Strategy 6: Think Aloud

The think aloud strategy would help my students to parse through difficult texts filled with music related jargon.  I do not imagine that my students would get the opportunity to read many fiction texts in my class, so I find many of the reading strategies would not work in my classroom.  Think aloud would help me to assess my students' understanding of the texts while we are reading them in class and would help me to identify students who were struggling.  Thus this reading strategy would be a great way to help gauge critical reading abilities.