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How do students know if their reading is going well or getting off-track? There’s much more to reading than simply learning the “big five.” Fostering Metacognitive and Independent Readers shows you how to build up readers that are mindful, motivated, and engaged.
Studies show that successful readers use metacognition—thinking about their reading as they move through text—to not only make meaning but to determine whether they are making progress toward their reading goals or whether they need additional support. These skills are most often invisible, so teaching them explicitly is essential. In Fostering Metacognitive and Independent Readers, noted researcher and reading expert Peter Afflerbach shows you how metacognition supports reading development in ways that lead to deeper comprehension.
This book provides practical, easy to use tools to confidently implement metacognitive teaching in your daily planning, including meaningful, research-based instructional practices to build up metacognitive readers, self-assessment strategies that support readers’ independence, examples that model how to create effective checklists and rubrics, descriptions of teachers creating effective metacognitive teaching tools, and models of classroom environments that stimulate and reinforce metacognition.
Use Fostering Metacognition and Independent Readers and give your students the research-supported skills they need to help themselves become confident, successful, independent readers.
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