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Melanie Duddy is a Reading Specialist with the Platte County R3 school district in Missouri, currently completing her Ed.S. in Reading through Arkansas State University.

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Molly Ness Virtual Event for MLA

by Sarah Valter

Think alouds are a practice many of us embrace in theory but struggle with in practice. The art of articulating your thoughts to advance the comprehension of young readers may seem daunting, but no one makes this practice more accessible than Dr. Molly Ness. In a little more than an hour, Dr. Ness brought this practice–both the theory and the application–to a virtual audience of Missouri Literacy Association members and colleagues in September.

The entire presentation was full of helpful information and practical tips, but for those who missed this event here are just a few:

When teachers say we are teaching comprehension, we are often actually just assessing students’ understanding of a text.

Think alouds are an evidence-based approach to teaching and improving comprehension.

Think alouds must be planned in advance, using a high quality text that will prompt authentic thinking from the teacher and engagement from a group of young learners.

Think alouds involve a teacher intentionally modeling his or her thoughts throughout a text, bringing in a broad range of comprehension

strategies to demonstrate the metacognitive work that readers must do.

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Missouri Literacy Association is grateful to Dr. Ness for sharing her passion and expertise, and appreciate the audience who came to learn with us. You can learn more about Dr. Ness and her work at www.drmollyness.com or by listening to her podcast, End Book Deserts and following her work with the Coalition for Literacy Equity.

If you want to make sure you don’t miss future MLA events, please make sure to join MLA and follow us on social media! Coming soon: An Evening of Book Tasting. Look for details at mla31.wildapricot.com in the coming weeks!

 

 

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