This involves understanding the task and deciding what you should get out of it.
What is Set Goals?
100
This involves seeking or arranging the conditions that help you learn and focusing on what you know, including language structures, topics, and personal experiences.
What is Self-Management?
100
This involves your writing down key words and concepts in abbreviated verbal, graphic, or numerical form.
What is Take Notes?
100
This involves guessing the meaning of unfamiliar language based on what you know, the content, the language, and other contextual clues.
What is Inference?
100
This involves your creating a mental, oral, or written review of information.
What is Summarize?
200
This involves making a conscious decision to focus all your attention on the task at hand by ignoring mental, physical, and environmental distractions.
What is Directed Attention?
200
This involves checking your understanding by asking questions that help you understand and help others understand you.
What is Ask If It Makes Sense?
200
This involves creating an image that helps you represent information.
What is Use Imagery?
200
This involves replacing known words or phrases when you do not know or cannot remember a specific word or phrase.
What is Substitute?
200
This involves deciding whether you achieved what you intended to.
What is Check Goals?
300
This helps bring to mind information that you know about the topic, the world, and the language to help you do the task.
What is Activate Background Knowledge?
300
This involves choosing to focus on specific aspects of language or situational details that will help you perform the task.
What is Selectively Attend?
300
This involves your manipulating tangible objects, role-playing, pantomiming the situation to contextualize language.
What is Manipulate/Act Out?
300
This involves asking for explanation, verification, rephrasing, or examples.
What is Ask Questions to Clarify?
300
This involves checking how well you understood or used the language in the task.
What is Evaluate Yourself?
400
This involves thinking of the kinds of words, phrases, and information that you can expect to encounter based on what you already know or information you encounter during the task.
What is Predict?
400
This involves your applying or figuring out rules about language, including grammar, phonology, and morphology.
What is Deduction and Induction?
400
This involves making positive statements such as, "I can do it" to help yourself get through challenging tasks.
What is Talk Yourself Through It (Self-Talk)?
400
This involves using materials such as dictionaries, textbooks, computer programs, and the Internet.
What is Use Resources?
400
This involves judging your use of the strategies and their effect on your learning.
What is Evaluate Your Strategy
500
This involves planning how you can accomplish the learning task, generating content in sequence, and brainstorming words, phrases, and information to use in the task.
What is Organizational Planning?
500
This involves comparing the message to your background knowledge to see if it makes sense.
What is Personalize/Contextualize?
500
This involves your working with the classmates to complete the tasks and/or give and receive feedback.
What is Cooperate?
500
This involves checking whether your guesses or expectations were met while you did the task.
What is Verify Predictions and Guesses?
500
This involves using images and words to create crazy mental pictures to remember new vocabulary.