Reading

Metacognitive awareness means that the reader is aware of his or her thinking during the reading of various types of text.  We have been discussing how to become better readers and comprehenders. One way to do this is to talk about various comprehension strategies and to practice those strategies.  There are 13 parts of metacognitive awareness.  Here are the parts we have discussed so far:

• Clarifying: What words or ideas don't I understand?
• Connecting: What does this remind me of? 

                     -text to self
                     -text to text
                     -text to world

• Deciding What is Important: What is important, based on my goals?