Teacher Commentary

Use the same copy of the text that you used for your Think-Aloud model, so students can see your original thinking. This reinforces the idea that a second read can lead to a deeper understanding. The first time we read this text, we focused on understanding the text through metacognitive strategies. The second time–this time– we read with a purpose of identifying important information that we might use as evidence later. The more times a student works with a text, the more chances they have to understand it and gain new knowledge.