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Learning to Predict and Predicting to Learn Cognitive Strategies and Instructional Routines

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ISBN-10: 0131579223

ISBN-13: 9780131579224

Edition: 2009

Authors: Douglas Fisher, Thomas DeVere Wolsey

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KEY BENEFIT: Features practical instructional routines that are clearly linked to cognitive strategies students need to make sense of text through prediction. Prediction is a critical skill associated with metacognition, a skill good readers use as they self-regulate their own reading. The book combines rationale written from the perspective of current research supporting the use of prediction strategies or instructional routines with clear step-by-step directions and multiple examples from the classroom experiences of teachers across the US. These experiences appear as boxed features that are easily identifiable by the reader. KEY TOPIC: The book is written in such a way that readers may…    
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Book details

List price: $25.20
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Publication date: 2/22/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 144
Size: 8.25" wide x 10.00" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.638

As a teacher for online courses hosted by the University of Central Florida, Dr. Thomas DeVere Wolsey is interested in how the interactions of students in digital and face-to-face environments change their learning. While much of his research centers on how visual information, such as graphic organizers, works in tandem with text to improve learning, he is also intrigued by the intersections of traditional literacies with digital literacies, specifically focusing on how those literacies affect teacher preparation and professional development.nbsp;

An Introduction to Prediction
What Is Predicting?
Predictions Create Purpose
Predictions for Learning
The Structure of This Book
Conclusion
Understanding the Role of Predicting in Learning
Superficial Prediction and Missed Opportunities
Using Clues from the Text to Predict
Incorporating Prior Knowledge into Predictions
The Benefits of Making Predictions
Engagement
Activating Existing Knowledge
Exercising the Use of Reading Strategies
Humans: A History of Predicting
Predictions Reduce Uncertainty
Processing Information: A Critical Aspect of Prediction
Short-Term Memory
Working Memory: Pulling Stored Knowledge Forward
Long-Term Memory and Existing Knowledge
Types of Long-Term Memory
Schemata and Prior Knowledge
Prediction depends on existing knowledge
Predictions depend on actively transforming knowledge
Developing Expert Predictors
Analogies Help Us Predict
Analogies Clarify Understanding
Analogies Help Us Predict with Greater Detail
Analogies Provide a Bridge to New Learning
Comparison Activities as an Expert Skill
Is Making Predictions Enough?
Learning from Predictions: I Predict... Now What?
Teaching Students Strategies for Learning How to Predict
Cognitive Strategies
Attending to Text Features: Illustrations
Attending to Text Features: Tables, Diagrams, Graphs, and Charts
Attending to Text Structures
Attending to Literary Devices
Accessing and Activating Background Knowledge
Accessing and Activating Prior Knowledge
Noting Word-Level Cues
Making Inferences
Asking and Generating Questions
Making Connections
Summarizing
Visualizing
Asking and Making Clarifications
Instructional Routines That Promote Prediction
Instructional Routines
Instructional Routines That Are Evidence-Based
Shared Reading
Think Alouds and Models
Question Answer Relationships (QAR)
The Directed Reading-Thinking Activity
Reciprocal Teaching
Know-Want to Know-Learn (KWL)
Guided Reading and Summarizing Procedure (GRASP)
Cliffhanger
Graphic Organizers
Anticipation Guides
Metacognitive Double-Entry Journals
Hot Seat
Using Predictions to Increase Precision Teaching
Knowing Students
Kid Watching
Interest Inventory
Metacomprehension Strategy Index
Assessments
Profiles in Comprehension
Feedback
Using Feed Up to Establish Goals
Feed Back in the Classroom
Integrating Feed Forward in Instruction
Conclusion
Metacomprehension Strategy Index