The Think-Aloud method has be shown to improve information retention. The lesson plan contained within this site models for teachers how to model this strategy. There is a rubric included for assessment.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson is meant to model a Think Aloud. This strategy models good reading habits for readers: the teacher reads the text aloud and explains their thinking as they read. Duck for President by Doreen...

Young scholars make purposeful choices for their reading materials, thinking about their reasons for reading a book and using strategies to match books to their abilities.

Lesson which requires students to listen to The Tell-Tale Heart read aloud, answer prediction questions during the reading, and write written responses after. Excellent for beginning a mystery unit.

Using "Thunder Rose" by Jerdine Nolen, this lesson plan explores elements of tall tales. Included in the lesson plan is an overview, practice, objectives, resources, preparation, and more.

After reading a piece of math-related children's literature aloud, students pose and solve new problems by asking what-if questions about the events in the story.

Through a series of picture book read-alouds and journal entries, students engage in critical discussion of complex issues of race, class, and gender.

Students explore the distinction between the fiction story Bear Snores On and the nonfiction book Every Autumn Comes the Bear.