Reading Your Texts Efficiently: Increase Comprehension & Save Time
Do you read slowly? Do you have trouble focusing when reading? Is it hard to remember what you read?
This workshop will introduce you to strategies to use before, during and after reading to help you learn how to best focus and how to select important information from a text. It will also show you ways to improve your abilities to retain and analyze what you have read.
This document provides information on effective study skills. It discusses organizing one's time, taking good notes, creating mind maps, teaching others, finding ways to reinforce concepts, breaking up study time, asking questions while studying, and testing oneself. The top three study skills highlighted are time management, note-taking, and developing internal motivation. Effective study techniques include lecturing oneself, making concepts rhyme, and testing one's knowledge with flashcards or practice questions.
This document provides 9 techniques for brainstorming ideas for an essay: 1) Freewriting, 2) Making a cube, 3) Clustering, 4) Listing/bulleting, 5) Venn diagram, 6) Tree diagram, 7) Acting like a journalist, 8) T-diagram, and 9) Spoke diagram. It also outlines 4 rules for effective brainstorming: do not criticize ideas, aim for quantity over quality, build on others' ideas, and allow any idea regardless of how unusual. The goal of brainstorming is to generate as many ideas and questions about the topic as possible before writing the essay.
Dr. Goodreader was developed by Susan Stevens and Rakitia Delk to teach students reading strategies in a systematic way and enable them to self-diagnose problems and choose appropriate strategies, with the goal of moving from textbook instruction to reading workshops; it outlines strategies like metacognition, activating background knowledge, visualizing, inferring, questioning, determining importance, synthesizing, and evaluating.
This document provides guidance on organizing a research paper by outlining the key steps: checking the assignment requirements, reviewing examples of similar work, making an outline to organize ideas and information, drafting the paper and revising it to ensure it stays on topic and is well organized, and seeking help from the library or academic success center as needed throughout the research and writing process.
The document provides tips for improving reading comprehension. It recommends connecting the text to prior knowledge, making predictions, stopping to reflect on what was read, asking and answering questions, visualizing content, using typographical clues, retelling what was read, rereading difficult parts, noticing patterns in text structure, and adjusting the reading rate.
The document outlines top ten study strategies presented by The Learning Curve at Assiniboine Community College. The strategies include previewing texts, active reading, effective note taking, reviewing notes within 24 hours, studying actively through methods like flashcards, creating study groups, managing time, finding an ideal study spot, identifying learning styles, and practicing test taking strategies. Implementing these strategies can help students improve retention, understanding, and performance.
This document provides tips and strategies for effective note taking, studying, and time management. It discusses taking notes during class lectures using the Cornell note taking method, which uses two columns - a key terms column and a details column. It also discusses taking notes from reading by including key points, source details, highlighting, and abbreviations. Other study skills covered include mind mapping, brainstorming, research techniques using keywords and databases, and managing study time using a calendar and color coding subjects. Links to additional resources on these topics are also provided.
The document provides tips for studying effectively. It recommends getting to know yourself as a learner, your lecturers, and your program of study. Developing an organized strategy is key, including organizing materials, establishing a regular study schedule, forming a success council, and teaching others. Mastering these techniques can help ensure academic success.
This document provides information on effective study skills. It discusses organizing one's time, taking good notes, creating mind maps, teaching others, finding ways to reinforce concepts, breaking up study time, asking questions while studying, and testing oneself. The top three study skills highlighted are time management, note-taking, and developing internal motivation. Effective study techniques include lecturing oneself, making concepts rhyme, and testing one's knowledge with flashcards or practice questions.
This document provides 9 techniques for brainstorming ideas for an essay: 1) Freewriting, 2) Making a cube, 3) Clustering, 4) Listing/bulleting, 5) Venn diagram, 6) Tree diagram, 7) Acting like a journalist, 8) T-diagram, and 9) Spoke diagram. It also outlines 4 rules for effective brainstorming: do not criticize ideas, aim for quantity over quality, build on others' ideas, and allow any idea regardless of how unusual. The goal of brainstorming is to generate as many ideas and questions about the topic as possible before writing the essay.
Dr. Goodreader was developed by Susan Stevens and Rakitia Delk to teach students reading strategies in a systematic way and enable them to self-diagnose problems and choose appropriate strategies, with the goal of moving from textbook instruction to reading workshops; it outlines strategies like metacognition, activating background knowledge, visualizing, inferring, questioning, determining importance, synthesizing, and evaluating.
This document provides guidance on organizing a research paper by outlining the key steps: checking the assignment requirements, reviewing examples of similar work, making an outline to organize ideas and information, drafting the paper and revising it to ensure it stays on topic and is well organized, and seeking help from the library or academic success center as needed throughout the research and writing process.
The document provides tips for improving reading comprehension. It recommends connecting the text to prior knowledge, making predictions, stopping to reflect on what was read, asking and answering questions, visualizing content, using typographical clues, retelling what was read, rereading difficult parts, noticing patterns in text structure, and adjusting the reading rate.
