PLE 7- Metacognitive Skills

Think of an activity or lesson component that explicitly teaches one or more metacognitive and one or more problem solving skills.

During any reading lesson I think a teacher can incorporate the teaching of metacognitive skills through comprehension monitoring. This can be done for an extended period of time lead by the teacher until the children are able to go through the steps on their own. For first grade children can take turns reading through a short story. The teacher can stop the children and have them monitor their process and make sure they are aware of what is going on. I would do this by stopping and then having them tell a partner what they just read and the main points, the partners would take turns telling each other throughout the story.  I would use another technique after we finished reading the story. Children would have a sheet of paper and after asking a question they would write down their answer. Then I would give possibilities and have children give a thumps up if that is what they put. Then if there were multiple children who got the answer wrong we would go back in the text and find where we can answer that question. The children would be learning how to self check and after goring through this process with the teacher they would be able to do it own their own without having to talk to a partner or write down anything.  As they grow and their awareness becomes more automatic you can begin to have them pick out relevant information by learning what information is really important what information is not necessary to the entire story.

Here is an introduction from a book that talks about reading strategies and techniques that incorporate metacognitve skills into reading comprehension. The entire book is not available on Google but the introduction provides some background information.