Teacher Feature: August 007

Maple Heights Teacher of the Year, Susan Jaroscak shares with us a literacy strategy she calls, Think Aloud - Teach Aloud.

Susan makes the Think-Aloud strategy successful in her classroom through deliberate and intentional use, reflection, spiraling strategies throughout instruction, revision, repetition, and authentic assessment.

Interested in learning more?

• Visit Read*Write*Think for articles and lesson plans: Building Reading Comprehension Through Think-Alouds

• Using Think-Alouds to Improve Reading Comprehension at Reading Rockets (younger readers)

• Using Think-Alouds from Literacy Matters (adolescent literacy)

• Math Think-Alouds at Scholastic

• Technology Tools that assist students to Think-Aloud - see our post on Digital Text.

Ask Susan a question or leave a comment to share how you use Think-Alouds in your classroom.