26C. 6625, Reading Rockets, Classroom Strategies: Think Alouds

Think-alouds have been described as “eavesdropping on someone’s thinking.” With this strategy, teachers verbalize aloud while reading a selection orally. During a think-aloud, you read a text aloud while verbalizing thoughts, predictions, questions, connections, and reflections. This helps students understand how to actively engage with the text, make inferences, and monitor their own comprehension.

This material includes reasons to use think-alouds, written directions for implementation, and videos demonstrating whole group and scaffolded think alouds.  Optional materials are linked.