Modeled Reading is an instructional practice in which the teacher models, verbally, to the students a reading process or strategy.
Modeled Reading includes:

• reading text aloud to students while they listen and observe
• demonstrating, through thinking aloud, the use of reading strategies, as well as pausing to discuss these strategies
• introducing students to strategies that proficient readers use
• engaging students as listeners while developing background knowledge, increasing comprehension skills, and fostering critical thinking

Modeled Writing is an instructional practice in which the teacher models, both visually and verbally, to the students a writing process or strategy.  Modeled Writing includes:

• introducing students to strategies that proficient writers use
• using other texts as models (e.g., professionally authored, teacher created or student created text)
• demonstrating, a writing process while students listen and observe
• verbalizing, by thinking aloud, the process that happens during the writing, related both to content, process, and craft.