A Strategy for Reading Textbooks

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A Strategy for Reading Textbooks

• Adelita G. Cantu, PhD(c), RN
• Juntos Podemos

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The Strategy

• PPreview what you are going to read.
• QQuestion what you are going to learn after the
  preview
• 3RRead, Recite, and Review

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PPreview

• Uses less time than the Q and 3R steps.
• Can be very helpful.
• Look over carefully what you are going to read.
• Look for main ideas and subjects.
• Notice any new vocabulary.
• Form an impression about what you are going to
  read.
• Practice on this page-quickly look over the words
  that are in bold type.

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QQuestion

• Form a question in your mind about what you are
  about to read and learn.
• Learn to identify main points and not get bogged
  down in detail. Instructors often give cues by
  repeating information, changing their voices or
  rate of delivery, and listing items in order of
  importance.
• Practice on this pageform a question like Am I
  going to learn a better way to read?

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RRead, Recite, and Review

• Read-read the assignment. Try to prepare for each
  lecture by prereading the material. You will find
  that you will understand the lecture better if
  you have some basic background. This preparation
  is one that very few students take seriously.
• Recite-stop every once in a while, look up from
  the book, and put in you own works what you have
  just read.
• Review-after you have finished, review the main
  points.
• After you are finished, go back and reread
  sections that you are not sure of.

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Lastly,

• Always take notes from your reading. If you
  highlight something, write it in your notes.
  Simply highlighting something doesnt help you
  remember the information!