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Organizing Reading Material

Organizing Reading Material. By Laura S. Young, M.A. Dev. Reading Instructor, Northern Virginia Community College, 2004. Understanding how reading material is organized helps us to make connections to the material we are reading.

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Organizing Reading Material

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  1. Organizing Reading Material By Laura S. Young, M.A. Dev. Reading Instructor, Northern Virginia Community College, 2004

  2. Understanding how reading material is organized helps us to make connections to the material we are reading.

  3. Finding supporting details as we read helps us understand the organization of reading material.

  4. Major Details explain and develop the main idea. Minor Details help make major details clear. Two Levels of Supporting Details

  5. Supporting details are often seen in the form of: • Reasons, examples, facts, steps, and other evidence that explains the main idea.

  6. Review Finding supporting details helps us understand the organization of the reading material we are reading. This helps us to connect to the reading material.

  7. Other Ways to Connect with Reading Material Outlining/Mapping • Visual ways to see relationships between the main idea and supporting details.

  8. Summarizing • Reducing a large amount of material to its most important points.

  9. Notetaking • Jotting down brief sentence summaries of important information from the reading.

  10. Annotating • Highlighting main ideas and significant supporting details in reading, writing questions in the text margins, summarizing paragraphs and sections in text margins, and writing your personal reactions in the text margins about ideas the author presents.

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