When you are reading, do you monitor your thinking by asking yourself the following questions?
- Does the information make sense to me?
- Am I revising my predictions as I read?
- Am I using a graphic organizer to take notes on important information as I read?
- Am I asking questions or writing down questions to ask later?
- Am I looking for patterns in the text that will help me understand what I have read?
- Do I know what to do when I come to a word I do not understand?
- Do I stop and think about passages I have just finished?
Source: From Teaching Reading in Social Studies: A Supplement to Teaching Reading in the Content Areas Teacher's Manual.