About The Program
Know What You Read is an adult tutorial program for those in continuing education or in occupations that require extensive reading. It is designed to improve reading metacognitive awareness. Metacognition is, in essence, being aware of your own thought processes in regards to how you learn and retain new information (Malone, 2020). But what does it mean to read with metacognitive awareness? Simply put, it is thinking about what you are reading as you are reading it. Many times when we read something, we do not know what it is we are reading because we are thinking about so many other things, or we have not taught ourselves to read intentionally. This program is designed to help you train your mind to read with focus and intentionality by introducing cognitive strategies that improve selective attention, planning, monitoring, and self-evaluation. By the end, you will think critically about what you read, and form intelligent opinions about texts.
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Wait, poetry? Why poetry?
Great question! Well, number one: poems are typically short and dense, making it the perfect reading material to practice our reading metacognitive awareness. Poetry often contains both literal and figurative meanings, both of which can only be ascertained when we are thinking about what the poet is saying and how they are saying it. Poetry forces us to read in between the lines and make cognitive assumptions in regards to what we are reading (Martinez, 2001). Just like an article, reading passage, book, etc., poems contain a central message or main idea about which we can form opinions. Reading metacognitive awareness teaches us to not just read, but to be aware of our positions and feelings that are forming as we read.
In this program, you will go through different levels of metacognition that build upon one another. In the first level, we will focus on Planning, which helps us set goals about what we are reading and why. Level 2 focuses on Monitoring our progress. Monitoring forces you to be aware of how well you are comprehending and reading material. The final level stresses Evaluation, wherein you are taught strategies that increase awareness in regards to your overall performance. At each level, you will be taught cognitive strategies to help you read better and with more awareness.
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Reading critically means not just obtaining a thorough comprehension of a text, but also being able to articulate it and form opinions about it.
Not Just Comprehension
Not only will you know what you read, but you will also begin to think critically about it! You will get the opportunity to test yourself on a variety of reading passages wherein you can decide which cognitive reading strategies work best for you. Don't be swayed by the arguments in everything you read; instead, form your own opinions about them! We do this by thinking about an author's language and word choice, the images and tone evoked by the author, as well as an author's use of details and support, in order to derive not just a surface understanding of the text, but a deep comprehension of it’s message. And mastering a text allows us to think critically about it. When we read news articles, academic essays, or scholastic essays, we must be able to master what we read. Our hope is that by the end of this course, you will not just learn to understand what you read, but also have complex opinions and thoughts about the text that leads to mastery of comprehension.
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