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The content highlights the "think-aloud" strategy, particularly focusing on "text-to-world" connections, as a powerful pedagogical tool for enhancing students' critical thinking and reading comprehension skills.
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So today I'm going to do a text to world
connection and it's going to be a
difficult one since I'm really really
going to talk you through how I think
about this connection. So try thinking
along with this to yourselves while I
think about it out loud. The think aloud
is an um activity that has two purposes.
One, so children can hear a fluent
reader. She made 19 trips back into the
south. to so that they can learn how to
critically think through literature.
Clarissa Grimes, a fourth grade teacher
at Citizens Academy in Cleveland, Ohio,
models the think aloud strategy, a key
to increasing critical thinking and
reading comprehension. It makes
basically just everything so much
easier. Good reading strategies also
include predicting outcomes, cause and
effect, analyzing character and plot
setting and textto world connections.
How think aloud works is you spend 15
minutes to read. I was too deeply moved
by his words to clap. You stop at
appropriate points. So I'm a pretty good
reader. At the end you perform the skill
out loud. There was a part in there that
confused me.
So try thinking along with this to
yourselves while I think about it out
loud. Thinking through new material
requires connecting to the students
known world. Connections help you
understand people's motivations and how
those feelings affect the actions they
take. And today the reading selection
I'm doing is a non-fiction comment
article on the Gettysburg address that
Abraham Lincoln gave at the end of the
Civil War. Clarissa begins by walking
students through the steps of a text to
world connection. First text contains
something that activates your background
knowledge. Is a country? It is. It is.
Oh. So I'm going to give you a little
background knowledge. Okay. and the
rebels who think that they are not being
treated fairly. Second, you compare the
situation in the book to a situation
that is occurring in the world. I'm
going to be connecting one section, just
one section that's hard for me to
understand as a reader in this article
to what I've seen on the news in Libya.
It's now that she reads a short text.
When Lincoln was done, there was hardly
any applause. Then she begins the think
aloud process. The Gettysburg address is
considered to be one of the greatest
speeches in history, but no one clapped
after he gave it. That confuses me. How
many of you were slightly confused by
that? Be honest. Yeah. As a good reader,
I'm going to think about what I've seen
of the civil wars that are going on
right now in the world. So I know that I
can compare situations today to
situations that happened long long ago.
And the thing that makes you mad now are
the same things that are going to make
people mad in 200 years. Right?
Comparing helps me understand this text.
Whatever we don't understand,
um, she kind of walks us through it. The
final step of the text to world skill is
connecting actions to feelings. And I
see clips of people in Libya. I make you
watch the news and I watch it and you
see the
anger, but then there's always the
sadness left over because even though
they have different
opinions, they're all still Libyans. I'm
going to connect that to these people
listening to this Gettysburg address on
this battlefield. They like these
Libyans are thinking about all those who
died on that field. What I read in this
text was an expression of
sadness, just like what I saw on the TV
was an expression of sadness. So that's
my connection. It's cool to hear her
opinion. I match up what she's thinking
and what and what I think. Makes it easy
for us because she'll do it herself and
then she'll tell us to do it. I cannot
stress this enough. The most important
part is how it helps you understand what
you read. Critical analysis of both the
text they're reading and the world in
which they exist. That's how you want
them thinking. Her reading has come a
long way with the help of Miss Grimes.
She's taught her different techniques.
When I look at the fluency um reports,
her numbers have skyrocketed. Miss
Grimes is the greatest teacher ever. She
gives us different strategies to make
our reading and writing better.
to do a think aloud. Well, one, do it
quick. Make a skill focus. Have the
steps on the board behind you. Do it
exactly the way you want them to be able
to perform the skill once they are
proficient at it. Teach them how to
think through doing this act so that
when they go to do it, they already have
down. If I want them to know it, then I
got to show it. Come on, Socrates. This
isn't college. This isn't ancient
Greece. We can't walk around in gardens
all day. I don't have time for that.
They have a lot to learn. They do it
though. Put them in toas and slippers.
They think it was awesome. There's no
better reason to really just put on your
full armor, right? Go out your house
every day. Ready to do war. And I'm
ready. I will battle for my kids to
learn. Do what it takes, man. So, and
there's just no better reason than
education. And it's a job that I
actually feel really motivated to do
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