1st reading strategies
- 1. READING AS A STRATEGIC PROCESS1. What’s reading?2. Why do we read?3. Skills Vs Strategy4. Metacognitive skills – Metacognitive Process_ The Importance and dimensions of Metacognitive ability5. A Reading Strategy List6. Exercise – SCANNING
- 2. READING AS A STRATEGIC PROCESSARGEMIRO AMAYA BUELVASEspecialista en ELTC. Magister in Education
- 3. WHAT IS READING COMPREHENSION?“Understanding a written text means extracting the required information from it as efficiently as possible”Grellet(1981)WHY DO WE READ?“There are two main reasons for reading:Reading for pleasure.
- 4. Reading for information (in order to find out something or in order to do something with the information you get)”Grellet (1981)
- 5. SKILLS VS STRATEGIESSkillStrategy- Observable behaviours (answers to questions, answers on tests, skills list, and taxonomies).- A conscious plan under the control of the reader.- Product- oriented. - Generally thought to be unobservable.- Process-oriented.- Instructions focuses on ways to help students understand what they read.
- 6. WHAT IS METACOGNITION? What does it mean to successfully "contextualize and operationalise" strategies,…or to "be able to apply strategies strategically,“ That, I believe, is where metacognition comes in.Metacognition is "cognition about cognition," or "thinking about thinking."
- 7. THE IMPORTANCE OF METACOGNITIVE ABILITYAccording to O'Malley, et al., "students without metacognitive approaches are essentially learners without direction or opportunity to review their progress, accomplishments, and future directions" (1985, p. 561).
- 8. THE DIMENSIONS OF METACOGNITIVE ABILITYTwo dimensions: (1) knowledge of cognition (2) regulation of cognition (Flavell, 1978). The first aspect of metacognition, "knowledge about cognition," includes three components"declarative," "procedural," and "conditional" (Paris, Lipson, and Wixson, 1983)..
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