Tell Me What You're Thinking

We're going to read Citizen chapter 1 (and maybe 2) together. You are going to practice a really important technique for developing critical thinking: a think aloud. 

A think aloud means how it sounds--actively posing questions and making inferences and observations while reading. This is yet another strategy in active reading.

Strategies for Think Alouds

• Concentrate on a few elements at most 
• Pause at each sentence
• Record ideas while writing