Metacognitive Strategies Lesson

Learning Objectives

• Define metacognition and list metacognitive skills.

• Describe the importance of metacognitive skills in the learning process.

• Compare strategies to help students refine metacognitive skills.

• Develop a plan for implementing at least one of the strategies discussed to help students become self-directed learners.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is an example of a metacognitive strategy?

• playing a video game

• reading a novel

• taking notes during a lecture

• eating a healthy breakfast

Multiple Choice

A reader thinks about why they are reading a text before they start reading. What is the reader doing?

• Using background knowledge

• Making an inference

• Establishing a purpose for reading

• Asking and answering questions

Multiple Choice

What is a prediction?

• The reader asks questions about what is happening in the text.

• A reader makes a guess about what will happen next.

• A reader thinking is changing and growing while reading.

• The reader makes an inference about the character's feelings.

Multiple Choice

Readers can use sensory details from the text to ______________.

• Make predictions

• Make an inference

• Establish purpose for reading

• Create mental images

Multiple Choice

Look at the statement below:

The character in the book reminds me of my little sister, because she always bothers me when my friends come over. The character in the book does this to her brother.

This is an example of:

• Establishing a purpose for reading

• Making an inference

• Making connections

• Synthesizing

Multiple Choice

Schema (Background Knowledge) + Details from the Text =

• Synthesizing

• Making inferences

• Making connections

• Creating mental images

Multiple Choice

A key detail is ____________________________________

• a detail that is interesting or entertaining

• a detail that is important in helping the reader understand the text.

• a detail from your schema

• a detail that helps to create mental images

Multiple Choice

"My thinking is growing and changing as I read" describes which strategy below?

• Making inferences

• Asking and answering questions

• Creating mental images

• Synthesizing

Multiple Choice

Why is metacognition important for learning?

• it enhances creativity

• it helps improve memory skills

• it allows for better self-awareness and self-regulation of learning

• it makes learning more entertaining