Thinking Aloud about Digital Pictures. How to Promote Reading Comprehension in Teacher Education

The chapter illustrates the application of the metacognitive teaching technique called Think Aloud to the reading of picto-rial narratives to develop reading comprehension processes from preschool to early elementary school.Starting from the analysis of the main comprehension pro-cesses involved in reading of texts conveyed by different me-dia, it suggests the suitability of some high quality texts in dig-itized format ‒ such as the narratives in wordless picture books ‒ which, rarely present in school libraries, are instead available on the Internet. These are published both as a preview and as a complete version. The training proposal described can be identified as a work-shop for preschool and primary school teacher education.