Metacognition

=Instructions:= Add whatever you want to Strategies, Activities, Informal Assessment and Formal Assessment. Start by clicking "edit page" and then it is like a word processor. If you want to change the wording of what has been already written, treat it like your own text and change it. That is, if you have a more explicit way of saying something, or want to add more and change the wording, just do so. We will be able to track what has been changed, so we can discuss any discrepancies (let's not worry about "hurt feelings" here--this is academic meaning negotiation, and important for critical thinking!!). When you add something, put your initials in parentheses behind it. That will help us to negotiate meaning.

Reading Strategies
comprehension monitoring: ignore and read on, suspend judgment, form a tentatve hypothese, reread the current sentence(s), reread the previous context, and go to an expert source thinking about the whole/ main idea/ author's purpose What do I notice about the text? What does the author's purpose? Do I agree with the words the author is using? What do I notice about the author's language? What strategies am I using as I read? How do they change? (a.p.) Question self before, during and after reading(E.M.) Do I understand the words on the page? Do the words make sense?

Activities
What-I-Know (W-I-K) Texbook comprehension Monitoring (jac) Text Lookbacks (jac) Graphic organizers Story Grammers Teaching Macro-rules: selection, deletion, subordination Summarizing activities Macrocloze activities Social learning (turn and talk) (a.p.) Using Self-monitoring Questions (jac) use sticky notes to track thinking(a.p.) turn and talk about thinking strategies used while reading (a.p)

Informal Assessment
Summarizing Finding the Main Idea/ Author's Purpose Scrambled Stories Conferring (a.p.) Observation and discussion (E.M.) Conference with each student regularly, informally

Formal Assessment
Summarizing Finding the Main Idea/ Author's Purpose Sequencing Events Asking questions about text (E.M.) Evaluation of written response and questioning strategies (E.M.) Retrospective Miscue (mct) Use ethnographic notetaking Conference regularly during portfolio compilation process Provide rubrics so that students can assess their own process on large projects