Lesson 3: Using Metacognitive Strategies in Reading Flashcards
Is the practice of thinking about your own thinking while reading.
Metacognitive Reading
It helps readers become aware of how they understand, interpret, and respond to a text.
Metacognitive Reading
purpose of metacognitive reading
to Iearn
Reading to become effective and efficient requires the readers to have a clear goal or purpose.
Reading Strategies
However there are other more deliberate steps to execute an effective reading, and we call them ________________.
Reading Strategies
3 Phases of Metacognitive Reading / Reading Strategies
- Pre-reading strategies
- During Reading Strategies (actual)
- Post Reading Strategies (after)
Previewing, Asking yourself what you already know, Posing question
Pre-reading strategies
Pausing to reflect, Questioning the author, Rereading to Clarify an idea.
During Reading Strategies (actual)
Summarizing the text, Answering questions posed before reading.
Post Reading Strategies (after)
It is a before reading activity that answers the question “why are you reading this text?”
Get a purpose
It is a before reading activity that think about what you already know about the topic.
Activate Prior Knowledge
It is a before reading activity that skim headings, subheadings, and key words.
Preview the text
It is a during reading activity that pause to reflect if the content makes sense.
Monitor Understanding
It is a during reading activity that ask “why”, “how” , and “what” to clarify and deepen comprehension.
Ask Questions
It is a during reading activity that if confused, re-read, slow down, or visualize what’s happening.
Use Fix- Up Strategies
It is a during reading activity that relate the text to personal experiences, other texts, or real world events.
Make Connections
It is an after reading activity that recall the key points of the reading.
Summarize
It is an after reading activity that think about how the reading met its purpose or helped you learn something.
Reflect
It is an after reading activity that consider the author’s message and whether It was effectively conveyed.
Evaluate
Knowledge and use of effective reading strategies to develop one’s metacognition.
Metacognition
Metacognition is being defined as “being conscious of one’s own mental process”
Gunning, 1996, p. 225
Metacognition includes the readers abilities:
- Reader to plan
- Revise
- Check
- Evaluate his / her unfolding understanding
- Monitor
2 Purpose of Metacognition Reading:
- Metacognitive Reading
- Independent Reading
Purpose: It aims to develop strategies to improve comprehension, monitor understanding, and regulate learning.
Metacognitive Reading
Characteristics :
- it involves self-questioning, reflection, & strategy adjustment
- requires conscious awareness of comprehension and problem solving
- can be done with or without external guidance.
Metacognitive Reading
Focus: The ability to read & understand text without teacher guidance ( can stand alone)
Independent Reading
Purpose: Encourages reading autonomy, fluency, enjoyment, and practice with various text.
Independent Reading
Characteristics:
- Typically done without constant self- monitoring or reflection on comprehension
- May be less strategic or intentional in nature
- can be more relax / Ieisurely, often chosen for personal interest.
Independent Reading
It involves active, intentional strategies to monitor & enhance understanding.
Metacognitive Reading
The 4 important metacognitive reading strategies
- Making connections
- Asking questions
- Monitoring and fix-up
- Synthesizing
It is an important metacognitive reading strategy (text to self, text to text, text to world) seeing the relatedness of what one reads with what he/she experiences, of a current text and a previous one, and of a text and a reality in the society.
Making connections
It is an important metacognitive reading strategy creating high level questions before, during, and after reading high level questions (application, synthesis, evaluation).
Asking questions
It is an important metacognitive reading strategy being conscious when one understands and when one does not understand what they are reading.
Monitoring and fix-up
It is an important metacognitive reading strategy putting one’s own insights and reflections together to show his/her understanding of a reading material.
Synthesizing
