The Think Aloud strategy allows the teacher to model how a good reader thinks about text while reading.  The process is fairly simple.  The teacher reads aloud from an appropriate book, and stops periodically to make predictions, clarify meaning, decode words, make personal connections, question the author, and summarize what has been read.  This explicit modeling of the reading strategies will benefit all students as they strive for deeper understanding of what they read.

Websites on Think Aloud:

Think Aloud Video

http://int.cysd.k12.pa.us/strategies/Reading/thinkaloud.htm

Greece Central School District Reading Strategies:  Think Aloud
http://www.greece.k12.ny.us/instruction/ela/6-12/Reading/Reading%20Strategies/thinkaloud.htm

Think Aloud Lesson Plan

http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=139

Thinking Aloud and Reading Comprehension

http://www.readingcenter.buffalo.edu/center/research/think.html

Using Think-Alouds to Improve Reading Comprehension

http://www.readingrockets.org/article/102

Think Aloud and Math

http://www.tantasqua.org/superintendent/Profdevelopment/etthinkalouds.html

FOR-PD's Reading Strategy of the Month:  Think Alouds
http://www.forpd.ucf.edu/strategies/stratthinkaloud.html