**5. Regulation of cognition**

Metacognition also involves cognition regulation, which is the second most essential component [36].

Metacognitive self-regulation is primarily concerned with controlling one's own thinking or learning processes [34]. It was divided into three parts: planning, monitoring, and assessment.

### **5.1 Planning**

Planning is a necessary component before doing the work efficiently. Prior to conducting the work, it is critical to select acceptable task strategies and to determine the fruitful influencing strategies and activities on the performance of learners.

In reading comprehension, the planning strategy is to predict the text and make clues from the pictures and the topics. Guess the meaning of the difficult words etc. These strategies help us to understand the text effectively.

### **5.2 Monitoring**

Individual's immediate cognitive awareness of a task is monitoring. It helps the learner to be on the right track, utilize cognitive processes through smart work, and to never ever give up until you learn what you want to learn.

I would to share my own experience of using metacognitive strategies with children to enhance their reading comprehension. The monitoring strategy in reading is to reread the text to understand the difficult words and concepts. Asking questions during reading also helps in the understanding of the text. To guess the next content is also one strategy to monitor own reading.

### **5.3 Evaluation**

Assessing learning results is also essential for best learning. One self-regulates learning processes, and decisions concerning learning processes are made in this step [34]. After completing the activity, the learner determines whether or not the task was beneficial to the learner.

For understanding reading, the best assessment strategy is to summarize the reading content.
