Teacher Commentary
Take a few minutes to check in with students’ metacognitive thinking. Add any new strategies to the growing class list.

• What reading strategies did you use with these texts?
• Are there some new strategies we can add to our list?
• Where did you get stuck? What did you do when you came to a roadblock or got confused?

At this point, to support students’ metacognition, you might also want students to code their thinking. One option is to use the Metacognitive Bookmarks from Reading for Understanding. Students can read their own thoughts or their partners’ and add tally marks to the appropriate strategy. We then ask students to reflect on their tallies with reflective questions, either orally or in writing.

• What was your most used reading strategy?
• Why do you think you used this strategy the most with this text?
• What strategy did you use the least?
• Why didn’t you use this strategy as much with this text?
• What strategy would you like to use more in the future? Do you need more instruction on how to use this strategy? Or reminders to use it?

A second option is to create a coding system and ask students to place at least one code next to each thought. For example, a Q for questions, a P for predictions, a C for connections.