ABSTRACT
Cognitive strategy instruction (CSI) refers to ways of assisting learners to acquire cognitive skills, or strategies. It does this by helping them to: (a) organize information so that its complexity is reduced, and/or (b) integrate information into their existing knowledge.1 It involves teaching learners methods for accomplishing various kinds of tasks. As we shall see, CSI includes teaching skills such as visualization, planning, self-regulation, memorizing, analysing, predicting, making associations, using cues and thinking about thinking (i.e., metacognition). In a nutshell, you are as much concerned with teaching your students how to learn as teaching them the subject matter of the curriculum.
