Abstract of

“You Can Read This Text—I'll Show You How”: Interactive Comprehension Instruction

Diane Lapp

Douglas Fisher

Maria Grant

Shared reading with think-alouds provides adolescent students with the modeling they need to become successful readers and writers. This article provides a sample of this type of interactive comprehension instruction in a science classroom. The authors then focus on the dimensions of effective shared readings with think-alouds that can be used across content areas to develop students' comprehension of texts.

Abstract from Lapp, D., Fisher, D., & Grant, M. (2008, February). “You Can Read This Text—I'll Show You How”: Interactive Comprehension Instruction. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 51(5), 372–383. doi: 10.1598/JAAL.51.5.1