I Read It, but I Don't Get It by Cris Tovani 3

                                                              Chapter 3

**WEEDS**
"Mental modeling is an even better way way to help students understand the text. When teachers make invisible mental process visible, they arm young readers with powerful weapons." (27)

Steps to thinking out loud:
1. Select a short piece of text
2. Foresee difficulty
3. Read the text out loud and stop to share your thinking
4. Point out the words in the text that trigger your thinking

"Good readers are flexible in their thinking and use different strategies for different types of reading. Good readers perceive reading as something they will do for their entire life, not just to pass a class." (35)

**WEEDS**
None!

**BASKET**
I know for certain that mental modeling works because on 10/6/10 the class was asked to pair off into groups of two and model the steps that we used to comprehend the meaning of our chosen poems. I learned a lot from my classmates and I am convinced that if I did this for a secondary school class, they wold be able to develop their reading comprehension skills.