Strategies+for+Learning

Metacognition: Is the action of thinking about one's own thinking. Keene and Zimmerman (1997) listed eight strategies for improving text comprehension. Each thinking strategy is a variation of metacognition.
 * Monitoring Comprehension
 * Using Narrative and expository text structures
 * Retelling, summarizing, synthesizing, inferring
 * Generating questions
 * Answering questions
 * Using prior knowledge to make predictions
 * Using mental imagery to visualize

University of Kansas Center for Research on Learning, @http://www.ku-crl.org/sim/strategies.shtml

Keene, Ellin, and Zimmermann, Susan. Mosaic of Thought: Teaching Comprehension in a Reader's Workshop. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1997.