10-second review: What are some examples of modeling reading skills and strategies? “The think-aloud is a technique by which the individual voices her or his thoughts during the performance of a task…. …the think-aloud has been used to provide information about user cognition and processing during task performance or problem solving.”
Source: A Kymes. Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy (March 2005), 493.
Comment: Instruction in the think-aloud strategy must be modeled. Teachers read passages aloud and tell what they are thinking as they read. I don’t know about trying this strategy with chapters or short stories or novels. Identifying difficult passages and modeling how teachers would read them seems to be the best use of the strategy. In short, keep it short. RayS.
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