What is reading Comprehension? Why is reading technical material so hard? Reading Comprehension of technical material SURVEY-QUESTION-READ-RECITE-REVIEW(SQ3R) When to use SQ3R technique? Visualizing the read information

1. Comprehension of
Technical material
By: Asim Zahoor

2. Outline
• What is reading Comprehension?
• Why is reading technical material so hard?
• Reading Comprehension of technical material
SURVEY-QUESTION-READ-RECITE-REVIEW(SQ3R)
• When to use SQ3R technique?
• Visualizing the read information

3. What is reading Comprehension?
• Complex undertaking that involves many levels of processing and grows
gradually over years.
• It is a composite ability of a number of different abilities like
• Knowledge of word meaning
• Organization of thoughts of a passage,
• Answering to questions mentioned in the passage,
• Ability to draw inferences, noting the details from the text etc.

4. Why is reading technical material so hard?

5. • Individual variables
• intelligence, motivation, physiological and psychological traits
• Inflexibility
• tendency to read everything the same way regardless of what it is.
• The level of vocabulary and comprehension

6. Reading Comprehension of technical
material
• SURVEY-QUESTION-READ-RECITE-REVIEW(SQ3R)
1. SURVEY
• State your purpose for reading the material.
• Read the title
• Read the introduction and/or summary
• Notice each boldface heading and sub-headings
• Skim over graphs, tables, charts, etc. to see how they support and explain
the text.
• Take notes

7. 2. Question
• Frame questions
3. Read
• Divide chapter into small sections
• Ask questions before each paragraph or section, and then locate the answers in
the text
• Note down essential points and vocabulary
• Think, interpret, and analyze the first time you read, to avoid unnecessary re-
reading.
4. RECITE
• Make separate notes or outlines and answer questions from memory
• Discuss

8. 5. REVIEW
• Take a few minutes to review the information you just learned
• Re-read any section you did not understand
• Re-read headings, subheadings and boldfaced words
• Memorize if you need

10. When to use SQ3R technique?
• Useful with textbooks that provide a lot of information and require you
to learn the material in depth. Textbooks in many disciplines such as
biology, psychology, and sociology fall into this category.
• SQ3R is probably less useful with textbooks that focus on helping you
solve problems, like with math textbooks

11. Visualizing the read information
• Try to visualize information
• Watch how something is done for example DNA extraction by watching
animations or videos
• Draw yourself
• Concentrate on sequence
• Compare and Contrast