Thinking Aloud in a Fluency Lesson

Making meaning from a text isn’t automatic — it’s a skill that needs to be modeled, practiced, and explicitly taught. In this video, third grade teacher Julie Turner uses a strategy called a think-aloud to do exactly that, narrating her thought process out loud as she works through a text with her students. By making her thinking visible, she gives her third graders a clear model of what skilled readers do — and a roadmap to comprehension. (From our sister site, Reading Universe(opens in a new window))