Improving Comprehension with Think Aloud Strategies (Second Edition): Modeling What Good Readers Do

Provides teachers with many motivating ideas that energize students and improve comprehension with think aloud strategies before, during, and after reading.

Deepen the comprehension and engagement of every student you teach with this powerful second edition of Wilhelm's ground-breaking work in helping readers learn to notice and name what they are thinking, feeling, and doing as they read. Brief, dynamic lessons, practical activities, classroom scenarios, and student work samples help you to:

• monitor comprehension;
• enhance instruction in whole-group, small-group, and one-on-one settings;
• model the reading strategies that expert readers use;
• and encourage students to engage visually, emotionally, and intellectually with texts in a variety of genres.

Includes video footage that allows you to see teachers and students in action as they use think-aloud strategies!

Jeff Wilhelm is the author of Improving Comprehension with Think Aloud Strategies (Scholastic) You Gotta BE the Book (Teachers College Press) and several other books. He has taught middle school and high school and currently teaches in the Professional Development Network at the University of Maine Writing Project. He regularly presents at national and international conferences. This is the second book in his Action Strategies for Readers series for Scholastic.