College Reading

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College Reading

• Keys to reading more effectively

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Reading

• What affects reading success?
• How to read more effectively
• Reading efficiency
• Vocabulary

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Reading success

• What affects reading success?
• Vision
• Procrastination
• Time
• Amount
• Motivation
• Concentration
• Fatigue

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Vision

• Headaches?
• Blurry?

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What else?

• Boredom
• Procrastination
• Concentration

• Managing Time
• Procrastination
• Concentration
• Memory

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These reading issues

• Retention
• Comprehension
• Vocabulary
• Recall
• Synthesis
• Analysis

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Reading effectively

• Reading strategies
• Reading efficiency
• Vocabulary

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Reading strategies

• Skimming
• Reading difficult material
• Remembering what you read
• SQ5R

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Skimming

• Introduction
• Summary
• Subheadings
• First paragraph
• Last paragraph
• Skim
• Summary notes

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Reading difficult material

• Active approach
• Title
• First paragraph
• Main ideas
• Look up words
• Reread
• To the end

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Remembering what you read

• Association
• Visualization
• Concentration
• Repetition

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SQ5R

• Survey
• Question
• Read
• Recite
• Record
• Review
• Reflect

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Reading efficiency

• Background knowledge
• Building speed

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Building vocabulary

• Pay attention
• Dictionary
• Running lists
• Technical terminology

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Wise words

• The more that you read, the more things you
  will know. The more that you learn, the more
  places youll go. Dr. Seuss