Metagonitive And Cognitive Reading Strategies Lesson Plan for 12th Grade Example Students

Topic: metacognitive and cognitive reading strategies

Objectives & Outcomes

• Students will be able to identify and use metacognitive and cognitive reading strategies to improve their comprehension and understanding of text.

Materials

• Text with varying levels of complexity and length
• Handouts with descriptions and examples of metacognitive and cognitive reading strategies
• Pencils and paper for practice activities

Warm-up

• Begin the class by asking students to share some of the strategies they use to improve their reading comprehension. Write their suggestions on the board.
• Next, ask students to explain how each strategy might be used to improve understanding of text.

Direct Instruction

• Introduce the two metacognitive strategies: metacognitive monitoring and metacognitive management.
• Explain that metacognitive monitoring involves noticing and evaluating one's own reading process, such as pausing to think about what's been read so far and how well comprehension is progressing.
• Explain that metacognitive management involves using strategies to improve reading, such as choosing appropriate reading materials and strategies based on the task at hand.
• Next, introduce the three cognitive reading strategies: summarizing, questioning, and visualizing.
• Explain that summarizing involves identifying and writing down the key ideas in a text.
• Explain that questioning involves asking questions about the text to better understand the author's ideas and intentions.
• Explain that visualizing involves using imagery and imagination to better understand the text.

Guided Practice

• Have students work in pairs to practice using the metacognitive and cognitive strategies on a provided text.
• Have students share their responses with the class and discuss how the strategies helped them better understand the text.

Independent Practice

• Have students choose a topic of their own (e.g. personal history, a current event, a book they have read) and write a short essay using a provided text as the source material.
• Have students use both metacognitive and cognitive reading strategies to prepare for and write their essays.
• Have students submit their essays and have the class discuss their responses.

Closure

• Review the different metacognitive and cognitive reading strategies that were discussed throughout the lesson.
• Ask students to share one thing they learned or found interesting about metacognitive and cognitive reading strategies.

Assessment

• Use the independent practice worksheets as a form of assessment to see what students learned about metacognitive and cognitive reading strategies. You could also use a quiz or test to assess student learning.