Stone Fox: Interactive Read-Aloud Think-Aloud Podcast.3rd Grade
Channel: Jennifer Jones
Date: 2012-03-13

In my 3rd grade reading group, we have been working on monitoring when we are reading and when we are thinking...and paying attention to the voice in our head that makes connections, predicts, infers, wonders, questions.  We also monitoring the spot in the text that made us think that and documenting both through a T-Chart labeled Text on the left and My Thinking on the right.  Through an interactive read-aloud/think-aloud format, we stop a lot and discuss what we are thinking, we give text and schema based justifications for our thinking and agree and disagree with each other's line of thinking based on evidence.  We use the word "because" a lot because this word alone reminds us that critical thinking is not about being right or wrong or mean or nice, it just about being able to explain your opinion and ideas with evidence and justification in a respectful learning environment.  You can reach me on my blog at helloliteracy.blogspot.com