This document discusses metacognitive skills for reading. It defines metacognition as "thinking about one's thinking" or "knowing about knowing." Metacognition refers to regulating one's own learning process, which in reading means critically thinking about one's own understanding. The document outlines 8 ways to develop metacognitive skills such as knowing what you don't know and seeking feedback. It discusses metacognitive reading strategies like planning, active reading to check understanding, and fixing comprehension. Developing metacognitive skills requires practice but also automatic reading abilities and a motivated attitude towards reading. Parents can help children become metacognitive readers by ensuring mastery of foundational reading skills and promoting reading fluency and comprehension.

1. METACOGNITIVE SKILLS
FOR READING
Prepared By:
Ms. Janki Srivastava
Assistant Professor
Amity University

2. What is Metacognition ?
• The simplest definitions of metacognition are “thinking about one’s thinking”
or “knowing about knowing.”
• Metacognition refers to the process of considering and regulating one’s own
learning.
• In reading, this means the reader can think critically about his/her own
understanding.

3. Deep Understanding
• Once you truly and deeply understand something, you are in
position to do something positive with that understanding.
like:
• create or design
• generalize or reflect
• theorize or hypothesize
• criticize or think critically about its implications
• promote better understanding for others

5. 8 WAYS TO DEVELOP METACOGNITIVE SKILLS
• Know What You Don’t Know
• Set Yourself Great Goals
• Ask Yourself Good Questions
• Prepare Properly
• Monitor Your Performance
• Seek Out Feedback and Then Use It
• Keep a Diary
• React better to the feedback you get

6. Metacognition Reading Strategies
It’s skill that includes the following elements:
• Planning - What Do I Need To Know?
• Active reading strategies- Am I Understanding This?
• Fix up strategies- Should I Read This Page Again?

7. How To Improve Metacognition In Reading
• Metacognitive skills will improve with practice. But there are two foundational
skills that must be in place before that practice can truly start:
• The ability to think while reading- Needs To Be Automatic
• A motivated, lean forward attitude towards reading- Needs To Be
Rewarding

8. How To Help Your Child Become
A Metacognitive Reader

9. • Reading skills develop in a sequence that is
hard to change. Your child cannot get to
Reading with Metacognition peak until he
masters the skills lower in the pyramid.
• Mastering cognitive skills that make reading
easier — phonological awareness, attention,
working memory, language processing.
• Reading fluency — the ability to read at natural
language speed, with inflection, is only possible
if a child is reading with automaticity, effortlessly.
Truly fluent readers can think while reading.

10. • Reading comprehension — this makes reading
rewarding. Once a child is reading effortlessly,
instruction on vocabulary, grammar, etc., can
quickly improve comprehension. From that point,
there is every chance he will become an
enthusiastic lean forward reader who will
practice metacognitive reading strategies.
• Reading with metacognition – the ultimate
reading skill.

11. Thank you