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*again, no laptop.

I think the strategies I overused we making inferences, but I think I wanted to overuse them because so many of my students truggled with this particular skill on the standardized tests.  I wanted to show them that they do this skill naturally everyday, and that they can also do this when reading.
I remember when I had students use the note-taking symbols, and I stopped. I think that I would like to incorporate them again this yeart when reading, so that kids have a go-to visual that is not intimidating and reminds them of the strategy to use for that purpose during their reading.

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*I forgot my laptop at home.  Totally throwing me off.

Think alouds allow students to dig deeper into areas of text.  Some students will forever skim the surface and zip right through a book, never stopping to consider important areas.  Others need to slow down and focus on the "juicy stopping spot" in order to grasp the overall comprehension of the text.  Think alouds are beneficial for everyone on different levels.

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Lora Neumann

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Task #2: From my own experience with read alouds, the most overused strategies are asking questions, making inferences, and monitoring and clarifying.  The most underused strategies are synthesizing and author's purpose. The strategies I would like to  incorporate more this year are synthesizing and author's purpose. 

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Task #2: From my own experience with read alouds, the most overused strategies are asking questions, making inferences, and monitoring and clarifying.  The most underused strategies are synthesizing and author's purpose. The strategies I would like to  incorporate more this year are synthesizing and author's purpose. 

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Lora Neumann

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Task#2: Based on my experience with think alouds, the strategies I overuse are making predictions and asking questions. The strategies I underuse are synthesizing and understanding author's purpose. The five areas I want to incorporate more of this school year are  connect personally, visualize, synthesize, author's purpose, and monitoring and clarifying beacuse it will beneift my students to have a variety of strategies modeled for them so they can add them to their strategy tool belts! 

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Task#2: Based on my experience with think alouds, the strategies I overuse are making predictions and asking questions. The strategies I underuse are synthesizing and understanding author's purpose. The five areas I want to incorporate more of this school year are  connect personally, visualize, synthesize, author's purpose, and monitoring and clarifying beacuse it will beneift my students to have a variety of strategies modeled for them so they can add them to their strategy tool belts! 

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-Lacey Thibodeaux

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There are two strategies for sure that I overused. Asking questions and making Inferences. I feel like those are the easiest to incorporate and especially easy to use if you haven't planned out your stopping points during your Think Alouds while reading. There are two strategies that I know I need to utilize more in my reading think alouds and they are synthesizing and author's purpose. I want to work on adding more of these strategies into my think alouds this year. I will definitely be planing ahead more of my read alouds to make sure that I am incorporating them.

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Task #2
Based on what I've done in my class, the strategies I've overused were prediction and visualization.  I feel that synthesizing and author's purpose are 2 strategies that I didn't use much at all.
Some of the strategies I want to incorporate are synthesizing, and author's purpose because I was not proficient using these skills. Also, I want to incorporate monitoring as well as clarifying so they can monitor their own understanding and when they encounter trouble spots, they are aware and make adjustments.
Tammy Banks too!

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Think alouds are great for teachers to model, guide, and coach students  on our thought processes with comprehension being the goal.  Teachers can model thinking aloud in reading groups, in conferences, and even in content area instruction as well.

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Think alouds are great for teachers to model, guide, and coach students  on our thought processes with comprehension being the goal.  Teachers can model thinking aloud in reading groups, in conferences, and even in content area instruction as well.

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(pgs.9&10)

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Think alouds requires the reader to stop periodically and reflect on how the text is being processed and understood.(pg.6)
Tammy Banks too!

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Think alouds create an amazing opportunity for students to not only learn and practice various comprehension strategies, but it allows students to monitor their own comprehension. As the facilitator to the think aloud we are able to model for students how a good reader works through the text and uses the comprehension strategies and then we guide the students by predetermining places in the text where students are able to practice the same strategy. This allows us to coach them independently in their own text to ensure that they are successful using the strategy!
"The overall notion of the gradual release of responsibility is to progress in a cyclical and fluid fashion from teachers holding the primarily instructional role to students holding the primary responsibility for their learning."(page 15)

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Task#1: Think alouds impact reading comprehension in the classroom because they require students to, "Verbally express their normal covert mental processes when constructing meaning from a text."(pg. 8) This verbal expression deepens comprehension as they, "Question the text, wonder about it, slow down, and reread." (pg. 9

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Task#1: Think alouds impact reading comprehension in the classroom because they require students to, "Verbally express their normal covert mental processes when constructing meaning from a text."(pg. 8) This verbal expression deepens comprehension as they, "Question the text, wonder about it, slow down, and reread." (pg. 9

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-Lacey Thibodeaux

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Read the first chapter of Think Big with Think Alouds. Write about how think alouds impact reading comprehension in the classroom. Cite any research as needed. Be sure to add your name to your post.

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Read the second chapter of Think Big with Think Alouds. Reflect on your own experience with think alouds. What strategies do you think were overused? What strategies were underused? Which of the five areas do you want to incorporate more of this school year and why? Be sure to add your name to your post.