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Reading Apprenticeship
The model helped students realize that reading is not a passive process.
The listener was prompting the student with phrases like, "What are you thinking about?"
Finding what works for you as an instructor and knowing what you want to model provides some confidence for the instructor.
I was confusing students by telling them they read, now they need to study, I need to help model that reading is not passive.
Sometimes my expert blindspot is so strong that I forget to do the obvious good moves while I'm modeling, so I have to really put myself in a student perspective so that I have a plan of what I want to model as good moves.
The instructor's model allowed the students to have permission to grapple with difficult processes.
The instructor felt uncomforatble!
Read aloud is not the same as a think aloud. In a think aloud the reading process is coming out. But you can read aloud fluidly without thinking or grappling with meaning.
There are different ways to think aloud for different goals, you may read aloud and think aloud at the same time, or you may read silently and think aloud only your extra thoughts.
You will change your think aloud depending on what your purpose is for doing the think aloud. Using it as a tool to model processes requires flexibility in how and what you model. It also takes forethought and planning.
Pre-Reading
(Rreading for Understanding 107)
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She definded words that she knew, like "simple"
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She organized the topic into two categories
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She very intentionally stopped to look at the figure
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She pulled prior knowledge from the "real world" like table sugar and connected technical terms
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She illuminated her process - these are the connections I hope students will make
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She is trying to share strategies with the students
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She utilizes pre-fixes and suffixes to make meaning
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She allows us a window into her process so that something that is not simple for us has a process
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She used body language that showed she was puzzling through the reading
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She showed a success through exclaiming "oh!" -- modeling that it is good to discover things as we read.
What were Theresa's Goals in her Video Think Aloud Model for students?
Lilit modeled planning a think aloud with the 4 dimensions in mind. (see p. 25 of Reading for Understanding)
Preparing to Model Think Aloud with your own Text
