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Sample of Cognitive Processing Activities During Cooperative Reading.

1. asking and recording questions to be answered.
2. scanning text/headings and making content predictions.
3. relating passage content to prior knowledge/experiences.
4. generating analogies and inferences about the text.
5. charting, outlining, or graphing for comparisons/contrasts.

Cooperative Postreading Activities:

1. explaining/expanding on one's knowledge discoveries.
2. discussing and summarizing main ideas.
3. deciding upon the relevance and utility of information.
4. identifying story structure and constructing story theme.
5. providing hints/supports in comprehension monitoring.
6. critiquing missing info & diagnosing misunderstandings.
7. paraphrasing, defending, and refining conflicting ideas.
8. modeling question-asking and other cognitive strategies.
9. evaluating and comparing oneself to others.
10. evaluating strategic effectiveness.

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