Metacognition+Strategies

** ...improve your critical thinking as you read **
 * Metacognition Strategies... **


 * Metacognition Codes (use these abbreviations to label your thinking as you read) **



Culture Puzzle Student Chart

**1. Connections** [|Connections how they help us.doc]


 * Metacognition Connection Chart (use this as you read "My Name", Everybody's Different but the Same Too", "6", "Slower Than the REst", and Salvador Late or Early")


 * 2. Predictions **[[image:http://www.wikispaces.com/i/mime/32/application/msword.png width="32" height="32" link="http://hamillwiki.wikispaces.com/file/view/Predictions-+how+they+help+us.doc"]] [|Predictions- how they help us.doc]


 * 3. Summarization (determining what's important in a text) **



[|Figurative Language booklet.doc]
 * 4. Visualization (understanding figurative language) **

Figurative Language Overview (RAP)

[|Figures of Speech- Literary Techniques.doc]

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 * Similes link
 * Metaphor link(filter override required at school)
 * Personification Link
 * Hyperbole Video link
 * Alliteration VIdeo link
 * Purposeful Repetition video

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 * **Onomatopoeia Video**- __Click, Clack, Moo, Cows that Type__ by Doreen Cronin (Filter override required at school)

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 * Idioms Video- Mrs. Love's Idioms


 * **An Awesome Metaphor Project**

** 5. Inference ** [|Zits comics.notebook]

** 6. Levels of Questioning **