Section 4: Knowledge of Literacy Instruction and Assessment
Characteristics of Various Types of Reading Assessment

Think-Aloud

This is a strategy in which the teacher states aloud what he or she is thinking then asks his or her students to model this behavior. Listening to a student's think-aloud allows teachers to capture a student's ideas about a text during the reading process.

Click on the following links to read more about think-alouds.

http://www.readingrockets.org/article/102

http://www.adlit.org/strategies/22735