The document discusses strategies for active reading. It defines active reading as being engaged with the material by thinking about it, questioning it, and taking steps to understand, remember, and evaluate what was read. It emphasizes the importance of reducing distractions and choosing an environment without distractions. Specific tips provided include setting reading goals, avoiding phones/TV, eating a healthy snack before reading, and writing down assignments. The document also discusses surveying a text by previewing headings, pictures and other features to understand the overall content and structure before reading.

1. PRESENTED BY
LALINDA STREET
Active Reading

2. Reading
Simulation
Watch the video below and see if
you are able to answer the six
questions that follow accurately.
Reading Simulation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o
YouTube video

3. QUICK TIPS
The Reading Simulation
(ADHD) video
demonstrated that with
a variety of distraction
it is very difficult to be
an active reader. Thus,
it is imperative that we
reduce distractions by
setting goals and
changing our
environment in order to
increase comprehension
and acquiring new
information on the
subject matter being
learned.
How to become an Active reader in
the midst of a distracting world.
1. Choose a environment that eliminates as
many distractions as possible.
2. Be sure that you are consistent with your
study area, we learn best when we are able to
associate learning with a particular space.
3. Avoid phones(texting, etc.), television and
audio
4. Eat a healthy snack before engaging in
learning
5. Write down what reading, assignments and
activities that need to be accomplished.
--adapted from Mindscapes: Critical Reading Skills and Strategies

4. “GOOD READERS’ STRATEGIES”
Active reading is defined as being involved with
material they are reading. Think, question, challenge,
criticize, and take specific steps to understand,
remember and evaluate what they read.

5. Read: Malcolm X Speech
 I want to thank Allah for coming and giving to us our leader and teacher here in America, The Honorable Elijah
Muhammad. I want to thank Brother Benjamin at the outset for doing a wonderful job of opening up our eyes and
giving us a good preliminary basic understanding of the means and the objectives of The Honorable Elijah Muhammad,
and also I am thankful to Allah for bringing so many people out here tonight, especially just before Christmas. You
know, it's next to a miracle when you get this many of our people together so close to Christmas interested in anything
whatsoever that's serious. And actually what this shows is the change that's taking place among the so-called Negroes
not only here in New York but throughout the entire world. Today dark mankind is waking up and is undertaking a new
type of thinking, and it is this new type of thinking that is creating new approaches and new reactions that make it
almost impossible to figure out what the black man is going to do next, and by black man we mean, as we are taught by
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad, we include all those who are non-white. He teaches us that black is the basic color,
that black is the foundation or the basis of all colors. And all of our people who have not yet become white are still black,
or atleast part of the Black Nation,and here at Muhammad's Mosque when you hear us using the term "black" we mean
everbody who's here, regardless of your complexion. If you're here at the Mosque you're black, because the only ticket
you need to get into Muhammad's Mosque is to be black. So if you got in you know you're black. You may not have
known that you were black before you came here. In fact, very few of our people really look upon themselves as being
black. They think of themselves as practically everything else on the color spectrum except black. And no matter how
dark one of our people may be, you rarely hear him call himself black. But now that The Honorable Elijah Muhammad
has been teaching among the so-called Negroes, you find our people of all complexions going around bragging that "I'm
a black man." This shows you that a new teaching is taking place and there is new thinking among the so-called
Negroes. Yet just yesterday you would have to admit that it was very difficult to get our people to refer to themselves as
black. Now all of a sudden our people of all complexions are not apologizing for being black but bragging about being
black. So there's a new thinking all over America among the so-called Negroes. And the one who is actually the author of
this new thinking is The Honorable Elijah Muhammad. It is what he is teaching that is making our people, for the first
time, proud to be black, and what's most important of all, for the first time it makes our people want to know more
about black, want to know why black is good, or what there is about black that is good

6. YOUR THOUGHTS!
What did you notice about Malcolm X Speech? What
was hard? What did you do to make sense of the text
as you read?

7. “GOOD READERS’ PROBLEM SOLVE
"Did anyone notice that they had to re-read any
part?" or "Did anyone think of something else that
they knew about that was kind of related?"

8. LALINDA STREET
PRINCE GEORGE’S COMMUNITY COLLEGE
DVR061
UNDERSTANDING STRUCTURE:
ACTIVE READING

9. -What is the figure
doing?
-What do you notice
about him?
-This statue is called The
Thinker, and it is in
Paris. It is bigger than
life-size and carved of
stone. What do you think
the artist’s message is?
-Why did he choose this
particular method of
sending it?
-Now think about why
you are here? What is
your motivation for
being in college?

10. ACTIVE READING
Like the image of The Thinker effective reading requires
that individuals have a clear understanding of why you
are reading an assigned passage and what your learning
goals are for reading.
Reading is an active thinking process of
understanding an author’s ideas, connecting those
ideas to what you already know and organizing all
the ideas so you can remember and use them.

11. PURPOSE OF READING
There are several possible purposes for reading:

reading to search for specific information

reading for pleasure

reading for general comprehension

reading to learn

reading to integrate information

12. BEFORE DURING AND AFTER READING

13. SURVEYING AND PREVIEWING A READING
The purpose of reading strategies is to recognize how
an author has structured a reading.
Two important reading strategies are:
 Surveying
 Previewing – allows for the reader to skim the reading more
closely and allows for readers to determine important features
of the passage.

14. SURVEYING
a technique that allows for you to quickly scan the
materials to determine what you already know about
the topic. It also allows for you to connect to your
prior knowledge and readies your brain to receive
new information.

15. Surveying
Surveying the
text means
looking at the
table of contents,
at chapter
headings, titles,
boldfaced words,
subheadings at
summaries,
abstracts or
graphics, for an
overview of
content and
purpose.

16. Let’s Practice
Using Surveying
1. Read the title and ask yourself: What is this reading
about?
2. Ask yourself: What do I already know about this topic?
3. Predict what you think the reading will be about.
4. Flip through the reading and read the headings and
captions. Look at the diagrams or pictures.
5. Turn the title and headings into questions to hone in
on content and organization.
6. Scan for words you don’t know and circle them.
7. Repeat step #3. What do you now think the reading
will cover?

17. PREVIEWING
Allows for the reader to skim the reading more closely and allows
for readers to determine important features of the passage.
While you may survey a textbook in its entirety, you preview only
a section of the chapter at a time.
Previewing requires that you read a significant parts of the passage.
Requires that you look at the introduction

18. PREVIEWING A READING
1. Read the title
2. Read the first
paragraph
3. Reading the first
sentence of each of
the middle
paragraphs
4. Reading the entire
concluding paragraph