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Effective Reading Strategies

Enhance your reading skills with this workshop. Learn to differentiate between passive and active reading, predict, question, visualize, and make connections while reading. Develop strategies to understand and analyze various types of reading material effectively.

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Effective Reading Strategies

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  1. Effective Reading Strategies Kortschak Center for Learning and Creativity

  2. Learning Outcomes: By completing this workshop, you will be able to: • Assess effective reading strategies • Differentiatebetween passive reading and active reading • Incorporate strategies to better understand and efficiently break down reading material

  3. Before Reading: • Factual: Descriptive, informational, and procedural • Persuasive: Exposition, discussion, and a mixture of facts supporting one’s opinion • Literary: Narrative, analysis about a narrative or poem

  4. While Reading: • Predict • Question and Infer Meaning • Visualize • Make Connections

  5. Predicting: The process of prediction helps improve understanding: • Make prediction on findings • Evaluate prediction • Revise prediction

  6. Questioning and Inferring: Reading between the lines: • Identify underlying themes • Draw working conclusions • Identify and analyze a relationship between two or more concepts

  7. Visualization: Create an interpretation of the text, visualize: • Settings, characters, and actions • Graphs, diagrams, and processes

  8. Making Connections: Three ways to help make meaningful connections: • Underline important content • Summarize content, create personal analogies • Teaching the material to someone else • Selecting main ideas and clustering content

  9. References Dembo, M.H. & Seli, H. (2016). Motivation and learning strategies for college success. Publication manual of the American Psychological Association, 6th Edition. Washington, D.C. American Psychological Association. Duke, N. K. & Pearson, (2005).Effective practices for developing reading comprehension. Retrieved from http://www.ctap4.org/ infolit/trainers/comprehe_strategies.pdf Küçükoglu, H. (2012). Improving reading skills through effective reading strategies. Retrieved from https://journals-sagepub-com.libproxy1.usc.edu/doi/abs/10.1177/0022057409189001-208

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