T: Step 3 "state your purpose" I use this strategy often. At my school, we work really hard on enforcing the PASS skills. To do so effectively, you must state your purpose. Introduce the story, tell the students the spelling words for the week from this story, teach a specific moral or lesson to be learned from the story, and check for understanding after the story.
Step 8: Reinforce the think aloud w/ follow up lessons by using the Teacher does/student watches. One follow up lesson I do is fill in the blank. My students have a lot of trouble with closure. I will read the sentence and say "blank" where the word is missing. I ask the students to repeat what I just said. I then ask the students to predict what might fit in that sentence, then which word from the list is the same or close to the same. After continuous modeling, the students usually pick up on the fluency and comprehension of the lesson.
Michelle Miller
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I try to relate my spelling words to whatever subject we are studying to have more connection to the purpose. For example: this month is black history month. My students were give spelling words related to their readings. So when we are doing the reading assignment, I can relate things back and forth to each other. It really seems to help to be able to connect all the subjects together.
I like the idea of having them predict what makes sense in the blank and then to see if they can find a word in the list that is the same or close to the same because now you are not only addressing comprehension, but word recognition strategies and vocabulary as well.
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