Thinking about your own thinking: noticing when you don’t understand and fixing it
Metacognition
purpose
Step 1...
strategy 1...direct experience with content and area of study
strategy 1...providing students with strategies to learn unfamiliar vocabulary while reading
Vocabulary strategies during reading
Reading to take information away
Efferent Stance
prior knowledge
RANDOM: what percentage of the world is bilingual...
about 50%
RANDOM...which language among these is the closest to being extince
- Latin (vatican city)
- Elvish (middle-earth)
-Klingon (star trek)
- Taushiro (peru)
Taushiro (peru)
RANDOM: Which language is written from RIGHT to LEFT?
Arabic
Reading to experience or feel the text
Aesthetic Stance
Give access to the words on the page
Decoding
Step 2...
Check...decide whether the purpose is being met
strategy 3...instruction of key words prior to reading
Preteaching vocab
Learning logs
Signal words that show how ideas connect (because, however, in addition, finally)
Cohesive Ties
Connect ideas that aren't started and hold them across sentences
Inferencing and memory
RANDOM: what is the most spoken language in the world (native speakers only)
Mandarin Chinese
strategy 2...recreate real-life experiences
simulation games
RANDOM...What is the most multilingual country in the world?
- India
- Belgium
- USA
- Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea
Teaching language and subject matter together, so students build English by using it to learn real content
Content based instruction (CBI)
Checks that the meaning makes sense and the purpose is being met
Self monitoring
Step 3
Revise...revise goals or change how they read
A person who speaks multiple languages
Strategy 2...Cooperative group work where students are responsible for each other's learning