ABSTRACT
This chapter provides suggestions for helping students comprehend texts; engage in close reading; enhance metacognitive skills; think critically about ideas, concepts, and positions in texts; and become intellectually engaged and eager to learn more about topics. The CCSS Reading Anchor Stand One specifies that students should be able to "Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text". Metacognitive strategies are mechanisms that emanate from the reader's awareness of the cognitive demands of the text, the goals and purposes that will be accomplished in reading given texts, and the need to generate a variety of cognitive strategies in accomplishing these objectives. In order to promote critical thinking, teachers can collaborate to help students consider problems from different stances, as is customary in good critical thinking outside of schools.
