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Impress your parents with fancy words about reading!

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What are metacognitive reading

strategies? Metacognition is thinking about thinking.

Apply that to reading and its thinking about reading.

That means metacognitive reading strategies aremethods that help you think about reading.

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What are metacognitive reading

strategies? There are seven strategies. The strategies are:

1. Making connections

2. Creating sensory images3. Asking questions

4. Inferring/Predicting

5. Determining importance

6. Synthesizing7. Using fix up strategies

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Making connectionsYou can make three types of connections:

1. Text to self

2. Text to text

3. Text to world

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Making connectionsWhen you make connections, you think:

I use what I know to understand what I read

Make connections by thinking: It reminds me of when I read ... because ... (text to text)

It reminds me of the time I ... because ... (text to self)

It reminds me of something I read because ... (text to text, ortext to world)

It reminds me of something I heard about because ... (text toworld)

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Creating sensory imagesWhen you create sensory images, you think:

I create images in my mind as I read.

I see what I read. I feel what I read.

I hear what I read.

I smell what I read.

I taste what I read. It's like a 4-D movie in my mind.

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Asking questionsWhen you ask questions, you think:

If I ask questions, I can look for answers

before I read

as I read

after I read.

Ask questions by thinking: I wonder...

I was confused when...

How could that be?

Why do you think?

WhoWhat...

WhereWhen...

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Inferring When you infer, you think:

Questioning as I read helps me draw conclusions, makepredictions and reflect on my reading.

When the author doesn't answer my questions I must

infer... Start an inference by thinking:

Maybe...

I think...

It could be ... It's because...

Perhaps...

It means that ...

I'm guessing...

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Predicting When you Predict, you think:

Questioning as I read helps me draw conclusions, makepredictions and reflect on my reading.

When the author doesn't answer my questions I must

predict... Start a prediction by thinking:

Maybe...

I think...

It could be ... It's because...

Perhaps...

It means that ...

I'm guessing...

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Determining importance

When you determine importance, you think:

I understand the main ideas of the text and what theauthor's message is.

Determine what is important by thinking: The text was mostly about...

The author is trying to tell us that...

I learned...

The important details were...

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SynthesizingWhen you synthesize, you think:

I combine what I know with new information tounderstand the text.

Synthesize by thinking: Now I get it!

This makes me think of...

I learned that ...

I understand this because of ....

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Using fix up strategiesWhen you use fix up strategies, you think:

I know how to use different techniques when:

I get stuck on a word

when I get confused

Use fix up strategies by thinking: Ill use context clues to define the word

Ill reread to clarify the meaning

Ill use my questions and connections