Reading strategies

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Reading strategies

• SQ3R

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Reading difficulty

• DEFINITION OF LITERACY- The ability to use
  printed and written information
• to function in society
• to achieve ones goals
• to develop ones knowledge and potential.

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Literacy statistics

• Below Basic 30 million adults (14 of
  population)
• no more than the most simple and concrete
  literacy skills
• Basic 63 million adults (29 of population)
• can perform simple and everyday literacy
  activities
• Intermediate 95 million adults (44 of
  population)
• can perform moderately challenging literacy
  activities
• Proficient 28 million adults (13 of population)
• can perform complex and challenging literacy
  activities

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Which group do you belong to?

• Currently, you belong to the third group (as do
  most students entering college)
• Intermediate (44 of population) can perform
  moderately challenging literacy activities
• Prospectively, you should strive toward belonging
  to the last group
• Proficient (13 of population) can perform
  complex and challenging literacy activities

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Reading difficulty

• We live during an age where technology provides
  ease and convenience.
• We rely on technology to do the simplest tasks
  and we can easily become too relaxed, complacent
  or lazy.
• And anything that we have to work at, anything
  that challenges us, we try to avoidthis is the
  biggest complaint about reading.
• Lets face it it has to compete with
  television, music, socializing, and/or the
  internet.

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Reading difficulty

• Students are frustrated most by their lack of
  understanding or reading comprehension.
• If you dont understand the material then you
  cannot engage with it, and you certainly wont be
  interested by it.
• But how can you judge the material if you cant
  understand it?
• Reading comprehension is essential for college
  success.
• Consider how much reading is necessary for the
  courses you are taking now, and what about future
  classes?

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Reading strategies to accomplish your goal

• Reading students, or students in general, dont
  have to be defeated by difficult material.
• There are reading strategies that can help you
  conquer difficult reading material.
• Like SAGE, SQ3R is an important acronym for
  reading students.
• Traditionally, SQ3R means
• SURVEY
• QUESTION
• READ
• RECITE
• REVIEW

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Sq3r (For the purpose of this course)

• Survey Preview Material before reading
• Question Ask and/or anticipate questions
  about the reading.
• Read Read thoroughly.
• Recall-Recite-Review Recall and recite details
  from the reading. Review the material and any
  questions you came up with.
• Reread Read again.

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Survey

• Read the title and make sure youre familiar with
  the subject.
• If youre not familiar with the subject, perhaps
  you should do a quick search on the internet.
• Read any headings or subheadings for the
  different sections in the reading.
• This gives you a quick preview.
• Most importantly, read the first and last
  sentence of every paragraph.
• This indicates the topic and main idea.

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• Watch out for any typographical signs
• Underlining
• Highlighting
• Bold-faced print
• Italicized print
• Take a closer look at illustrations, such as
  charts or graphs.
• This is a visual representation of key ideas in
  the section next to where the chart/graph is
  located.
• Take notice of listing or numbering
• This indicates an outline it breaks down the
  information youll be reading in simple terms.

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Questions

• Predict questions youll during the reading or
  even after.
• Look up the questions at the end of the reading
  so that you can identify the answers as you read.
• Predict test questions
• What is the topic?
• What is the main idea?
• How does the author support the main idea
  supporting details?

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Read

• Read very carefully and very thoroughly.
• Stop whenever you get tired and refocus.
• Stop at any point where you stop understanding
  the material and begin again.
• Stop periodically to review or summarize what
  youve read so far.
• Review quizzing yourself looking over notes
• Summarize putting the authors ideas into your
  own words
• Re-read.

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High light high light high light

• All students should make it a habit to underline,
  mark or highlight key ideas.
• Dont go crazy and highlight what you think might
  be important!
• Highlight only those terms you believe are
  important and signify something to you.
• Students that arbitrarily mark up the text, dont
  learn anything or recall later what theyve
  marked.

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Recall RECITEReview

• They all mean pretty much the same thing!
• After the reading, try to recall
• The main idea
• The details that support it
• Any key concepts
• Any key terms
• Make sure that your questions from the
  Questioning Stage have been answered.
• Predict future test questions.
• Create an outline.
• Students that create an outline demonstrate their
  understanding of the material.
• Demonstrate their understanding of how the
  material has been organized.
• This will help that student to later recall key
  ideas, and participate more readily in class.

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Re-Read

• This will reinforce your reading and help you to
  retain key ideas.
• And it gives you one more opportunity to pick up
  any details you may have missed during the first
  reading.