Sample Think Aloud Summary

Student's Name: ___________________________________ Date: _______________
Title and page of passages read: ____________________________________

Rating Scale:     No Evidence = 1    Occasionally = 2    Often = 3

Comprehension

__ restates text in own words

__ restates text with words from passage

__ adds own appropriate ideas to text

__ predicts ideas in text

__ makes inferences and supports them

__ evaluates ideas in text

__ rereads

__ notes key words and unknown words

__ comments on passage or paragraph comprehension

__ comments on sentence comprehension

__ comments on word comprehension

__ comments on personal or related experiences

__ notices and comments on text features and writing style

Other Observations