Literacy based metacognition: How does explicit teaching of reflection/writing analysis, impact upon the progress of children’s writing in KS2?

Metacognition is an essential part of writing instruction: with a metacognitive focus, pupils not only activate their prior knowledge by knowing more and remembering more, they also learn to recognise and apply new and prior strategies for their personal writing process. Their ability to reflect on their individual strengths and weaknesses is improved to the point where they can clarify success and identify their own next steps. Furthermore, they improve their ability to articulate the differences and requirements between written genres.