Reading Strategies - Week 8
I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading opened to me. I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever the course of my life. As I see it today, the ability to read awoke in me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.
–Malcolm X
Do you find yourself falling asleep while reading your textbooks? Do you get to the end of a paragraph and not remember anything that you’ve read? If so, you may want to develop active reading skills. An active reader does the following:
- Invents questions about the reading and looks for answers
- Locates the main points and differentiates them from supporting details
- Takes notes--not only about the text but about her/his questions and reactions
- Considers how the ideas in the text relate to his/her life experience and to other course materials (lectures, etc.)
For more information on becoming an active reader, consult the links below.
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