The CALLA (cognitive academic language learning approach) method focuses on explicitly teaching language learners to understand and apply metacognitive, cognitive, and social/affective strategies (Chamot, 2009; Chamot & O’Malley, 1994). This brief video discusses the why and the how of cognitive and metacognitive strategies and includes some great graphics.
Having your students annotate the text while reading is a great way for them to monitor their thinking and understanding. I love this “Meta” anchor text that has simple symbols that can be used to annotate while reading, leading to greater comprehension.
I really like this document because each reading strategy has sentence stems/starters to go with it. This could be a great resource for our CLD students when providing prompts to get them talking about what they are reading and the strategies they are using.
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