Metacognition: Thinking About Your Own Thinking
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There are 6 Types of Thoughts
QUESTIONS
Evaluations
Questions
Visualizations
Connection
Clarifications
Predictions
thoughts for which you need
answers while reading.
METACOGNITION
and
Active Reading
BUT what kind of thoughts am I trying to write down?
What is Active Reading?
It is a strategy for improving your reading comprehension skills (understanding what you read).
EVALUATION
thinking about your own thinking
thoughts that give an opinion about
something you are reading.
How do you do it?
Why Use It?
Active reading helps improve how much you understand and remember when you read text!
Simply write down any thoughts that cross your mind as you are reading. Later you decide what kind of thought it is.
Predictions
a thought that takes a guess as to what you think might happen next when you are reading.
How does it work?
CONNECTIONS
thoughts that connect what you
are reading with something in your life
(text to text, text to self, text to world).
It forces you to think about what you are reading which helps you remember more information and make more connections with a text.
CLARIFICATION
thoughts that clear
something up in your
mind that was
confusing before.
Visualizations
a thought that you can see like a movie in your mind’s eye.