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12Think Aloud as You Write in Front of your Students!
Using the ideas you have previously generated in a graphic
organizer, show students how to take the brainstormed
ideas and compose sentences and paragraphs with supporting
ideas that are well connected to the central idea of the
writing. Think aloud about your thought process, including:
• making decisions about which ideas to use and which ideas are not connected;
• how to get that first sentence started!
• how to change a phrase into a sentence;
• practicing the sound of a sentence before writing it;
• not knowing how to spell a word and deciding to look it up later;
• adding sentences that are not on the graphic organizer;
• writing a sentence, then deciding you don’t like it and crossing it out;
• adding a word that you accidentally skipped;
• thinking about whether the idea or sentence is really connected to the one
before it;
• how to modify a sentence to make it connect to the sentence before it;
• adding transitional words to connect sentences and paragraphs
• how to conclude your writing
Moving from a graphic organizer to a written draft is not a natural process for
many children. You may have to model this many times before children
understand how you take individual phrases and ideas and turn them into
sentences that flow together to communicate your main argument.
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