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[1] Each lesson in the Teacher’sEdition presents Think Alouds. [2] Think Alouds research has demonstrated that theyare one of the best methods of mentoring studentsinto understanding the meanings of words, strategies to use, and word learning principles (Block &Israel, 2004; Galda, 1998). Students learn to fill gapsin knowledge with text-bound inferring, resulting inincreased metacognition, and ability to monitortheir own learning during independent reading.(Block & Israel, 2002; Baumann, 1992; Seifert-Kessel & Jones, 1992; Payne & Manning, 1992) [3] Makes the word-learning process visible and explicit. [0] 
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