Against the

Odds: Reading

Critically in the

21st Century

Reading Between the Lives IThe Making Visible Project at Chabot College (18 minutes)

As you watch the film, write down comments and/or situations

to which you can relate.

What did you write down?

Demystifying Reading

Our Goals:1. define metacognition;2. describe how it is used by

good readers;3. describe how lack of it

creates poor readers;4. practice “Inquiry” in reading;5. learn to use the Charting to

improve reading skills;6. learn a way to be a strategic, reflective, and self-regulating reader.

ENTER:THE METACOGNITIVE DIMENSION

“meta”after or beyond

“cognitive”mental process of

knowing

Metacognition is “thinking about thinking”Metacognition refers to learners' automatic awareness of their own knowledge and their ability to understand, control, and manipulate their own cognitive (thinking) processes.Metacognitive skills are important not only in school, but throughout life, as they help you:

be a person who has learned to learn; know the stages in the process of learning and

understand your preferred approaches to it;identify and overcome blocks to learning so you can

bring learning from academic to on-the-job/career situations.

Readers with poor metacognitive skills:

often finish reading a passage without even knowing that they have not understood it;

are unable to process and use what they have read;

are unable to make adjustments in their learning processes and monitor their own learning;

approach reading with a negative attitude;

set themselves up to fail.

Cool—how do I start?

the act of seeking truth, information, or knowledge

an investigationthe act of inquiring

or of seeking information by questioning

Practice INQUIRY in-kwuh-ree (n), inquiries

A Reading Inquiry

HOW you readis as important asWHAT you read.

Should we read everything the same?

The Challenge We read different texts in different

ways. Reading is an invisible process. For effective readers (or when one is

reading effectively) this is especially true.

In order to conduct an inquiry into what we do when we read, we need to make this invisible process visible.

How do I do that, you ask?

Develop a Strategy…

Charting the Text