Resources for Think-Alouds

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There is growing practical research and implementation ideas for using think-alouds. The following resources, many available in the Teacher Store, can help you implement these strategies into your reading instruction.

 

Professional Books

• The most comprehensive and on-point book of this nature is
  Improving Comprehension With Think-Aloud Strategies by Jeff Wilhelm (Scholastic, 2001).
• The most comprehensive and on-point book for teaching reading strategies through drama/action techniques is Action Strategies for Deepening Comprehension by Jeff Wilhelm (Scholastic, 2002).
• You Gotta BE the Book: Teaching Engaged and Reflective Reading With Adolescents, by Jeff Wilhelm (Teachers College Press, 1997), describes how think-alouds can be used as a teacher research and assessment technique that helps teachers, and how think-alouds can be used to teach readers.

Other books that make intelligent use of think-aloud strategies, among various other strategies, are:

• Teaching Reading in Middle School (Robb, Scholastic, 2000)
• Reading for Understanding (Shoenbach, Greenleaf, Cziko and Hurwitz, Jossey Bass, 1999)
• When Kids Can't Read: What Teachers Can Do (Beers, 2003, Heinemann)
• Strategies That Work (Harvey and Goudvis, Stenhouse, 2000).
  

Skill Building Books

• Short Reading Passages & Graphic Organizers to Build Comprehension (Grades 2–3)
  
• Short Reading Passages & Graphic Organizers to Build Comprehension (Grades 6–8)
  
• Short Reading Passages & Graphic Organizers to Build Comprehension (Grades 4–5)
  
• 24 Nonfiction Passages for Test Practice (Grades 4–5)
  
• 24 Nonfiction Passages for Test Practice (Grades 6–8)
• Week-by-Week Homework for Building Reading Comprehension and Fluency (Grades 3–6)
  

Student Books Sets

• Reading Comprehension Set (Grades K–1)
• Reading First: Comprehension (Grades 3–6)
  
  

Classroom Magazines

• StoryWorks (Grades 3–5)
• Scholastic News Sr. (Grades 5–6)
• Junior Scholastic (Grades 6–8)
  
  

 

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