The document discusses various college study techniques for reading comprehension including highlighting, SQ3R (survey, question, read, recite, review), and annotation. It emphasizes that writing while reading, such as highlighting and annotating, helps with attention, understanding, memory, and elaboration compared to just rereading. The SQ3R technique involves surveying the material, asking questions, reading in chunks, reciting answers to questions, and reviewing notes and material.

1. College Study Techniques
- Highlighting
- SQ3R
- Annotation
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2. Writing as a Learning Tool
 While in college, you will be expected to learn large amounts of
textbook material (and not just in our class).
 Did you know that rereading to learn IS NOT an effective strategy?
 Instead of rereading, it is better to write.
 Along with helping you retain what you have learned, writing is also
good for reading comprehension (comprehension means ability to
understand).

3. The Advantages to Writing While Reading
Writing focuses your attention
 If you write while you read, you will be forced to keep your mind on the topic.
Writing focuses you to think
 Highlighting or writing forces you to decide what is important.

4. The Advantages to Writing While Reading
Writing Tests Your Understanding
 One of the truest measures of understanding is your ability to explain an idea
in your own words.
 When you have understood an idea, you will be able to write about it, but
when an idea is unclear or confusing, you will be at a loss for words.

5. The Advantages to Writing While Reading
Writing helps you remember what you have read.
 Research studies indicate that information is recalled more easily if it is
elaborated on.
To elaborate means to do something with great care and detail.
 Elaboration involves expanding and thinking about the material by drawing
connections and associations, seeing relationships, and applying what you
have learned.
 Writing is a form of elaboration.

6. Writing While Reading
Over the course of this semester, you will be introduced to
several reading strategies that will help you retain the
information you will be learning during your years in
college.
At the end of the semester you will be asked which
reading strategy(ies) you plan to use (or have used) in
your other classes.

7. Highlighting
 The easiest and fastest way to mark important facts and ideas is to
highlight them using a pen or highlighter.
 Many students do not like to mark their textbooks because they
want to sell them at the end of the semester.
 However, highlighting really helps you learn.
It is especially helpful with classes that are difficult for you,
especially those in a content area, such as Psychology,
Anthropology, History.

8. Let’s read an article about Honduras

9. Honduras
Okay STOP Reading!
We are going to now take a PowerPoint Quiz
Write the answers at the bottom of the page.
PLEASE do not ask your neighbor for help!

10. 1. Where is Honduras?
a. in the north-central part of Central America
b. in South America
c. right below Mexico

11. 2. Which bodies of water are part of Honduras’
coast?
a. Atlantic and the Red Sea
b. Caribbean and Pacific
c. Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic

12. 3. During its first millennium, who inhabited
Honduras?
a. Aztecs b. Mayans c. Cherokee
4. How many people died in the “football war”?
a. 5,000 b. 1 million c. 278,283

13. 5. In 1821, who did Honduras declare their
independence from?
a.Mexico
b.Spain
c.Guatemala

14. Highlighting
What do you think the purpose of this quiz was?
To show you the importance of highlighting
properly.

15. Highlighting
You do not want to highlight too much, while at the same
time, you do not want to highlight too little.
The important thing is to highlight properly.

16. Why are we learning about Honduras?
After all, this is not a World History class.
Has anyone purchased Enrique’s Journey?
If so, has anyone started reading it?
If so, where does Enrique come from?
Exactly, Honduras

17. Background Information
While learning about highlighting, you also engaged in
another reading strategy called Pre-reading.
We are now going to learn about a second reading
strategy called SQ3R

18. SQ3R: Survey, Question, Read,
Recite, and Review

19. Survey: Preview the material
Become familiar with the overall content and
organization of the material.
Read the title, subtitle, subheadings, first and last
paragraphs, pictures, charts, and graphics. Note words in
italics and bold.
Take a moment to glance over the reading (just look at
the items above, do not try to read everything).

20. Question: Ask Questions Before You Begin
Reading
What do you want to know?
Turn headings and subheadings into
questions and/or read questions if provided.

21. Read
Read the paragraphs in small chunks.
This may be one or two paragraphs at a
time or the material under each heading.
Answer the questions you created.

22. Recite
Say the answer to each question.
Stop after each section and try to
remember the answer to your
question.

23. Review
Look over the reading selection again
Look over the notes you have written.
Review what you learned and write a
summary in your own words

24. Annotation

25. What is Annotation?
To annotate is to add notes, comments, symbols,
etc. to a reading.
Annotating is a useful tool for improving reading
comprehension and for remembering the
assigned text.
Pass out: Annotation Guide

26. Annotation
Keep it simple.
You are trying to connect with the reading in some
way.
Use the tools that work best for you.
Make the reading personal.
Try to find some way to connect with the material.

27. Let’s Practice
Incorporate all three strategies: highlighting,
annotation, and the SQ3R reading strategy to
read the article “Why You Should Participate in
Class.”

28. For Homework
Highlight/SQ3R/Annotate
Brainology Article