Think Alouds
The
purpose of think alouds is to model for students the thought process that takes
place when difficult material is presented. Teachers verbalize their thoughts
while they read orally. This helps students understand comprehension strategies
better because they can see how the mind can respond to thinking through
trouble spots. In turn, think alouds can help the students construct meaning
from the text. A good example of how to use think alouds would be to preview a
chapter by looking at titles, subtitles, graphic organizers, and pictures to
get an overall view of what the chapter is going to be about. It might include
making predictions, creating mental pictures, connecting information to prior
knowledge, creating analogies, and verbalizing obstacles as well as strategies
to overcome obstacles while reading science material. I plan on using this strategy
for my struggling readers.
Jig Saw
The
purpose of jig saw is to help students with texts that have difficult
vocabulary. This struggling reader strategy involves forming two groups of
students: the home group and the expert group. Students start off by being in
the home groups of four or five at the introduction of the lesson. Then the
groups separate, and each member moves to one of four or expert groups where
they read, study, and discuss a certain text passage, article or topic. The
students return to their home groups and each member either teachers the others
what they learned.
This tool will be great to use with
difficult text. As a teacher I can locate reading passages with varying reading
levels to allow my ELLs and other low level readers to participate fully. My students will gain the knowledge they need
to bring back to their home groups through discussion in the expert groups.
This is also another tool that can be used to gauge the reading comprehension
of my students.
Both of these strategies can be used for struggling readers.
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