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Schirmer, Barbara R. – Reading Research and Instruction, 1995
Determines whether mental imagery could be used as a metacognitive reading comprehension strategy by deaf elementary-level children. Finds that when encouraged to engage in mental imagery, students exhibited four qualities of thinking (recollection, representation, inference, and evaluation) during and after reading that revealed how they were…
Descriptors: Deafness, Elementary Education, Metacognition, Reading Comprehension
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Gordon, Christine – Reading Research and Instruction, 1990
Reports observations made to explore sixth grade students' changing awareness of the characteristics of text, self as reader and writer, and monitoring strategies during the reading and writing of narrative and expository text. (SR)
Descriptors: Grade 6, Intermediate Grades, Metacognition, Reading Processes
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Feathers, Karen M.; White, Jane H. – Reading Research and Instruction, 1987
Describes a content analysis of the journal entries of six college freshmen in developmental reading courses, which indicated that students' metacognitive awareness of both reading and learning processes increased over time. (HTH)
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Freshmen, Content Analysis, Higher Education