Thursday, September 27, 2007

Finding Important Information Think Aloud

Here is another think aloud focused on finding important information in an expository text. The book used is The Woods Scientist, by Stephen R. Swinburne. The video models strategies such as focusing on first and last sentences, re-reading for information connected to what is discussed in the first and last sentences, and re-reading to search for other possibly important information unrelated to the first and last sentences.

The video is in two parts. Here is the first part:



And here is part 2:

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