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Surveying a Chapter/ Marking a Textbook

Learn effective strategies for surveying chapters and marking textbooks, including the SQ3R method and Questions-in-the-Margins approach.

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Surveying a Chapter/ Marking a Textbook

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  1. Surveying a Chapter/Marking a Textbook

  2. Three Steps to Effective Reading Before, During, After

  3. Step One • Before • Find a good reading/study area • Make a commitment to study • Review your previous readings • Survey the Chapter and create questions for yourself

  4. Step two • During • Distribute your learning time/Organize your reading • Think about what you’re reading – Be here, now! • Start condensing information • Be an active reader – Use the “Questions in the Margins System”

  5. Step Three • After • Do immediate and later reviews • Test yourself constantly

  6. Two ways to read • SQ3R • Survey • Question • Read, Recite, Review • Questions-in-the-Margins • Survey • Question • Read • Questions in the Margin • Recite, Review, Reflect

  7. Surveying a ChapterQuestions in the Margin • Think about the title. • Read the Introduction and the Summary • Look over Headings and Subheadings • Take note of information set apart from the text. • Glance at the visuals. • Do this quickly, to get yourself ready to concentrate, to allow yourself time to reflect on what you already know about the topic. • Creates a background • Provides advanced organizers • Limbers the mind • Overcomes mental inertia

  8. QuestionsQuestions in the Margin Turn the heading into a question Make yourself think! Interrogate the writer. Ask basic questions What evidence does the writer give? What’s the underlying principle? If this is true, what logically follows? If this is true, how does it affect my existing knowledge? How does this fit in with the rest of the chapter? What questions might I be asked about this?

  9. ReadingQuestions in the Margin • Find the topic sentence of each paragraph • “Am I getting it?” • Backdoor technique – Ask for help, but only after answering the question “What is it I don’t understand.”

  10. Questions in the Margin • Different kind of questions – not turning a heading into a question, but instead telegraphic questions about the content. • These questions are answered by marking the text – underlining the key words and phrases that make up the answer.

  11. RecitingQuestions in the Margin • Read your questions aloud, unless you’re in the library!! • Recite the answers to create time for a memory trace to develop. • Use tag words – first, second, third, on one hand, on the other hand, however, finally • Role play while you recite. Pretend you’re taking a test, pretend you’re answering a question in front of the class

  12. ReviewQuestions in the Margin • Immediately Put together all the pieces of the puzzle. • Later To ensure retention To make testing less stressful To contextualize new material To connect new learning to old – look for categories, characteristics, differences, functions, relationships

  13. Reciter Follows the ideas and facts. Is bound by course outline. Is diligent and disciplined in memorizing, but distant. Reflector Pursues ideas beyond the text. Is adventurous and experimental and internalizes material. Sees the big picture. Applies the learning to various situations. Thinks, speculates, pushes the boundaries. Reflect – “To survive academically you have to recite. To grow in creativity and wisdom, you have to reflect” (287). Questions in the Margin

  14. Activity • Create a matrix to compare these textbooks. • What are your points of comparison? (Have at least 4). • Detail the differences between the books based on these points. • Discuss how noting these differences is relevant to the task at hand – learning how to read a textbook. • Come back to the group and share your matrixes and your discussion.

  15. Marking a TextMethod 1 • Standard System • Finish reading before marking • Be extremely selective • Use your own words • Work swiftly • Work neatly • Use cross-referencing • Be systematic

  16. Figure 12.1 • Check out the 12 standard system markings. • Look at pages S21-S22 (Keys to Attraction) in the back of your text and mark them using these standard markings.

  17. Marking the TextMethod 2 • Questions in the Margin • Survey • Read a paragraph at a time and think about the question “What’s important here?” • Write a question about the most important material in the paragraph in the margin. • Underline key words and phrases that answer that question. • Read pages S-18–S-19 (Prejudice and Streotypes). • Mark the text using the Questions in the Margin Method.

  18. Marking the TextMethod 3 • Separate Notes System • Cornell note-taking system • (Draw diagram on the board) • Finish reading before you take notes • Notes consist of one sentence summaries of the paragraphs or main sections • Be extremely sellective • Use your own words • Put key words in the 2 ½ inch margin • Summarize at the foot of the page • Look at page S-20–S-21 (Reducing Prejudice) • Take notes using the separate notes system

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