2. Read and Remember
• Prepare: Approach the written word
thoughtfully
• Organize: Gather the tools
• Work: Get the most out of your reading
• Evaluate: Consider what it means
• Rethink: Get it the second time
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3. Sharpen Your Reading Skills
• What kind of reader are you? What do
you like to read?
• Read for retention, not speed
– Reading too fast decreases comprehension
– Choose to read for understanding, not speed
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4. Your Reading Skills – Prepare
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SQ3R:
–Survey –advanced organizers
–Question – credibility & goal
–Read- get into it
–Recite - outloud
–Review- chapter & your notes
5. Your Reading Skills – Prepare
Use/create advance organizers
• Front-matter
– Preface, table of content
• Chapter outlines, section headings,
summaries
• What has your instructor said
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6. Your Reading Skills – Organize
• Gather what you need when reading
• Highlighters, pens, a copy of your reading
assignment, paper or index cards for notetaking, 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
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7. Your Reading Skills – Work
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• Stay focused
• Write and Recite while you read
– Rephrase
– Highlight
– Use visuals
– Look up unfamiliar words
8. The Secret of Memory – Work
• Use proven strategies to memorize new
material
• Rehearsal
• Use multiple senses
• Visualize
• Overlearning
• Mnemonics (acronyms & acostics)
• Method of loci
• Peg method
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10. Mnemonics: Acrostic
• Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge
• My Very Excited Mother Just Served Us
Natchos
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11. The Secret of Memory – Visualization
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12. Peg & Loci Method
• PEG:
• Key words tied to numbers to help you
recall numeric information
• Method of Loci: (Joshua Foer)
• Latin for “places”
• Information is divided into sequences
• Information is partitioned like rooms of a
house
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13. Your Reading Skills – Evaluate
• What does it all mean?
– Identify main themes and apply them to you
personally
– Prioritize the ideas
– Assess the author’s points
– Explain concept to someone else
– Use in-text questions or review materials
– Be honest with yourself
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14. Your Reading Skills – Rethink
• Rethink what you’ve read within 24
hours of initially reading it
• Reread more difficult material, skim
less important
• Think deeply about the material
• Rethinking transfers material from
your short term memory to your long
term memory
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15. Advanced Organizer for Chapter 5
1. The general topics that are covered in the
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chapter are…
2. The most critical topics and concepts in the
chapter are…
3. The most difficult material in the chapter
includes…
4. Word, phrases, and ideas that are unfamiliar to
me are…
5. Ways that the material in this chapter relates to
other material that I’ve previously read in the
text include…
Editor's Notes Statements from pg 67
In groups of 2-3 people work through Chapter 5
-DO NOT read the whole chapter – work with the table of contents/learning outcomes (begin of chapter)/section headings/Conclusion of chapter –Then read the chapter
Hand in one typed copy (12 font) with title page – course name & section all names included,
At end of class you can start to work on this assignment – DUE beginning of next class
