How To Enhance Skills For Reading Comprehension

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How To Enhance Skills For Reading Comprehension -
The SQ3R Method
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SQ3R

• SQ3R is a Reading Comprehension Method.
• Introduced by Francis Pleasant Robinson in his
  book Effective Study in 1946.
• A method developed for school and college
  students for enhancing their reading skills.
• A method similar to the PQRST and KWL Table

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SQ3R Stands For

• Survey/Skim
• Question
• Read
• Recite/Rewrite/Recall
• Review

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Survey/Skim

• Survey/Skim is a point that refers to the fact of
  briefly observing the whole content before
  beginning the in-depth reading of the book.
• A quick view of the topics, headings and
  sub-headings and such information in the text is
  the main aspect of survey.
• It simply means briefly skimming through the
  whole content and context that is present in the
  book.

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questions

• When you are done skimming and surveying the
  topics, the next step is to create and formulate
  questions of various types.
• Questions can vary from the normal type of
  queries that may consist of a variety where it
  may be a normal question about the topic/heading
  or sub heading, or any such featured content
  that caught your attention while skimming through
  the book.

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read

• Now you can begin the reading part and go down
  in-depth.
• Again, following the previous two steps here
  helps understand the various topics, subtopics,
  headings etc. in a healthy manner.
• You can formulate more questions while going
  through the topics, as there might come various
  issues that would clear out at other topics and
  heading.
• This Read part is also meant to concentrate on
  the previous questions that were formulated on
  the Q part of the SQ3R.

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Recite

• Referred as Recite/write/RecallThis is an
  important phase where one can recall every small
  and major aspect/point while reading
  comprehensive passage.
• This is meant to cover all the questions that are
  formed in the Q part of the SQ3R method.
• It can be done orally or in written form as well.

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Review

• Review is most important among all the parts.
• This section is used mainly to clear out the
  various questions that one notes down while
  reading the whole passage in depth.
• It refines the whole central idea that you might
  assume while reading the comprehension.
• This also provides a better learning curve for
  the reader and helps them understand and learn it
  better.
• Memorizing the comprehension becomes easier.

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• This is quite effective method for enhancing the
  reading and learning phase of students, may that
  be a college or normal school student.
• Useful method for those who appear in competitive
  exams, practicing the technique enhances and
  reduces the time consumption for each Reading
  Comprehensions and such part for the exams.

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• How To Enhance Skills For Reading Comprehension -
  The SQ3R Method

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