Strategies for Textbook Reading Chapter 1

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Strategies for Textbook ReadingChapter 1

• SQ3R

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SQ3R A Reading -Study Strategy

• Survey
• Question
• Read
• Recite
• Review

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Step One -- Survey

• To survey the chapter means to preview the
  chapter before you read it.
• The Three Goals of Surveying to get
• A general overview
• A feeling for the writers style and organization
• A sense of whats important
• An idea of the chapters natural breaks or
  divisions

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How to Survey (7 steps)

• Read the title
• Read any introductory material. Pay attention to
  chapter outlines, lists of questions, goals, and
  objectives.
• 3. Formulate a general question about the
  chapters overall point or points.
• 4. Read each heading and the first sentence
  following each heading.

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Survey -- 7 Steps (continued)

• 5. Look at all visual aids. Read all captions
  and explanations accompanying the graphics.
• 6. Read all bold-printed or italicized words and
  words in the margins.
• 7. Read end-of-the-chapter summaries and
  questions, or read the last page if there is no
  summary.

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Why Survey?

• Get the big picture
• Decide whats important
• Know the main points
• Connect what you already know to what you dont
  know
• Prepare to read

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Step Two -- Question

• Turn chapter headings/subheadings into questions
  to guide your reading
• Ask what?
• Ask who?
• Ask why?
• Ask how?
• Where? and when? questions give you a very
  limited answer.

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Example HeadingLanguage Symbolizes Reality

• Ask
• What does it mean to say language symbolizes
  reality?
• How does the nature of language affect our verbal
  messages?
• Why does language symbolize reality?

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Why Question

• Stay focused
• Gives purpose
• Creates interest

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Step Three -- Read

• Never study read without a highlighter and pencil
  in your hand.
• Read to answer your guide questions for each
  section and subsection. Rereading is common.
  Read every word.
• Underline and/or highlight. Be selective.
• Underline/highlight only the words and phrases
  you need. When you go back and reread your
  underlining or highlighting, the text should have
  meaning.

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Read (continued)

• Make notes in the margins.
• Mark important text items such as dates, names,
  concepts, and key points. Use circles, stars,
  arrows, numbers.
• Your goal is to read the chapter thoroughly only
  once.

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Why Read

• To gain information
• To prepare for lecture
• To prepare for discussion
• To prepare for tests

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Vary Your Reading Rate

• Adjust the speed with which you read!
• Dont be afraid to SLOW DOWN if the text becomes
  difficult

• Reading Rates include
• Scanning
• Skimming
• Study Reading
• Close or Analytical Reading

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Step Four -- Recite

• To recite means to say something out loud.
• After each section, stop and test your
  comprehension

• Recite the answers to your guide questions

• Write out your own answers

• Put it in your own words
• Write a summary or create an outline
• Write notes (in book or on paper)
• Create 3x5 (or 4x6) cards

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Why Recite?

• Improves concentration
• Helps you remember the material
• When to Recite?
• Immediately after reading each section

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Review after reading

• Look at the headings and see what you can
  remember about each one
• Skim over your underlined/highligthed words
• Add margin notes and markings
• Before tests
• MAKE AN INFORMAL OUTLINE!
• (See page 19 in RFR for an example)

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Highlighting/Underlining

• Be selective
• Highlight/underline key points
• Highlight/underline just enough to use as review

According to procrastination expert Neil Fiore,
Ph.D., fear of failure is the main reason why
people postpone the inevitable. Thus,
procrastinators delay because of their anxiety
about not having the required skills, or
knowledge to complete the task at hand. They
would rather fail to try rather than be exposed
as stupid or incapable.
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Writing in the margins

• Summarize key points
• Compare opposing points of view
• Cite your own personal experience
• Jot down potential test questions.

Brocas area located in left frontal region.
The first is Brocas area, located in the left
frontal region near the motor cortex. Patients
who have damage in this area etc. Wernickes
area, is in the temporal region of the left
hemisphere etc.
Wernickes area located in temporal region.
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Strategies for remembering new words

• Circle new words in the book(s) you are reading
• Write the word in your Vocabulary Journal (and
  look up the meaning)
• Create a visual image of the word
• Monarchy means rule by one person
• Imagine someone wearing a crown sitting on a
  throne
• Incorporate the new words into your emails or
  conversations
• USE IT OR LOSE IT!