EDUC412

Jordan Johnson
Application Explication
Name of Strategy: Think Aloud
B-D-A/W? The thinking aloud strategy can be used before, during, and after a student reads. The
strategy can work as a before strategy if students are required to make predictions about what
might happen in a text based off of cover illustrations, a heading, or title. However, this strategy
is also very effective as a strategy for during student reading. It allows for students to follow
along while a teacher models their thinking process while they read, and then students can do the
same. Think-alouds can also be used after reading where students can discuss the thoughts they
have after the reading is through and how their thinking processes changed and the connections
that they made.
Verb Blurb: This reading strategy will give students the ability to hypothesize about a reading
and make predictions. It will also encourage them to read actively. Students will be able to think
in a metacognitive manner about their thinking while they are reading. Students will have the
opportunity to have a teachers thinking process modeled for them. Students will have the ability
to engage in discussion about their thinking with peers. Students will be able to think aloud while
reading. They will also have the ability to make connections from aspects of the reading to their
prior knowledge. Students will have the ability to verbalize confusing places in a text.

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Directions: Look at the title or heading of the passage below. Based on the title or heading, make
a prediction out loud about what you think the selection of text will be about. Then read the
section of text out loud and annotate it as you go. If you read a piece of text that you can connect
to something in you prior knowledge say out loud what you can connect it to. If you get
confused, vocalize why you are confused and what you are confused about in the text. Once you
have finished the section of text, summarize what you have just read and the connections that
you have made, or the parts of the text that confused you and why you think they may have done
so.

Rhetoric- The Art of Discourse

Rhetoric is the art of discourse, an art that aims to improve the capability of writers or speakers
to inform, persuade, or motivate particular audiences in specific situations. As a subject of formal
study and a productive civic practice, rhetoric has played a central role in the European
tradition. Its best known definition comes from Aristotle, who considers it a counterpart of both
logic and politics, and calls it "the faculty of observing in any given case the available means
of persuasion."
Rhetorics typically provide heuristics for understanding, discovering, and developing arguments
for particular situations, such as Aristotle's three persuasive audience appeals, logos, pathos,
and ethos. The five canons of rhetoric, which trace the traditional tasks in designing a persuasive
speech, were first codified in classical Rome: invention, arrangement, style, memory, and
delivery. Along with grammar and logic, rhetoric is one of the three ancient arts of discourse.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhetoric