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Building Your Reading Skills - Effective Strategies for Better Comprehension

Learn how to sharpen your reading skills, improve retention, and read for understanding with these effective strategies. Discover how to organize your reading, manage distractions, and evaluate and apply the main ideas.

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Building Your Reading Skills - Effective Strategies for Better Comprehension

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  1. Chapter 6Building Your Reading Skills

  2. Sharpen Your Reading Skills 6-2 • What kind of reader are you? What do you like to read? • What’s your reading style? • Read for retention, not speed • Reading too fast decreases comprehension • Choose to read for understanding, not speed

  3. Building Your Reading Skills - Prepare 6-3 • Use advance organizers • Outlines, overviews, section objectives • Know your goal for the reading assignment • Test material? Secondary material? Personal information? • Understand the point of view of the material itself

  4. Building Your Reading Skills - Prepare 6-4 • Start with the frontmatter • Preface, table of contents • This identifies what the author considers to be important • Use advance organizers • Chapter outlines, section headings, end-of-chapter summaries • Use guidance from your instructor on how to approach the chapter and what to focus on

  5. Building Your Reading Skills – Organize 6-5 • Gather what you need to read • Highlighters, pens, a copy of your reading assignment, paper or index cards for note-taking, a dictionary • Determine how long your reading assignment will take • What is your per-page reading speed for comprehension? • How long is your assignment? • What is your attention span? • Allow for interruptions

  6. Building Your Reading Skills - Work 6-6 • Stay focused • Read in small bites • Give yourself enough time for the assignment • Take a break • Deal with mental distractions • Manage interruptions

  7. Building Your Reading Skills - Work 6-7 • Write while you read • You own your text…make the most of it by writing in it while you read • Rephrase key points • Highlight or underline key points (read the whole paragraph through first) • Use visuals to help recall information • Use a reading system that works for you

  8. Dealing with Learning Disabilities 6-8 • Difficulties in processing information in reading, writing, listening, or speaking, such as: • Dyslexia • ADHD • Learning disabilities do not mean a lack of intelligence and bear no relationship to IQ

  9. Dealing with Learning Disabilities 6-9 • Seek help if you have trouble processing information • Specific treatments are available • Colleges have a legal obligation to help students with learning disabilities by providing accommodations • Trouble with reading assignments does not necessarily mean there is a learning disability

  10. Building Your Reading Skills - Evaluate 6-10 • What does it all mean? • Identify main themes and apply them to you personally • Prioritize the ideas • Assess the author’s points • Summarize the material aloud • Reread passage, if necessary • Congratulate yourself for finishing the reading

  11. Building Your Reading Skills - Rethink 6-11 • Rethink what you’ve read within 24 hours of initially reading it • Reread more difficult passages, skim less difficult ones • Think deeply about the material • Use concept mapping to graphically group and connect main ideas

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