Text Book Reading Strategies

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Text Book Reading Strategies

• Reading to Comprehend and Learn

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Using a Reading Method

• Why use a reading method?
• It directs your focus
• Efficient and Effective
• It saves time
• It gets what you want in the minimum time
• It works!!

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Reading Using the PSQ5R Method

• PSQ5R
• A formula that stands for the basic steps in
  learning from reading in an efficient manner.

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PSQ5R

• P stands for Purpose
• S for Survey
• Q for Question
• 5 Rs for Read Selectively, Recite, Reduce-record,
  Reflect, and Review.

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PSQ5R - Step 1

• Purpose
• Ask why are you reading this article or chapter.
• Ask what do you want to get out of it?
• Step one - Establishing your purpose

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Purpose Step One

• Theme or Main Idea
• Main Facts or Figures
• Evidence
• Arguments
• Examples
• Relations
• Methods, Directions. . . .

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Survey or Skim Step Two

• Why Survey or Skim before reading?
• Gives an overview of the piece
• Helps identify focus
• What is the central theme?
• Main idea(s), problems and questions being
  discussed?
• What is the authors perceptive
• How does the author treat the focus

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Survey/Skim Step Two

• Should take no more than a minute or two
• Scan
• titles, subtitles, headings,
• graphs, charts, pictures
• lead paragraphs, summaries, conclusions

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Question Step 3

• Compose questions that you will work toward
  answering
• Ask what you already know about the subject
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