Think Aloud Planning Sheet

Directions for Full Credit: Use the think aloud strategy planning sheet below to plan your strategy instruction. Please submit
this completed template to Canvas with the reflection.

Name: Chalsey Slaughterbeck

Strategy: Graphic Organizer (during)
Content Area and ELA Standards: HS.SP1.2 Analyze change and continuity in historical eras.
HS.SP1.3 Evaluate the significance of past events as they relate to their own lives and the world.

11-12.SL.4 Present information, findings, and supporting evidence in an organized, developed style
appropriate to purpose, audience, and task, allowing listeners to follow the speaker's line of reasoning,
message, and any alternative perspectives.

Objective: Students will be able to analyze and communicate the effect the decade of the 80s has
on modern day society

Students will be able to analyze cultural trends that occured in the 80s and synthesize what they

have learned into a writing of their choice.

:*You may use bullet points if desired in the blue sections below*

Strategy Awareness & Explanation (Purpose for selecting the strategy)

How will provide students with a clear picture of the why and how?
● I decided to provide a graphic organizer to the students as they work through the
module because it will help them organize their thoughts as they work through
the module
● Each column of the graphic organizer asks the students to think about the
information they know, what they are learning, and how this all connects to the
essential question that is placed at the top of the graphic organizer for students to
refer to
● They are simultaneously learning about something in the past and connecting that
knowledge to what they currently experience in their everyday lives.
Strategy Demonstration & Modeling (Think Aloud)
How will you model, explain, practice, and reinforce the rules or procedures of the strategy?

What the Text Says What I Say What Comprehension Strategy

I Model

“A new leader came into power in “This part makes me ask all sorts of Asking questions
1933. He was head of the National questions. Was Hitler elected the
Socialist, or Nazi party. head, like we elect presidents? Or was
he born into a family of leaders like a
 king and queen.”

“Depicted a generation of “I can totally relate to this part Making connections

young men and women who
were plagued with anxiety and
self-doubt. They were
successful, but weren’t sure
they were happy”
because I myself feel these
emotions sometimes. As
someone in their 20s, there is
so much pressure to be
successful at a young age that I
don’t know whether or not
that success is going to truly
make me happy.”

Guided Practice
How will you have students practice the strategy with support?
● The students will practice this strategy with support because they will have the
instructor modeling what to do. If they are uncertain of what to put in a certain
category or how to move forward, they can refer back to this video
● I will embed the screencast of myself filling out the graphic organizer so that the
students have access to it during the module

Strategy Application
How will students apply the strategy independently?

● Students can apply this strategy independently because they will start to make
 connections with what they learn to things they’ve experienced
● This activity has students making connections with the past, present, and the
future which is a standard for history
● This activity also allows students to think about how the actions of people have a
major effect on society and culture altogether, which is their essential question

Reflection Write a 2-3 paragraph detailed reflection about your teaching experience based off your
own self-assessment.
● How did the structure (awareness & explanation, demonstration & modeling, guided practice,
application) help support your instruction and student learning?
● How does this strategy support learning in your discipline specifically?
● What were your strengths, and areas for growth (please consider both your planning and your
instruction of the strategy).

This strategy helps support learning in my discipline because it guides students through different
resources and takes them through the different stages of learning. The first column asks the students
to connect the new topic with their prior knowledge. The second column asks students to synthesize
what they’re learning from the resources they are exploring into the graphic organizer. The third
column asks students to think about each topic in connection with the others, so that it makes a bigger
impact on their learning and allows students to start thinking about history in terms of connections.
The last column then asks students to connect everything they have learned with the essential
question of the module.

Link to lesson:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1UyIvw88cztTF4aie6p4q5hBhg_I4z
Jm8kVVYOhwhtTA/edit?usp=sharing

Link to graphic organizer:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IQNgQ0ZYIs17EbdPUXstVje1rIzOsB
1lQH8z2wmR9G0/edit?usp=sharing