5- Metacognitive reflection

Why reading? 

to understand the subject matter.

Strategies:

1. Highlight, underline, anotate key concepts on the text. 
2. Identify main ideas; topic, aspects, examples. 
3. Summarize. 
4. Ask questions and answer them. 
5. Think of other examples. 
6. SQ3R: Survey, question, read, recite, review. 
7. 3R: Preview (attention), read, recall (storage) 

Benefits of reading and its relationship with writing:

• Annotating or adding notes alongside the text helps to summarize it and to extract the main idea, the key concepts and our study questions. 
• It provides context to understand the subject matter to develop in writings. 
• It constitutes sources to find key arguments for writing. 
• It guarantees base knowledge to discuss in writings. 
• Valuable readings and supplementary material are needed to develop proper arguments for writing. 
• Writing can be considered a strategy to recall the text which will be then stored in the long term memory.