Chapter 10:
High-Leverage Practice 5:
Metacognitive Strategies
Cognitive Strategy Instruction (CSI)
• Explicit instructional approach that facilitates information processing
• Metacognitive and self-regulation helps students monitor and evaluate their
comprehension
• Students become strategic and self-regulated learners
Cognitive Strategy Instruction (CSI)
• Procedures include
• Process modeling
• Verbal rehearsal
• Scaffolded instruction
• Guided and distributed practice
• Self-monitoring
Cognitive Strategy Instruction (CSI)
• Comprehending Expository Text
• Students work in cooperative groups as Leader, Clunk expert, Gist expert,
and Question expert
• Before reading “Preview”
• During Reading “Click and Clunk”
• After Reading “Wrap-up”
Cognitive Strategy Instruction (CSI)
• Self-Regulated Strategy-Development (SRSD)
• Improves planning, production, and revision of text
• Six steps
• Develop and activate background knowledge
• Discuss the strategy
• Model it
• Memorize it
• Support it
• Perform it independently
Cognitive Strategy Instruction (CSI)
• Self-Regulated Strategy-Development (SRSD)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFRvOAf80zY
Cognitive Strategy Instruction (CSI)
• Writing an opinion essay: Specific strategy to be taught depends on the genre
of interest
• i.e. POWTREE
• P – pick an idea
• O – organize notes
• W – write and say more
• T – topic sentence
• R – reasons – at least three
• E – explain each reason
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMQrCH5kKJw
• E - Ending
Cognitive Strategy Instruction (CSI)
• Solve It! Math Problem Solving
• Teaches students the cognitive processes and self-regulation strategies
necessary to solve math word problems effectively and efficiently
• 7 cognitive processes
• Read
• Paraphrase
• Visualize
• Hypothesize
• Estimate
• Compute
• Check
Cognitive Strategy Instruction (CSI)
• Practicality of CSI
• Can be used with individuals, small or large groups
• Requires commitment from both teachers and students
• Must see the value of the strategy
• Need to perceive the link between effective strategy use and learning
outcomes, as well as their own agency
• Teachers must consider the usefulness of the strategies
• Flexibility acts as a major advantage
Cognitive Strategy Instruction (CSI)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAr6bEbiyik
Teaching Matters - Metacognition
• Metacognition walks students through process of thinking about learning
• i.e. Think aloud; think, pair, share; wait time; showing them what it is
you’re thinking
• Learned through explicit instruction and internalize information
• Motivates students to share strategies and how they came to solutions