Teaching Comprehension Strategies

Metacognitive strategies

Teaching metacognitive strategies is a contemporary blackline master series that methodically and creatively teaches students the skills and strategies needed for effective comprehension.

These strategies have been defined as:

• understanding words;
• finding information;
• identifying the main idea;
• sequencing;
• comparing;
• predicting;
• concluding;
• summarising;
• inferring;
• cause and effect;
• fact or opinion; and
• point of view.

Features:

• original and varied texts, customised to suit the strategy being highlighted
• skills and strategies specifically taught using explicitly modelled as well as supported examples and activities
• a student ‘test’ page, where students apply the particular strategy being taught – suitable for assessment purposes
• background notes and information for each strategy, to assist the teacher and to give the activities the widest possible application
• answers where necessary
• A high-interest series that doesn’t just talk about comprehension, it teaches it!