Connecting El-Hindi's Findings to Your Class
Amelia E. El-Hindi reports on research she has conducted on the development of metacognition in developmental readers and writers. After you read her article, please consider the following:
- El-Hindi, in her Figure 1, visually depicts a plausible hypothesis about connections between metacognitive awareness in reading and in writing. What do you think of this hypothesized connection?
- In her questionnaire results El-Hindi finds little support for the hypothesis that the program described would increase metacognition in writing. What explanations might you offer? Might some of these explanations be rooted in weaknesses in the proposed interaction of reading and writing depicted in Figure 1?
- Review the reading assignments in your class and reflect on the specific reading questions you may have given your students as active reading prompts. Now, work to concretely incorporate lessons from El-Hindi's strong positive findings about the development of metacognitive strategies in reading by revisiting your earlier assignments and looking forward to future assignments. First, undertake a partial revision of one earlier reading assignment to more closely align it with metacognitive strategies identified by El-Hindi. Second, develop a reading assignment (reading log prompts?) for an upcoming reading assignment. Third, write a brief description of how you see each of these assignments as drawing on El-Hindi's findings.
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