Teaching metacognitive strategies is a contemporary blackline master series that methodically and creatively teaches students the skills and strategies needed for effective comprehension.

Book F is intended for use with students aged 10-11 years.

These strategies have been defined as:

• Understanding words
• Finding information
• Identifying the main idea
• Sequencing
• Comparing
• Predicting
• Concluding
• Summarising
• Inferring
• Cause and effect
• Fact or opinion
• Point of view

Features:

• Original and varied texts, customised to suit the strategy being highlighted
• Skills and strategies specifically taught using explicitly modelled as well as supported examples and activities
• A student ‘test’ page, where students apply the particular strategy being taught – suitable for assessment purposes
• Background notes and information for each strategy, to assist the teacher and to give the activities the widest possible application
• Answers where necessary