Metacognition

Key Comprehension Strategies to Teach

“How can classroom reading instruction help poor readers — indeed, all students — become more like good readers? Research suggests that the answer may lie in providing students with instruction that both teaches them the comprehension strategies that work so well for good readers and helps them to develop the necessary metacognitive awareness of how and when to use these strategies.”

The Usefulness of Brief Instruction in Reading Comprehension Strategies

By Daniel T. Willingham

“How does the mind work—and especially how does it learn? Teachers’ instructional decisions are based on a mix of theories learned in teacher education, trial and error, craft knowledge, and gut instinct. Such gut knowledge often serves us well, but is there anything sturdier to rely on?”

The Reading Comprehension Blueprint: Helping Students Make Meaning From Text By Nancy Hennessey