Feeling of not understanding
Notice the feeling of not understanding — recognise when something is confusing rather than reading or listening past it
Typical age: 6–7 years
“If your child is reading or listening and something doesn't make sense, do they notice and say so — rather than carrying on as if they understood?”
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- Naming Your Feelings
Naming what you are feeling is emotional comprehension monitoring — the universal habit of noticing what's happening inside applied to emotional experience
- Trying a New ApproachREQUIRED
Strategy switching is triggered by noticing the current approach isn't working — requires comprehension monitoring
- Monitoring Comprehension
Noticing the decoding/understanding gap is the English-specific form of the universal comprehension-monitoring habit
- Observation vs Interpretation
Noticing the observation/interpretation distinction requires monitoring your own thinking — the universal comprehension-monitoring habit applied to scientific reasoning
- Exploring Ideas Through Talk
Using talk to explore ideas and speculate requires noticing what you don't yet understand — the comprehension-monitoring habit in a spoken register
- Guided Multi-Step Problem Solving
Evaluating whether a maths solution is reasonable applies the universal comprehension-monitoring habit
- Responding to Writing Feedback
Noticing when your own writing doesn't make sense requires the universal comprehension-monitoring habit applied to one's own text
- Self-Correcting While Reading
Checking that a text makes sense while reading and self-correcting is the reading-domain form of the universal comprehension-monitoring habit
- Reading for Meaning
Understanding that reading means making meaning is the English-domain grounding of the universal habit of noticing when you don't understand
- Asking scientific questions
Asking scientific questions is the science-domain expression of the universal comprehension-monitoring habit: noticing what you don't yet understand