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Academic skills plan for reading - Coggle Diagram
Academic skills plan for reading
Before reading
Approaching reading with a positive attitude
Attitude influences the choices you make
Replace negative attitudes with positive ones
You can learn virtually any information or skill
Create a distributed reading schedule
Spread many shorter sessions over an entire course
Concentrate for your entire reading session
Recall what you read
Read when you are most alert
Read when you can concentrate
Quiet corner in the library or an empty room
A place that eliminates distractions
Turn off your cell phone
Open your book and dive in
Review past readings
Glance at pages you have previously read
Jog your memory and prepare for what you read
Review marks and comments
Learn the new information or skill faster and more deeply
Preview before reading
Increases understanding
Note any words that are specially formatted
Helpful overview of what you read
Do a quick read
Skim an entire assignment
Helpful prereading strategy
Good option when you have only a few minutes
Identify the purpose of what you're reading
Create a list of questions
Turn chapter titles or section headings into uestions
Heightens your concentration
Increases your actie involvement
Improves your understanding
While reading
Read in chunks
Read ideas
Increase your speed, comprehension
Concentrate on reading faster
Increase reading speed
Pause to recite
Summerize what you understand to be the main ideas and supporting details
Instant feedback about your understand
Read aloud the words you have underlined or highlighted
Keep working actively with the ideas until you understand them completely
Read for answers to questions on your list
Create a list of questions
Look for and underline the answer
Write new questions and their answers
Underline the answer
Write the questions in the margin alongside
Mark your text
Keep asking yourself
Identifying main and supporting ideas
Underline with a pen or pencil
Highlight with a colored accent marker
Circle specialized terms and underline their definitions
Place a symbol in the margin to draw attention to an important idea
Place a question mark next to a puzzling idea you want to ask about in class
Collecting these ideas tto create effective study materials
Annotate your text
Writing your own comments
Minimize mindless reading
Maximize your understanding
Some ways to annotate
Summerize an important idea in your own words
Draw a diagram or picture to represent information
Underline the answer to a question and write the question in the margin alongside
Write questions you want to ask in class
Create a written conversation with the author
Take notes
Writing the chapter title at the top of your note page or computer file
Copy the first main heading from the chapter
Add any subheadings from your book below the main heading
Read for IOUs(Interesting or Usable)
Raise your level of concentration
Look for anything you think is interesting or usable
Look for something practical or usable
Look up the definition of key words
Use a dictionary when you don't know the meaning of a key word
Start a vocabulary list in your journal
Online dictionaries
Use context clues to determine the meaning of key words
Synonyms
Antonyms
Illustration
Explanations
Read critically
Learn to read critically by being a healthy skeptic
Look for red flags that may suggest a credibility problem
Apply special strategies for reading mathematics
Apply special strategies for reading science
Apply special strategies for reading literature
Understand graphic information
After reading
Reflect on what you read
Reread difficult passages
Recite the marked text
Talk about what you read
Explain the main ideas and supporting details
Left out something important
Read another book on the same subject
Ask your instructor or a librarian to suggest other readings
Try a book on the same topic written for children
Seek assistance
Ask your instructor to explain muddy points
Specialists may be able to help you improve your reading skills