The document outlines top ten study strategies presented by The Learning Curve at Assiniboine Community College. The strategies include previewing texts, active reading, effective note taking, reviewing notes within 24 hours, studying actively through methods like flashcards, creating study groups, managing time, finding an ideal study spot, identifying learning styles, and practicing test taking strategies. Implementing these strategies can help students improve retention, understanding, and performance.
This document provides tips and strategies for effective note taking, studying, and time management. It discusses taking notes during class lectures using the Cornell note taking method, which uses two columns - a key terms column and a details column. It also discusses taking notes from reading by including key points, source details, highlighting, and abbreviations. Other study skills covered include mind mapping, brainstorming, research techniques using keywords and databases, and managing study time using a calendar and color coding subjects. Links to additional resources on these topics are also provided.
The document provides tips for studying effectively. It recommends getting to know yourself as a learner, your lecturers, and your program of study. Developing an organized strategy is key, including organizing materials, establishing a regular study schedule, forming a success council, and teaching others. Mastering these techniques can help ensure academic success.
This document provides tips and strategies for effective study skills. It discusses how to improve motivation, manage time more effectively, overcome procrastination, review material, and improve studying. Some key tips include developing a schedule, studying one subject at a time for an hour, avoiding distractions like technology, using the SQ4R active reading method of surveying, questioning, reading, reciting and reviewing material, and studying in a distraction-free environment. The document emphasizes setting goals, planning study sessions, and reviewing content frequently as important strategies for academic success.
The document outlines top study strategies presented by The Learning Curve at Assiniboine Community College. It discusses reflecting on current study approaches and identifying areas for improvement. Ten effective study strategies are reviewed: previewing texts, active reading, reviewing notes within 24 hours, studying actively through flashcards and concept maps, creating study groups, managing time, finding an ideal study spot, and test-taking tips. The goal is to help students improve retention, understanding, and application of course material.
This document provides tips and advice for students on developing effective study skills, independent learning habits, managing their time, prioritizing tasks, preparing for exams, and dealing with exam stress. Some key points covered include creating a study timetable, focusing study sessions on understanding material rather than just reading, practicing exam techniques like reading instructions carefully, and maintaining a healthy lifestyle during revision periods.
Studying is necessary to succeed in college. The document outlines the basic rules for effective studying: study at the right time (40 hours per week), place (quiet, distraction-free), and under the right conditions (organized, prepared). Different classes require modifying strategies, such as using concept cards for sciences, annotating texts for humanities, and practicing problems for math. Following basic tips like taking notes and quizzing yourself can help students receive the grades they want through adequate preparation and study.
Managing Yourself as a Successful Student
Do you wonder what the best approach to your learning is?
Do you want to learn how to become more organized with your studies and your time?
This workshop will show you how to effectively organize yourself and your time. You will also learn how to maximize your study strategies and tailor them to your individual learning needs.
www.necacademicsupport.pbworks.com
Study tips for college students include creating mnemonics to help memorize concepts, taking notes in your own words and rewriting them until you understand the material, making flashcards for definitions and vocabulary, quizzing yourself on mock exams to test your knowledge, taking short breaks to retain information, and pacing yourself by not getting too far ahead in your studies or falling behind on work.
This document provides guidance for developing a philosophy of education paper. It begins by advising the reader to take tests on educational philosophies, read about different philosophies, and identify their own philosophical tendencies. It then describes key aspects of teacher-centered and student-centered philosophies. The document offers tips for designing a lesson, behavior management system, and vision for an ideal school. It concludes by offering formatting and writing tips for crafting a high-quality paper in APA style.
This document provides tips and advice for students to be successful learners and exam takers. It emphasizes the importance of organization, time management, active studying techniques like note-taking and self-testing, and maintaining a study schedule. On exam day, it recommends arriving early, using reading time effectively, answering easier questions first, and checking over work before leaving. The overall message is that preparation, discipline, and confidence are key to achieving academic goals.
This document is a teacher page for a WebQuest on writing memoirs. It introduces the WebQuest which asks students to read a published memoir, analyze writing strategies, research aspects of memoir writing, and write their own memoir. The teacher page provides details on learners, standards addressed, resources for teachers and students, and a suggested process and timeline for students to complete the project.
This document provides tips and strategies for students to develop effective study skills, become independent learners, manage their time, and prepare for and take exams. Some key points covered include developing a study timetable, prioritizing tasks, studying in sessions with breaks, using exam preparation techniques like making flashcards and practicing past papers, and managing stress on exam day by eating well and pacing yourself. The overall message is that being organized, focusing your time on important tasks, and using active study strategies are hallmarks of successful students.
How to improve study skills in middle schoolLuciaApple123
The document discusses study skills necessary for middle school students to succeed. It notes common myths students believe, such as that luck or teacher favoritism determine grades, rather than effort. It recommends getting organized, using a planner, estimating assignment times, and breaking projects into steps. When studying, students should practice active learning techniques like highlighting and not just reread. They should find their productive study times, learn memorization techniques, and manage stress. Developing effective methods like flashcards, quizzing oneself, and summarizing are also suggested. The document stresses the importance of effective time management and targeting areas needing more study.
