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Metacognition Strategies for Reading Comprehension

Metacognitive Strategies for Reading Comprehension

Chapter 12 in What Reading Research Tells Us About Children with Diverse Learning Needs discusses four main ideas·the relationship between metacognition and reading comprehension; self-regulation of the reading process; motivation and successful reading; and instruction in metacognition. Metacognition is defined as the process of thinking about one's own thinking or learning processes (Dickson et al, 1998, p.298).

Seventeen studies investigated by the authors revealed that there is a significant relationship between metacognition and reading comprehension (Dickson et al, 1998, p.319). Students who are able to objectively understand the separate parts of the reading task are able to better comprehend what they read. However, it is unknown which metacognition facets related more strongly to successful reading comprehension. Children who are skilled in metacognition, even if they are disadvantaged in some other areas of reading, still do better with reading comprehension.

The authors investigated the relationships between the ability to plan, monitor, and remediate reading challenges and the act of successful reading comprehension and found that self-regulation was closely related to reading comprehension (Dickson et al, 1998, p.325). The investigators were unable to determine which facets of the self-regulation were stronger than others, although such knowledge would enhance successful reading instruction. Children who were able to collaborate during the reading process seemed to demonstrate a higher level of comprehension than those who were unskilled in collaboration. Specific instruction in self-regulation raised the reading comprehension in some groups.

The third point of motivational beliefs explores the power of the student's beliefs in reading comprehension. Those who believed that they were failures and that good reading was a matter of luck did not do as we...

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