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Academic skills plan for reading - Coggle Diagram
Academic skills plan for reading
Before reading
Reading with a positive attitude
Create a distributed reading schedule-don’t read in a marathon
Read when you are most alert
Preview before reading-look at table of contents, bold, capital, chapter objectives
Do a quick read
Read where you can concentrate
Identify the purpose of what you are reading
Review past readings-glance at chapter titles and text headings to jog your memory
Create a list of questions
While reading
Take notes
Read for Interesting and Useable information
Annotate your text-add comments and summarize
Mark your text-what is the main idea?
Look up the definition of key words
Write new questions and their answers
Use context clues to determine the meaning of key words
Read for answers to questions on your list
Read critically
Pause to recite
Apply special strategies for reading math-pause after each step to make sure there is understanding
Concentrate on reading faster
Apply special strategies for science-question, hypotheses, experimental evidence, and conclusions
Read in chunks
Apply special strategies for reading literature-theme, plot
Understand graphic information
After reading
Recite the marked text
Talk about what you read
Reread difficult passages
Read another book on the same subject
Reflect on what you read
Seek assistance