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Professional Readings: Metacognition

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• Effective Instructional Practices Enhance Student Achievement

  Chamot discusses the use of students' prior knowledge, teacher modeling, scaffolded instruction, interactive teaching, and the teaching of metacognition and thinking (English Teaching Forum).

• Metacognition and Reading To Learn

  The links between metacognition and reading proficiency (ERIC Digest).

• Reading Process Analysis

  Practical steps to help readers become aware of the demands of different texts and the strategies that they can use to meet those demands. By sharing reflections on their own reading processes in a group, readers learn from each other (WestEd).

• The Role of Metacognition in Second Language Teaching and Learning

  Anderson argues that the teaching of metacognitive skills is a valuable use of instructional time for a second language teacher (CAL).

• Bloom's Revised Taxonomy

  Bloom's Taxonomy is a useful way to plan units of work that incorporate high level thinking skills. This site includes: a colour poster introducing the revised taxonomy, a planning framework to design learning activities that foster all levels of thinking and Investigate a Book the Blooming-Smarts Way, a matrix for a reading programme.

• Language Learning Strategies: An Update

  Rebecca Oxford discusses strategy training (CAL).

• The Thinking Classroom

  This Harvard Project Zero site has research-based articles to help inform the practice of teaching critical and creative thinking