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Think Aloud/Public Thinking

This activity provides a way to teach thinking skills through modelling.

Strategies/Skills Used

Reading Strategy 1: Access background information.
Reading Strategy 2: Predict what will be learned or what will happen.
Reading Strategy 3: Figure out unknown words.
Reading Strategy 4: Self-monitor and self-correct.
Reading Strategy 5: Make mental pictures.
Reading Strategy 6: Connect what you read with what you already know.
Reading Strategy 7: Determine the most important ideas and events and the relationship between them.
Reading Strategy 8: Extract information from text, charts, graphs, maps and illustrations.
Reading Strategy 9: Identify and interpret literary elements in different genres.
Reading Strategy 10: Summarize what has been read.
Reading Strategy 11: Make inferences and draw conclusions.
Reading Strategy 12: Reflect and respond.

teaching-the-activity-1(1) Verbalize your own reading strategies out loud while reading.

(2) Provide opportunities for students to develop and verbalize metacognitive strategies. This teaches students to monitor their own thinking and improve their reading comprehension.

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