Think Aloud Reading Strategy
Today’s strategy for our Reading Comprehension Toolkit was the “Think Aloud” strategy. I demonstrated the strategy while reading aloud a part of chapter 11 of Treasure Island. After the demonstration, the crews got together to try the technique out on their own. Sometimes you just have to stop reading the words on the page and think aloud about what is going on in the story.
Crews also added booty to their ledgers for each purple word on their Word Choice Revision writing assignment. No writing assignments turned in late will receive any purple words.
We reviewed the chapter summaries through chapter 10 so everyone should be up to date on what is going on. We also covered all of the characters. Anyone who does not have the study guide completed through chapter 10 needs to make sure the get with someone who was in class today, because we covered it all.
The root word for today was, Ex, which means out, former, or entirely. We came up with lots of example words such as exit, explain, and example. Because all of the words we came up with use ex as a prefix, Mrs. Scales reminded us to add it to both our root word glossary and our list of prefixes. Tomorrow we have the first root word quiz of the grading period. It will cover root words #38 – 46.
The Daily Language Workout Sentence for the day was:
mt vesuvius the only active volcano in Europe erupted and completely buried the city of pompeii italy in C.E. 79.
The errors to look for in this sentence include; Comma (Appositives and Addresses), Spelling, Capitalization, Period.