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Read Aloud Talk Aloud for Reading Talk Aloud for Writing Think Aloud Composing Think Aloud Hint: Reading aloud to students to give additional subject Information Hint: Reading aloud to children to explain author’s purpose; text features, text structures, vocabulary Hint: Mentor Texts-how can we use how an author writes to help us with our writing. Explain the attributes of the text that helped you as a reader. (think text features/structures) Hint: Modeling/sharing your thinking about Comprehension Strategies: Making Connections; Visualizing; Inferring; Questioning; Determining Importance; Synthesizing… Hint: Modeling how you put together a piece of writing, e.g. a thank you letter, a journal entry, paragraph conventions, expository/persuasive/narrative writing, etc. In PWIM using student sentences to construct a paragraph. How To: How To: How To: How To: How To: Connect to the curriculum Connect to past learning or future content Connect to past learning or future content Introduce the strategy. Include introductory statement about what students will be learning to do and a brief explanation of why or how the concept, process, skill, or strategy will be useful to them as readers. Construct a Introduce the purpose of your writing and connect to past or future learning. Activate student listening Activate student listening Activate student listening “listen for how I…” Read aloud the text you have selected. Activate student listening. Read your writing. Read Passage to students Read Passage to students Read Passage to students Model and demonstrate application of the strategy. Describe your thinking and actions as you apply the strategy. Share your model with your students explaining your thinking on how you wrote the piece. Elicit responses from students Talk about what appealed to you “I liked how the author helped me by using…”(list on anchor chart) “I liked how the author helped me by using…”(refer to anchor chart). “Now, I am going to write, and share my thinking…” Work with your students to practice this strategy. You might create a paragraph with your students as a group. Application activity Student Application (lead students to do their own talk aloud) Should lead students to find a mentor text, write their own model text, identifying attributes Students practice and apply the strategy independently. Students independently practice and your teaching to their own writing Mary H. Bishop, Lezlie Goudie-Cloutier 2011 Based on the work of Dr. Emily Calhoun
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