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ERIC Number: EJ560802
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1998
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ISSN: ISSN-1081-3004
Using Embedded Questions to Jump-Start Metacognition in Middle School Remedial Readers.
Weir, Carol
Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, v41 n6 p458-67 Mar 1998
Describes how a reading specialist used metacognition as the basis of her teaching of middle school remedial readers. Describes various ways she worked with embedded questions to get students thinking while they were reading. Describes final student projects on short stories that demonstrate that embedded questions combined with lots of classroom talk are effective. (SR)
Descriptors: Instructional Improvement, Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools, Metacognition, Middle Schools, Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulties, Reading Improvement, Reading Strategies, Remedial Reading
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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