Julianna Ryden
PSY 120
12/15/16
Final Exam Essay #1
2. Explain how youngsters’ metacognitive development plays a role in reading,
writing, and learning science.
Metacognition is a person’s understanding of his or her own cognitive
processes and efforts to control the process in order to learn more effectively. In
reading, the first step of metacognition that occurs is that reading involves making
sense of what was read and not just reading the words in the book (McDevitt &n
Ormrod 2015 p. 374). The second part of metacognition in reading, is not only
