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Title: College Reading


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College Reading
  • Of all the skills necessary to succeed in
    college, the two most important are
  • Reading the intake of information
  • Writing the production of information
  • In this presentation, we deal with how to make
    your reading skills work for you

Read it! Process it! Use it!
2
Tips for Improving Reading Ability
Take a book to lunch this week!
  • Find a quiet study location.
  • Read in 50-minute blocks with breaks in between.
  • Take notes, recite key ideas or jot down
    questions in the margins.
  • Experiment with your reading rate.
  • Focus on key issues in the text.

Show them were a regular bunch this week!
Make books your buddies...
3
Reviewing
  • Review to remember the main points of the
    material.
  • Test yourself on your comprehension.
  • Some ways to review
  • notes
  • study questions
  • flash cards
  • visual maps
  • outlines
  • Make reviewing every week a study goal.

Reviewing is an excellent memory aid.
4
Developing Your Vocabulary
  • Consider the context around new and challenging
    words.
  • Jot down unfamiliar terms and find the meaning
    using a dictionary.
  • Analyze terms to discover the most meaningful
    part of the word.
  • Take the opportunity to use new terms in your
    writing and speaking.

Learn to read outside the box!
5
Take Charge of Your Reading
  • Before all else, if you dont like to read,
    accept the importance of the skill and work on
    it. This is CRITICAL to your success!
  • Commit to reading goals
  • Plan time and space to concentrate
  • Capture and connect
  • Know how to read primary and secondary sources.
  • Preview and Review

6
Important Points About College Reading
Take that! Unworthy adversary of reading!
  • Instructors do NOT always cover the reading
    material in lecture.
  • You are expected to read the material and
    understand it on your own.
  • Successful students complete assigned readings
    before class to help them understand the lecture.
  • Connections and overlaps between lecture and
    reading reinforce learning.
  • Also, reading ahead prevents you from being
    embarrassed when you are called on to discuss
    what youve read!

7
Commit to Reading Goals
  • Stay positive, reading can be enjoyable.
  • Make the author your companion.
  • Pace yourself according to difficulty level.
  • Take breaks.
  • Read other sources if the reading is confusing.
  • Keep building your vocabulary.
  • When necessary, skim readings for key points and
    terms.
  • Make understanding the material of prime
    importance.

The need to read is great indeed!
8
Plan Time and Space to Concentrate
  • College reading takes a great deal of
    concentration.
  • Schedule time to read in a place where you wont
    be interrupted.
  • Find an environment in which you can concentrate
    best.
  • If you must read in a noisy environment, consider
    wearing headphones with familiar instrumental
    music just loud enough to block distractions.

9
Capture and Connect
  • Elements of Your Reading Plan
  • Preview
  • Skimming
  • Active Reading
  • Analytic Reading
  • Review

10
Preview
This is a lot of work! Who needs it?
  • Scan the material to see what lies ahead.
  • Consider the context for the assignment.
  • Consider the length of the reading assignment and
    estimate how long it will take.
  • Consider the structure and features of the
    reading to help you digest the material.
  • Consider the difficulty and plan your time
    accordingly.

wrong!
11
Skimming
  • Skimming covers the content at a general level.
  • It involves reading at about twice your normal
    rate.
  • Focus on introductory statements, topic sentences
    and boldface terms.
  • Provides the chance for you to see what kind of
    information the assignment contains
  • Enables you to gather the surface ideas if you
    dont have enough time to read deeply.

12
Active Reading
  • Use it to avoid empty readingreading then
    realizing that no information has come across.
  • Immerse yourself in what the author is trying to
    say.
  • Focus on identifying the main ideas and on
    understanding how supporting points reinforce
    those ideas.

13
Analytic Reading
  • Reading at a more intense level.
  • Involves breaking ideas open and digging
    underneath their surface.
  • Enables you to try to spot flaws in the writers
    logic.
  • Promotes a comparison of the work to other works.
  • Should involve questioning the author and
    yourself.

14
Review
  • Reviewing the assignment makes the main points
    stand out and makes them easier to remember.
  • It is an opportunity to test yourself on your
    comprehension.
  • Reviewing consolidates learning.

15
Know How to Read Primary and Secondary Sources
  • Primary Source - material written in some
    original form more difficult reading level.
  • Autobiographies
  • Speeches
  • Research Reports
  • Government Documents
  • Scholarly Articles
  • Secondary Source - summarizes or interprets
    primary sources
  • Magazine Articles
  • Textbooks

16
Highlighting Text
emphasize recognize!
  • Highlight
  • Topic sentences, Key words, Conclusions
  • But watch out!
  • Highlighting too much can cause you to re-read
    everything because you dont know whats
    important.
  • Highlighting doesnt show you why you
    highlighted something
  • You need to have the entire text with you to
    review.

17
Take Notes on the Text
  • Summarize
  • Outline
  • Use the Cornell Method
  • Use Concept Maps

18
Elements of Your Reading Plan
Preview
Intensity of Effort
Skim
Active reading
Analytic reading
Review
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A Summary of Strategies to Improve Reading
  • Practice a positive attitude.
  • Make the author your companion.
  • Pace yourself according to difficulty level.
  • Take breaks to restore concentration.
  • Shift gears when you do not make progress.
  • Read other sources if the reading is confusing.
  • Build your vocabulary.
  • Work on reading faster.
  • Increase your accountability for reading.

Great readers make great students!
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