Think Aloud Planning Sheet

Directions for Full Credit: Use the think aloud strategy planning sheet below to plan your strategy instruction. Please submit
this completed template to Canvas with the reflection.

Name: Onyx Serratos

Strategy: generating questions and summarizing ideas
Content Area and ELA Standards:
-11-12.RL.5 Analyze how an author’s choices concerning how to structure specific parts of a text

contribute to its overall structure and meaning, as well as its aesthetic impact.

Objective:
Students will read and analyze Caged Bird by Maya Angelou
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Strategy Awareness & Explanation (Purpose for selecting the strategy)

How will provide students with a clear picture of the why and how?
I chose questions, predicting and summarizing because it holds an important role in how
poetry defines an era.

Strategy Demonstration & Modeling (Think Aloud)

How will you model, explain, practice, and reinforce the rules or procedures of the strategy?

What the Text Says What I Say What Comprehension Strategy

I Model

A free bird leaps This stanza raises a couple of -questions

on the back of the wind
and floats downstream
till the current ends
and dips his wing
in the orange sun rays
and dares to claim the sky.
questions, why a bird? What is -predicting
the point of the imagery? -summarizing
What's the significance of the
bird claiming the sky? Who do
you think she is talking about?

But a bird that stalks This stanza uses imagery but -question
down his narrow cage why is that important? What -summarizing
can seldom see through do you think the author means -inferences
his bars of rage
 his wings are clipped and by bars of rage? What do you
his feet are tied think is holding this bird back?
so he opens his throat to sing.

The caged bird sings This stanza, what do you think Questions
with a fearful trill the song of freedom is to the
of things unknown bird? Who is the bird? What's
but longed for still their song?
and his tune is heard
on the distant hill
for the caged bird
sings of freedom.

The free bird thinks of What is happening in this Questions

another breeze stanza? Why is it important?
and the trade winds soft
through the sighing trees
and the fat worms waiting on
a dawn bright lawn
and he names the sky his
own

But a caged bird stands on What is the significance of the -Questions

the grave of dreams bird being psychically -Inferences
his shadow shouts on a restricted but still able to sing?
nightmare scream
his wings are clipped and his
feet are tied
so he opens his throat to sing.

The caged bird sings What a “fearful trill” and why -questions
with a fearful trill is it relevant? Based on your -inferences
of things unknown knowledge what do you think -activating background
but longed for still
and his tune is heard this poem is based on? knowledge
on the distant hill
for the caged bird
sings of freedom.
Guided Practice
How will you have students practice the strategy with support?
Guided reading that

I plan on guiding students by asking them guiding questions and then providing them
examples on how to question, summarize, and predict. After each stanza I will
encourage the students to share their thoughts and ideas, while I walk around to check
their markings.

Strategy Application
How will students apply the strategy independently?

Students will apply their poem markings independently but as a class will share and
dialogue about their ideas on each stanza.

Reflection Write a 2-3 paragraph detailed reflection about your teaching experience based off your
own self-assessment.
● How did the structure (awareness & explanation, demonstration & modeling, guided practice,
application) help support your instruction and student learning?
● How does this strategy support learning in your discipline specifically?
● What were your strengths, and areas for growth (please consider both your planning and your
instruction of the strategy).

The structure helped support my student learning by modeling what I expect from my student leaving
no room for confusion.it also aids in their awareness of what we are reading and why it is important. It
was a mix of guided practice and application. It was the best option for showing students how to mark
up poetry and finding the message it's trying to convey.

This strategy is supportive in my discipline because students need guided practice on how to consume
different mediums. My strength was the questions and predicting because that is important in poetry.
It is beneficial to my students since this is a strategy they will carry for all of their lives.