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Muscle Reading

Learn the nine steps of muscle reading, a technique to extract information effectively. Discover how to pry out questions, root up answers, and recite, review, and review again. Enhance your reading comprehension with this acrostic process.

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Muscle Reading

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  1. Muscle Reading Presentation By Richard L. Wright

  2. What is Muscle Reading? • Muscle Reading is a three-phase technique that one can use to accomplish information extraction. Each phase of the three phases has three steps.

  3. What is one way to remember all nine steps? • One way to remember all nine steps is to memorize the following three short sentences: • Pry out questions • Root up answers. • Recite, review, and review again. • These sentences are an acrostic. The first letter of each word stands for one Muscle Reading process.

  4. Pry Out Questions, • Pry • Preview • Out • Outline • Questions • Question

  5. Root Up Answers • Root • Read • Up • Underline • Answers • Answer

  6. Recite, Review, and Review again • Recite • Recite • Review • Review • Review again • Review

  7. What is another way of looking at the three phases? • Before you read: Pry out questions. • While you read: Root up answers. • After you read: Recite, review, and review again.

  8. What is another way of looking at the nine steps? • Step 1: Preview • Step 2: Outline • Step 3: Question • Step 4: Read • Step 5: Underline • Step 6: Answer • Step 7: Recite • Step 8: Review • Step 9: Review again

  9. Step 1 Preview-survey material • Improved comprehension • Book/table of contents • Keep the preview short • Look for familiar concepts, facts, ideas • Ideas/spark imagination curiosity • How can material relate to your LTG • Inspect, drawings, charts, tables, graphs

  10. Step 2 Outline • Amount of time on this step will vary • Complex material take time to understand structure • Study textbook chapter outlines • If not textbook chapter outlines make one • Section titles/paragraph headlines serve major/minor topics outline • Outlining makes complex information easier to understand

  11. Step 3 Question • Ask yourself what you want from an assignment before you begin • Write down a list of questions • Turn chapter headings and section titles into questions • Purpose of asking questions is to get your brain involved • Questions formulated help you stay alert during difficult reading

  12. Step 4 Read • Begin reading • Be with your reading in the now • Avoid marathon reading sessions • For difficult reading set shorter goals • Visualize the material • Read it aloud • Do not read in bed

  13. Step 5 Underline • Use your text books • Making marks in a textbook creates signals for reviewing • Being physical with your books builds strong neural pathways • Underline only what is important • Underline sparingly less than 10 percent • Write in the margins of the text summary statements/questions

  14. Step 6 Answer • Read get answers to your questions write them down fill outline

  15. Step 7 Recite • Talk to yourself/friend about what you had read • Find a friend and teach your friend and have your friend teach you

  16. Step 8 Review • Completely review within 24 hours so information will go from short term memory to long term memory • During review look over your notes clear up points • Recite main points • Relearn material

  17. Step 9 Review again • Weekly or monthly review • Review using 3 by 5 cards • Reread difficult assignments • Schedule some review periods in advance • Keep your reviews short and do reviews often • Develop a habit of regular reviews

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