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ISBN 1-893476-05-07 Classroom Strategies Described: • Activities to activate prior knowledge: brainstorming, asking questions, discussing the topic, providing analogies • Specific strategies outlined: K-W-L DR/TA Pre-reading Plan Anticipation Guides and Problematic Situations (pages 92-93, 104-5, 116-7, 122-3) • Ideas for fostering conditions affecting learning climate, including physical conditions and affective dimensions (pages 13-15) • Teaching text features - reader aids, vocabulary, text structure (pages 1739) • “Think-alouds” to promote metacognitive processing, questions to promote metacomprehension, ideas for reflective questioning, writing-tolearn activities and discussion (pages 47-55) • Framework for Strategic Learning – PAR: Preparation and Planning (before) / Assistance and Association (during) / Reflection and Readiness for Application (after) (pages 57-60) • Reading strategies are organized with definitions and samples in 4 categories: vocabulary development, narrative text, informational text, and reflection (page 69) Key Messages: • Research on learning has important implications for reading instruction.. thinking strategies for four core curriculum areas: • Benefits of metacognitive learning Language Arts: include: - Activating prior knowledge - develops an important life skill for - Visualizing academic success, workplace, - Predicting and questioning citizenship, personal development - Summarizing - challenges students to take - Checking to refine interpretation responsibility for their own learning - Exploratory writing - teaches a repertoire of skills - Drafting strategies - facilitates differentiated - Vocabulary building activities instruction in classrooms with Mathematics: varied student needs - Problem solving complements process-based - Reasoning learning - Communication- writing about math increases learner confidence ideas Science: - Graphic organizers - Concept maps - Brainstorming - Journals - Problem solving, decision making Social