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SQ4R

Reading College Textbooks

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Benefits of Active Reading

As an active reader, you will:• Be less likely to slip into automatic pilot

• Be using powerful multisensory strategies

• Increase your reading comprehension

• Know how to select effective strategies for different kinds of materials


Essential Strategies for Textbook Reading

• Begin with a clear intention to understand what you read.

• Use an organized system for reading textbook chapters.

• Be inquisitive.

• Manage your textbook reading time effectively.

• Use spaced practice or spaced studying.

• Relate new information to existing information in your long-term memory


Four Levels of Reading

1. Recreational (Not in class)

2.Overview

3.Thorough

4.Comparative


Surveying to Get an Overview

Surveying is the process of previewing or skimming through information to get an overview or a big picture of the content before you begin thorough reading.


Surveying to Get an Overview (Cont)

Surveying:• Activates existing working memory

• Sets the stage to create new associations

• Enhances motivation and interest

• Breaks inertia or tendency to procrastinate

• Boosts confidence

• Provides information about length and difficulty of the reading material

• Helps you set realistic goals and manage your time


Surveying a Textbook


Surveying a Chapter


Formulating Questions

Formulating questions is an active reading strategy that provides you with a purpose for reading, elevates your curiosity, increases comprehension, and helps maintain a focus.

The questions and then the answers create memory cues or associations to recall information later.

• Write questions before you read.

• Write questions as you read.

• Write questions after you read.


The Steps of SQ4R


The Steps of SQ4R (Cont)


Reading History Textbooks

Textbooks involve sequence of events in a narrative form.

Create timelines to show the sequence of events.

Look for patterns and trends, cause and effect relationships, and major shifts in political, social, and cultural directions.

Create visual images and movies in your mind.

Memorize specific facts (names, dates, treaties, wars, and definitions).

Read other accounts of the same events for alternative perspectives.

An Introduction to WHAP Reading

• Read the Introduction to WHAP using the SQ4R method

• We will cover one step at a time

• Class time will be provided for this activity

• The majority of Future reading will be done individually at home

• A reading quiz will follow this activity on Tuesday, August 25th.



The Steps of SQ4R

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