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Mixed Practice

Welcome to Mixed Practice! Now that you know all of the cognitive reading strategies to support your metacognitive reading awareness, choose from a variety of different texts to test and improve your skills. Each text is considered a "course" and will take you through all three levels of metacognitive reading awareness. 

Gold Fabric

“Nothing Gold can Stay” by Robert Frost

Difficulty:  âˆ† 

Memorial Candle

"Do not go into that gentle night" by Dylan Thomas

(inactive)

Silhouette of Soldiers

"Charge of the Light Brigade" by A. Tennyson

Difficulty:  âˆ† ∆ 

Statue of Liberty

"The New Colossus" by Emma Lazarus


(Inactive)

Camel in Desert

"Ozymandias" by Percy Shelley

Difficulty:  âˆ† ∆ ∆

Pampas Grass

"Hope is a thing with feathers" by Emily Dickinson

(Inactive)

References

 

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Dunlosky, J., Rawson, K. A., Marsh, E. J., Nathan, M. J., & Willingham, D. T. (2013). Improving

 

students’ learning with effective learning techniques: Promising directions from cognitive

 

and educational psychology. Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 14(1), 4-58.

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Malone, K. (2020, September 2). Strategies for teaching metacognition in the classroom.
 

Graduate Programs for Educators. Retrieved November 13, 2021, from

https://www.graduateprogram.org/2020/09/strategies-for-teaching-metacognition-in-the-

classroom/.
 

Martínez, V. (2001). Missing Link: Metacognition and the Necessity of Poetry in the Composition
 

Classroom. Writing on the Edge, 12(2), 33–52. http://www.jstor.org/stable/43157161

 

The Psychology Notes Headquarters. (2020). What is metacognition? The Psychology


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2021, from https://www.psychologynoteshq.com/metacognition/.

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Stevens, C., & Bavelier, D. (2012, February 15). The role of selective attention on academic


foundations: A cognitive neuroscience perspective. Developmental cognitive

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3375497/#:~:text=Selective%20attention%

20refers%20to%20the,suppressing%20irrelevant%20or%20distracting%20information.

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Schmidt, H. K., Rothgangel, M., & Grube, D. (2015). Prior knowledge in recalling
 

arguments in bioethical dilemmas. Frontiers in Psychology. Retrieved November 13, 2021,

from https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01292/full.

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Training Industry. (2017). Procedural knowledge. Training Industry. Retrieved November 13,

 

2021, from https://trainingindustry.com/glossary/procedural-knowledge/.

 

Taylor, W. (2019). Visualization as a cognitive tool pt. I. Learning Essentials. Retrieved November

 

13, 2021, from https://learningessentialsedu.com/visualization-as-a-cognitive-tool-pt-

 

i/#:~:text=Visualization%20as%20a%20learning%20strategy,%2C%20during%2C%20and%

 

20after%20reading. 

 

The Audiopedia. (2018). What is COGNITIVE STRATEGY? What does COGNITIVE STRATEGY

 

mean? COGNITIVE STRATEGY meaning [Video]. YouTube.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=zmPTYw5VYw0&ab_channel=TheAudiopedia

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Training Industry. (2020). Declarative Knowledge. Training Industry. Retrieved November 13,

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%20to%20each%20other.

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