Teacher Commentary
Teacher modeling of reading strategies is an important part of developing Reading Apprenticeship. Students should see you authentically “think-aloud” around the text. Be sure to include a variety of strategies including questions, meaning-making, connections, visualizations, chunking, and identification of key terms. As you read, you should annotate your text, and students should copy the same annotations on their own texts. They should then name the strategies and record them in this space. A document camera or overhead projector is useful for this task. Keep your model to 1-2 minutes. After you have modeled, students can move to greater independence by reading and annotating individually and then discussing with a partner.