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I came across this blog link as I was going through my email.  It looked right on target for helping kids to become successful learners

and take charge of their learning.

“Gradual Release of Responsibility”

Terry Heick’s blog on Edutopia

Show Them, Help Them, Let Them

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/promoting-a-culture-of-learning-terry-heick 

And that prompted me to think about all the links I’ve collected on Pinterest and ScoopIt about metacognition and successful learning.

Pinterest On Executive Function

http://www.pinterest.com/franvt/executive-function/

Pinterest on Empowering Learning

http://www.pinterest.com/franvt/empower-learning/

Frameworks for meeting 21st Century learning challenges. Emotional Intelligence, Metacognition, Purpose (Authentic), Ownership, Work (Zone), Engagement, Representation (for communication)

ScoopIt on “Good Ideas About Learning”

How we can help students be successful!

http://www.scoop.it/t/good-ideas-about-learning

Hope you will find some useful ideas!

My current focus is on early literacy.  Check out the blog:

http://classroomdiscourse.wordpress.com/

I will continue to gather resources and links on the ways in which metacognitve skills facilitate learning to read and reading to learn.