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Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Study Skills: Reading Strategies

How you read is important to how you learn. The environment, the rates, things like this help you absorb the material.

1)      Metacognition – learning how to learn

·         Connecting new information to former knowledge

·         Selecting learning strategies deliberately

·         Planning, monitoring and evaluating learning

2)      Environment for Reading

·         Lighting

·         Ventilation

·         Reading position

·         Focal distance

·         Distractions

3)      SQ3R

Survey

·         examine everything so you know what you’re reading

Question

·         make your own questions

o    main idea

o    what’s important,

o   turn headings into questions

Read

·         underlining the main ideas helps you remember

·         use the margins for key ideas and organizing concepts

·          reflect on what you know

·         highlight and take notes

·         look for answers to your questions

·          be present

o   be aware of your presence

·         avoid marathon reading sessions

·         set smarter goals for difficult readings

Recite

·         summarize in your own words

·         talk about what you’ve just read to yourself or someone else  

·         ask yourself questions

Review – within 24 hours

·         highlights and underlining

·         read notes

·         recite main points

·         answer questions

·         weekly/monthly in addition to the daily

4)      Reading Critically

·         Is the text reliable?

·   What’s fact? What’s true?

·   What is my opinion? Do I agree?

·   Who are the authors?

·         What is the purpose and register?

·   Does is inform, amuse, persuade…?

·   Is the writing academic, formal or journalistic?

·         Get the big picture by skimming

·         How much do I need to cover?

·   How much time do I have?

·   Relation to the course?

·   Relevance to me?

5)      Reading Rates

·         Skimming – to find specific information, to get the general idea

·         Rapid – to review familiar material, get the main idea, reading light material for leisure

·         Normal – to answer specific questions, note details, solve problems, underline relationship of detail to main topic

·         Careful – to master content

Summary

·         Environment is important

·         Be an active reader – SQ3R

·         Be a critical reader

·         Reading rates

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