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: Patrick Nobby

Strategy: Prewrite Questions
Content Area and ELA Standards: History, 8.C2.2 Explain specific roles, rights, and responsibilities of
people in a society
Objective: Utilize BDA strategy of pre-write questions on article explaining voting process and history
behind voting in the US.
:*You may use bullet points if desired in the blue sections below*
Article: https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/articles/teaching-content/voting-united-states/

Strategy Awareness & Explanation (Purpose for selecting the strategy)

The selected strategy will allow students to come up with an idea of what the article is before they read
it, which then allows not only the students to practice predictive knowledge, but in many instances
gives the teacher an idea of prior knowledge of the topic at hand.

Strategy Demonstration & Modeling (Think Aloud)

I will model the strategy by asking students to first watch me come up with a question, answer is, then
find the correct answer in the document. I will then lead students through the same process with a
question of their own. Finally, I will assign students to make up three more questions that are then
answered in the same way, which will be what they turn in for the assignment, along with a single
paragraph explaining how they came up with the questions and answers.

What the Text Says What I Say What Comprehension Strategy

I Model

In most cases, people vote This sentence would be the answer to Prewrite questions
by machine in private how people vote exactly.
voting booths

People can also vote by Same as before Prewrite questions

mail;
Guided Practice
The students will follow some examples given in the video, then read the rest of the article themselves,
along with one guided section of the article that they have the opportunity to practice with, meaning I
model the strategy, then lead them through it utilizing another example.

Strategy Application
Students will apply the strategy independently during the video while paused, and will essentially copy
the actions after the walkthrough performed by the teacher.

Reflection Write a 2-3 paragraph detailed reflection about your teaching experience based off your
own self-assessment.

The lesson went fairly easily, as the strategy is not a difficult one. The structure was helpful as it
provided a framework through which to give the lesson. Simply in following the manner in which a bda
and think aloud is performed, the lesson came naturally. The strategy is helpful specifically in history
versus say science or math as the subject lends itself to inquiry and exploration, so creating guided
questions before reading allows the students to search for those created guidelines. In mathematics,
information is rarely so superfluous to require such a strategy.
My personally strengths for this sort of lesson were largely that I am able to speak fluidly, and that the
subject itself lends so well to the strategy. We must pick the actual strategy that fits our topic, rather
than one that we happen to like or be comfortable with. My weakness was in fact that I am not as
comfortable with this sort of strategy, as I generally like increased student participation along with my
own, rather than a digital format in which I am not able to create direct interaction. This is something
for me to work on.

Screencast: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1O5f-
tZeue1yuf0DfOp8gjB5I_21RhqLG/view