Improving Comprehension With Think-Aloud Strategies: Modeling What Good Readers Do Book

Think aloud as you read from a novel, a textbook, or any kind of book and watch your students become confident, fluent readers! With this simple, powerful technique, you can show students how you use strategies such as inferring, visualizing, and summarizing. Finally, students can "see" what good readers do and apply it to their own reading process. Think alouds are great for struggling readers, because they make reading an active, social experience. Includes engaging activities like Open Mind, Fish Bowl, Thought Bubbles, Post its, and more. For use with Grades 3-8.

"With this book, Jeff Wilhelm gets to the heart of what it means to be a passionate teacher and reader, one who not only conveys to his students an enthusiasm for reading, but also shows them ways that they can comprehend, appreciate, and converse with texts of all kinds. Jeff's energy for teaching is palpable and infectious, yet the beauty of this book emanates from Jeff's ability to reveal the raw mechanics of the reading process both to his students and to us."--Cover, p. 4.