Re-Imagining Content Area Literacy Instruction
Metacognition and Theory
Research on Content Area Literacy
Metacognition and Assessment
Metacognition and Professional Development
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This support brings the understanding of how to assist teachers in creating instruction that supports adolescents as they develop their literacy skills with texts.
What is the literacy specialist?
100
Thinking about one's own thinking that emphasizes conscious, mindful action as opposed to technical compliance by being aware of one's knowledge and the control and self-regulation of one's knowledge.
What is the definition of metacognition?
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Assuming that students already have the set of skills or behaviors needed, such as study skills, when they enter the classroom and therefore are not explicitly taught.
What is hidden curriculum?
100
Defined as an evaluation of a reader's awareness and knowledge of the mental processes engaged during reading and the monitoring and regulating of their thoughts before, during, and after reading to obtain comprehension of text.
What is metacognitive assessment?
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The process of structured questions and specific areas targeted for leading teachers in thinking about their instructional practice.
What is guided reflection?
200
Includes written or printed words, paragraphs, and traditional print, along with nonprint, pictures, graphs and charts, audio and media content.
What is the redefined definition for text?
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The emphasis for students to develop metacognitive awareness and self-regulatory mechanisms to support problem solving when they are engaged in literacy related activities.
What is the goal of metacognitive literacy instruction?
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The acknowledgement of the fact that readers require various strategies when they study particular subjects and read many kinds of materials for different purposes. The primary mission is to develop students' "reading to learn" strategies.
What is the importance of content area reading?
200
The focus of what students can't do or what they are lacking as compared to the strengths that a student brings from their culture.
What is the difference between a deficit or an asset belief system?
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The research-based methods of teaching diverse student populations that include the principles of: 1. building trust 2. becoming culturally literate 3. building a repertoire of instructional strategies 4. using effective questioning 5. providing effective feedback 6. analyzing instructional materials 7. establishing positive home-school relations
What is culturally responsive or culturally relevant teaching?
300
The ability to negotiate and create texts in discipline- appropriate ways or in ways that other members of a discipline would recognize as "correct" or "viable".
What is the definition of literacy?
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The process of decoding, comprehending, and montoring comprehension through guided practice to build fluency in monitoring reading and engaging in corrective procedures.
What is the model of automatic metacognition?
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Knowing that there is not a universal approach to reading based upon the level of prior knowledge of the subject, the kind of text, and the purpose for reading. These include how the information is created, the standards of evidence, and avenues to communicate the knowledge within the text genre.
What are disciplinary comprehension strategies?
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Include tests to ask students to determine what needs to be fixed in a passage, "tilling the text", color-coding portfolio entries, telling the metacomprehension processes used, and self assessments.
What are examples of metacognitive assessments?
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Supporting teachers in becoming aware of what they know, of what they can do well, and how to improve what they do not do as well in order to support readers and writers through quality instruction.
What is the role of the coach in the metacognitive process?
400
Instead of learning about the disciplines, students must participate in the disciplines through the process of jointly identifying valued texts and literacies, creating sound practices, and creating practice to engage students.
What is the importance of collaboration between teachers and literacy specialists?
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Not a set of strategies, but questions and tasks to promote interaction or engagement with the text that focus on the cognitive processes good readers use to understand.
What is reading comprehension?
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The dominant pedagogical approach to teaching reading that sees the role of the text and the teacher to transmit a large body of official knowledge and skills to students without attention to any diversity or needs. The instruction is both content and teacher centered.
What is the transmission approach to teaching reading and subject area content?
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Include Declarative Knowledge (what / that), Conditional Knowledge (when / why), and Procedural Knowledge (how) that explain the complex relationship between a reader and the task.
What are the three types of metacognitive knowledge for strategic comprehension processes?
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Due to lack of experiences, instruction must be explicit, deliberate, and modeled through the use of guided prompts and ample opportunities for practice.
What is the approach to preservice teaching of reflective practice?
500
The requirement of the teacher to help students develop rich and accurate conceptions about science and help students learn how to question, observe, explain, and critique to understand the nature of science - learn by "doing".
What is literacy instruction in science classrooms?
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This aspect focuses on the learner's ability to "monitor" by defining the problem and issues and/or "self regulate" by deciding what strategies to use, when and how to use it, and why it was selected to be used.
What is the independence component of metacognition?
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Teachers work with students to decode, comprehend, extract, and synthesize information from multiple texts as well as encourage students to generate their own knowledge and make their own interpretations through literature discussions, reading and writing workshops, and project based learning.
What are examples of participatory approaches to literacy instruction?
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When this is used through modeling, explicit instruction, and practice, students are able to demonstrate increases in cognitive processing as readers independently select and engage in reading tasks. This also promotes a student's self esteem, motivation, and ongoing reflection while reading.
What is the benefit of adolescent self-assessment?
500
A tool that provides a construct for the literacy coach and teacher to dialogue about a lesson through analysis in order to help teachers become more self-aware of their thinking and lesson planning.
What is the Teacher Learning Instrument (TLI)?
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