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Reading Skills - Strategies for Success - Lecture Notes, Study notes of Career Counseling
This Strategies for Success is designed to help students achieve academic success. Students spend time in readings, reflective writing, and exercises to learn time-management strategies, explore personal learning styles, and to develop effective study habits. This lecture includes: Reading Skills, Listening Techniques, Prime the Pump, Reading Skills and Efficiency, Fundamental Part, Environment, Skimming, Intensive Reading
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Today
- Reading skills
Reading
- “Getting more from what you read” (W.H. Armstrong)
- “Reading skills” (Connections)
Homework
- Journal #7 and HW # 7 due
Q: What listening techniques did people try and how did it work out?
More tips for improving your listening
- “Prime the pump” ... stay ahead of the material (read, start homework early, think, etc)
Q: How many people study? .... How do you study?
- reading also is a key part of studying!
Today, we’re going to talk about reading skills and efficiency
Why read for learning?
- second most efficient way to learn (beside listening) ... really a form of listening
- fundamental part of studying
- your teachers expect you to read
Exercise: How efficient of a reader are you?
- Read the learning article (3 min.)
- Write down (2 min):
- Main points and ideas/concepts of the article
- Q: How did you “read” the article?
- Q: Did you take any notes?
So what is reading? ... Reading should mainly be Thinking
- understanding what is being said
- questioning the material (and often answering questions)
- agreeing or disagreeing with what is said
- remembering what is read for more thinking later
What are the goals of a “good” reader while reading?
- concentrate on what is being said ... Q: Environment?
- remember as much as possible
- apply/associate what is read to experience ... what you already know
Three general types of reading
- skimming ... for facts, general arguments, main ideas
- careful reading ... knowing what to look for, supporting details
- intensive reading ... demands total concentration, technical info
The “SQ3R” Reading Method
- S(urvey)
- skim over the “big” stuff ...
- table of contents, headings, subheadings, figures and captions, tables and captions
- abstract/intro and conclusion/summary
- jot down notes ...
- main concepts
- to organize your thoughts and get the “big picture”
- skim over the “big” stuff ...
- Q(uestion) as you survey
- think as you survey
- ask how it relates to lecture material
- anticipate what will be said, the arguments
- again, jot down your notes