Teaching Resources
Center
Want to learn more or plan a lesson? Check out these links!
- Reading Comprehension Home
- Making Connections
- Fluency
- Determining Importance
- Inferring
- Metacognition
- Questioning
- Synthesizing
- Visualizing and Imagery
- Vocabulary and Word Identification
- Writing Across the Curriculum
Important UNCG Links
Metacognition
- About Metacognition
- Professional Books to help you develop lesson plans
- Children’s Books to use in lesson plans
- Some Helpul Web sites
Websites:
Metacognition – Activities and Interview Sheet
This website has lesson plan ideas for teaching metacognition in the classroom.
Metacognition and Strategic Reading - Center for Literacy and Reading Instruction
This website has information on how to make a lesson plan centred around metacognition.
This website is full of activities for students and assessment guides for teachers.
This website has different articles that explain the reading strategy.
Text Comprehension Instruction
This website gives information about the strategy.
Quotes:
Metacognition, “thinking about my thinking,” helps learners become aware of their strategy use and develops a conscious level of awareness that can make the difference between comprehension and word calling.
1(Hoyt, L., 2005, p. 42)
Matching strategies to one’s purpose requires metacognitive knowledge – an awareness and understanding of how one thinks and uses strategies during reading.
2(Harvey, S. & Goudvis, A., 2000, p. 16)
2Harvey, S. & Goudvis, A. (2000). Strategies that work: Teaching comprehension to enhance understanding.Portland, ME: Stenhouse Publishers.
1Hoyt, L. (2005). Spotlight on comprehension: Building a literacy of thoughtfulness.Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann Books.