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Callison: I'm Kim Callison.

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I'm the coordinator
of elementary reading

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in Anne Arundel County
Public Schools, in Maryland.

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The thinkaloud is a strategy

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that shows learners
what is going

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on in someone else's thinking.

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It's making your thinking public
and problem solving public.

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So I am explicitly demonstrating
for students how to go

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about solving their problem.

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Callison: I'm wondering, "Did
I remember who Lupita was?"

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I'm thinking, "Do I
remember who Lupita was?"

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So good readers sometimes
have to go back and look.

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Oh, Lupita was her
little sister.

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Right?

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Student: Yes.

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Callison: That's right.

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"So she went back
to say she was going

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to teach Lupita a new word."

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And you're thinking in your
head, "What's that word?"

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I'm going to make a
connection about this one.

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[Making Connections]

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Callison: In my mind,
I remember when I...

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Callison: "What's hopscotch?"

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Good point.

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Hopscotch is a game, right
here, that is written

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on the sidewalk, with chalk.

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And when I was a teacher
here, I used to take the kids

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out for recess, and we
would draw hopscotch,

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and you would hop on it.

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And you try to hop
right on the numbers

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without putting your
feet on the lines.

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Have any of you played
hopscotch?

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[Students raise hands]

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Callison: Oh good, 
you do know that.

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Student: I tried. But I did it.
Callison: And you did it.

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So that was made a connection. 
And you did, too.

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I like the way you're
making sense of the story.

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[Predicting]

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Callison: I'm thinking
she's liking school.

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I'm predicting good things are
going to happen for this girl.

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I'm predicting that.

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Student: She's going
to learn English.

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Callison: I think she is.

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When using thinkaloud with
narrative or expository text,

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there are many similarities.

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However, there are
some differences.

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Again, depending on
the text you're using

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and the age group you're
using, you would change

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up your strategies and your
timing for your thinkalouds.

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Callison: What does
a nonfiction book mean?

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Allison?

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Allison: It gives
you information.

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Callison: Okay.

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It gives you information.

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What were you going
to say, Demani?

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Demani: Nonfiction is real.

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Callison: It's real.

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So I'm going to share with
you a book that is real.

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And what attracted me about this
book is the title, first of all:

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"Orangutans Are Ticklish."

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[Students giggle]

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Callison: Don't you
just love that picture?

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Students: Yes.

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Callison: So I'm going to be
thinking in my head, "Facts."

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That gives me a clue doesn't it?

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That it's real, that it's real.

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Callison: With both texts,
narrative or nonfiction,

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you can clarify certain
vocabulary

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that we are not sure of.

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So when you are reading out
loud and we come across a word

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that we are sure that
the students do not know,

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or a concept that isn't
familiar to these students,

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I can stop for a
minute and say, "Wow,

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I am really not sure
what that's all about"

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or "I am not sure
about that word."

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Callison: "The
kangaroo's hop is called"--

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here's a new word I never
knew-- "a saltation."

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A saltation.

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So I have to think,
"What is a saltation?"

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I'm not sure what that
is, so I need to read on.

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"That means that the
animal hops with two feet,

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both pushing off the
ground at the same time.

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Kangaroos can't hop backwards"--
that's an interesting fact--

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"but they can hop forward as
fast as 30 miles per hour."

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Student: Cool.

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Callison: The benefits
for students

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when you're using
a thinkaloud is

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that the students really are--
everything's out in the open.

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Students aren't trying
to guess what's going on.

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Many times, students, when
they are trying to understand,

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they really don't know
what "understand" means,

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when we say, "Do
you understand?"

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But they really don't
have that vocabulary

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to say, "I don't understand."

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So they are actually seeing
what a teacher is doing

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and putting some
vocabulary to it

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and helping them build
that deeper meaning.

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