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HOW TO BE SUCCESSFUL WHEN READING?

Have you ever felt that when reading the novel you have been assigned at schoo,it  becomes such a difficult task to do? Have you ever felt that, although you have the interest in reading, this interest usually disappears because you face many difficuties when reading and  you just decide to give up? S: Why are these strategies created? T: To reflect on and exercise control over your own learning. S: What a difficult name! Why are they called meta-cognitive? T: Because they provide ways for learners to coordinate, consciously, their own learning process. S: When can I use them? T: When you fee, as a student, that you have lost your focus, which can only be regained by conscious use of strategies. S: How many meta-cognitive strategies can I use? T: As many as you wish. But before you use them, you need to know them. You know, it is amazing how many people have devoted their time and effort to analyze this topic. However, there is one model that is known as the Metacognitive model that I think will be appropriate for you to understand. S: Do you mean I will be able to use them? You know how many problems I have in English, specially when reading. T: Off course, I´ll tell you how to use it… First you need to know that……..

….. For instance, when a student begins reading a story in English, he plans by setting his goals or thinking about what he wants to get out of the story and making predictions about the story based on the title and her prior knowledge of the topic. Then she moves on to the monitoring process, and as he reads, checks whether the story makes sense. However, as she reads she decides that, based on new information of the story, she needs to go back and revise some of her plans. She may decide to change her predictions, bring in new background knowledge, or even change the goals. She continues reading and then decides to stop and evaluate herself after completing only the first part of the story. If she feels she did not understand and important phrase or idea, he might need to go to the problem-solving process. ( adapted from

T: Now, tell me how many steps did this student follow? S: Well, that’s easy. Four? T: Good! Now, we are doing this exercise so you can know more about: planning, monitoring, evaluating and problem-solving. .

1. Now let’s read the following definitions and match them with the corresponding process:

_______ Planning		1. This process is to measure the effectiveness _______ Monitoring		while working on the task. Students see how they are _______ Evaluating		doing as they work to make adjustments. _______Problem-solving	2. A process in which students use any available resource to overcome difficulties when learning. 3. This process encourage thinking so that the student reflects before beginning an task rather than diving into the activity unprepared.

Could you do it? Let’s check answers! ............................ 2. The questions I am about to share might lead you to understand the strategies of each one of the processes mentioned before.

PLANNING	MONITORING	EVALUATION	PROBLEM SOLVING What is my goal for this task? What do I want to be able to do? Do I understand this? Am I making sense? What is the gist of this? What is the main idea? Can I guess what this might mean? How can I focus my attention? How can I ignore distractions? What parts should I pay more attention to? Is this information important? How does it fit with my experiences? How does this fit with my real world? Were my predictions and guesses right? Why or why not? How else can I say this? Is there another word that might fit? What do I already know about this? What information can I write down? Did I meet my goal? Who can I ask? How should I ask? What do I think will happen? What might I need to do? How can I plan for the task? Can I imagine a situation that will help me to understand? How well did I do? What information do I need? Where can I get it? How can I best accomplish this task? What do I know best? I can do this! What strategies can I use to help me? Did I choose good strategies? What could I do differently next time?