Think Aloud is a reading strategy designed to model the way good readers “think through” a text to understand it. It’s often used for remediation in middle and high school classrooms.

Greece Central School District in North Greece, New York, has established a rich repository of instructional strategies and resources, and Think Aloud is one of them.

From the site:

Many of us developed our skills as readers implicitly, by simply doing a lot of reading of all sorts of texts; after all, reading is a passion for us. Therefore, when we teach reading at the secondary level, we need to keep in mind that we must take what we know and do implicitly and make it explicit for our students, especially for our struggling readers.

This strategy underscores the importance of modeling reading for our students. When I begin “The Fall of the House of Usher,” I use this approach because I know Poe’s style intimidates readers — sometimes even strong readers. It help to pause and think now and then, to reflect and predict. By the time the house collapses, students are comfortable using this approach on their own.

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