Metacogntion and Focusing

What is metacognition?

• creating mental images in your mind

• thinking about your thinking

• wondering as you read

• thinking what the text might be about

What does it mean to visualize?

• When you think about something that might be coming up in the text. 
• When you see, hear, feel, smell, and/or taste something in the text. 
• thinking about your thinking
• When something you read reminds you of something or someone you have seen, read about, or experienced. 

Tags

CCSS.RF.5.3A

CCSS.RF.5.4A

CCSS.RF.5.4B

CCSS.RF.5.4C

CCSS.RL.8.10

What is predicting?

• When you see, hear, feel, smell, and/or taste something in the text. 
• When something you read reminds you of something or someone you have seen, read about, or experienced. 
• When you think about something that might be coming up in the text. 
• When you ask about something in the text. 

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1J

CCSS.L.2.1F

CCSS.L.8.1C

CCSS.L.K.1D

What does it mean to make connections?

• thinking about your thinking
• When you think about something that might be coming up in the text. 
• When something you read reminds you of something or someone you have seen, read about, or experienced. 
• When you see, hear, feel, smell, and/or taste something in the text. 

Tags

CCSS.RF.1.3A

CCSS.RF.1.3D

CCSS.RI.1.3

CCSS.RI.2.3

CCSS.RI.3.8

Which is an _example of questioning?

• I can smell the sickly garbage in the trash tube. It makes my stomach churn.

• I’m wondering if this book will have information about World Cup Soccer.

• I think Mrs. Mobley is going to rule the universe because she has a lot of powers.

• I could just taste the ice cream sundae, dripping with chocolate syrup, cherry juice, and whipped cream.

What is an example of metacognition?

• Attending a study session

• Doing math homework

• Correcting questions that you miss and thinking through why you missed the questions.

• Studying with a friend prior to an assessment.

Select all answers that are correct. (Yes, more than one.)

A simple example of a metacognitive skill is:

• Realizing you missed something and correcting the answer.

• Talking through your notes aloud

• Changing your study location when you notice you are not focusing.

• Quitting

What is the reading strategy for verbalizing what we are thinking as we read?

• For-crying-out-loud

• reading

• think-aloud

• understand

There are five traits of a metacognitive student ? (MAGIF) What does m stand for?

• making delicious cupcakes

• communicates to friends

• making good projects

• monitors and adjusts thinking as needed

There are 5 traits of a metacognitive student. What does (A) stand for in (magif)?

• asking your study friend for help

• adjusts volume on air pod to focus

• assesses and adjusts learning environments

• asking a teacher for a tutorial pass