2. Objectives
• At the end of this lesson, students are expected to learn
the following:
• Define what is metacognitive reading;
• Demonstrate metacognitive reading strategies through text
analysis.
3. Reading strategies
• Reading to become effective and efficient requires the reader to
have a clear goal or purpose.
• However there are other more deliberate steps to execute an
effective and efficient reading, and we call them reading
strategies
4. Reading strategies
Pre – Reading Strategies
Previewing
Asking yourself what
you already know
Posing questions
During Reading
Strategies
Pausing to reflect
Questioning the Author
Rereading to Clarify an
Idea
Post Reading Strategies
Summarizing the text
Answering questions
posed before reading
5. Metacognition
• Knowledge and use of effective reading strategies to
develop one’s metacognition.
• This is being defined as “being conscious of one’s own
mental process” (Gunning, 1996, p.225)
• It includes the reader’s abilities
• Reader to plan
• Check
• Monitor
• Revise
• Evaluate hi/her unfolding understanding
7. Important metacognitive reading
strategies
• Making Connections – text to yourself, text to text, text to world
• Does this event remind me of something? Do I know someone like
this character? What have I read about (topic) before?
• Asking Questions – before, during, and after reading (application,
synthesis, and evaluation)
• What is the author telling me?
• Monitoring and Fixing-Up – being conscious when one
understands and when one does not understand what they are
reading.
• Do I Understand this segment/part?
