Our group has decided to begin our study of various successful reading strategies with "Think Aloud". an umbrella method for many specific skills. This method has a history of success.
"As the title implies, a think aloud is a great strategy to use to slow down the reading process and let students get a good look at how skilled readers construct meaning from a text. Many of us developed our skills as readers implicitly, by simply doing a lot of reading of all sorts of texts; after all, reading is a passion for us. Therefore, when we teach reading at the secondary level, we need to keep in mind that we must take what we know and do implicitly and make it explicit for our students, especially for our struggling readers."
Mr.Corwin and Ms.Alcantara have recently had some good results using Think Aloud activities with Edgar Allan Poe's short story, "The Black Cat". Mr. Hudson will will be teaching this story next week to his Junior Class (with some extra emphasis on Poe's difficult vocabulary).
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