The document provides guidance on effective study skills for college students. It recommends using the SQ3R method of survey, question, read, recite and review when studying from textbooks. Additional tips include making study guides, using flashcards, creating acronyms and acrostics to remember material, and forming study groups. Effective time management is also important, such as setting aside specific times each day to review notes in small increments.
This document outlines various strategies that successful readers use when comprehension breaks down while reading. It discusses seven strategies good readers employ such as using prior knowledge, asking questions, making inferences, and determining importance. It also lists signs that comprehension is failing such as not forming mental images or mind wandering. Specific "fix-it" strategies are then presented, including connecting to personal experiences, predicting, visualizing, asking clarifying questions, writing about what is read, noticing text structure patterns, adjusting reading rate, rereading, and figuring out unknown words. The document provides instructional suggestions for sharing struggles and having students record fix-up plans. It emphasizes that not all strategies work in every situation.
The document discusses good study habits such as organizing, identifying learning styles, scheduling time, managing time effectively, and using different memorization techniques. It provides tips for creating an effective study environment and schedule. Various learning styles and time management models are presented. Different memorization techniques are explained such as acronyms, acrostics, keywords, rhyming, association, imagery, loci method, and flashcards. Students are encouraged to reflect on their study habits and identify areas for improvement.
CA Exams - Art of Study - CA Pritam MahurePritam Mahure
The document provides guidance on planning and preparing for CA exams. It recommends making a detailed plan, doing self-analysis to identify strengths and weaknesses, and setting a realistic target of passing or scoring well. It discusses factors to consider like choosing one or both groups to study, attending classes or self-study, and selecting an optional subject. It emphasizes the importance of practice, regular revisions, choosing study locations and times effectively, maintaining a healthy lifestyle, and overcoming obstacles with a positive mindset to achieve success.
The document provides tips and strategies for studying effectively and preparing for exams. It emphasizes creating a study plan to review materials in short sessions daily rather than cramming. On exams, it recommends pacing yourself, reading questions carefully, and using strategies like process of elimination, underlining key details, and checking your work. The document stresses managing anxiety by being prepared, visualizing positively, and taking deep breaths. It concludes by wishing students good luck on their exams.
This document provides study tips and lessons learned from 11 years as a university student. It recommends previewing assigned readings before class to identify what's important, taking concise notes, reviewing notes after class within 12 hours, and studying in both distributed and massed practice ways. It also emphasizes time management, sitting at the front of the class, using testing strategies like outlining essay answers, and reviewing old material for cumulative exams. The overall goal is to read and study efficiently in order to better retain information.
The document presents 10 puzzles with clues and solutions about unusual events that require creative explanations. The puzzles include a man dying from a lion attack during a photo, a mail courier visiting foreign embassies and thus foreign soil, and a woman giving birth and dying in a locked car. The solutions provide logical explanations for events that seem impossible or unexplained at first glance.
In order to foster the academic skills development of students at all levels of academic ability and to increase student learning and retention, Northeast Center faculty and academic support collaborated to design innovative approaches which integrate in-person academic support into credit-bearing studies. As a result, we have developed several embedded academic support models using learning and peer coaches to assist students in their acquisition and enhancement of writing skills, academic research strategies and content area knowledge. This presentation will explore the ways in which we have embedded academic support into two different study groups, highlighting the benefits for both faculty and students, and examine lessons learned. Our intention with the presentation is to bring the audience into this conversation, sharing the models we use for our peer coach training and embedded academic support approaches. Participants will be asked to reflect on their own centers and take away ideas for how they might adapt these models to start/enhance their own embedded academic support efforts.
This document provides tips and strategies for effective study skills. It discusses how to improve motivation, manage time more effectively, overcome procrastination, review material, and improve studying. Some key tips include developing a schedule, studying one subject at a time for an hour, avoiding distractions like technology, using the SQ4R active reading method of surveying, questioning, reading, reciting and reviewing material, and studying in a distraction-free environment. The document emphasizes setting goals, planning study sessions, and reviewing content frequently as important strategies for academic success.
The document outlines top study strategies presented by The Learning Curve at Assiniboine Community College. It discusses reflecting on current study approaches and identifying areas for improvement. Ten effective study strategies are reviewed: previewing texts, active reading, reviewing notes within 24 hours, studying actively through flashcards and concept maps, creating study groups, managing time, finding an ideal study spot, and test-taking tips. The goal is to help students improve retention, understanding, and application of course material.
This document provides tips and advice for students on developing effective study skills, independent learning habits, managing their time, prioritizing tasks, preparing for exams, and dealing with exam stress. Some key points covered include creating a study timetable, focusing study sessions on understanding material rather than just reading, practicing exam techniques like reading instructions carefully, and maintaining a healthy lifestyle during revision periods.
Studying is necessary to succeed in college. The document outlines the basic rules for effective studying: study at the right time (40 hours per week), place (quiet, distraction-free), and under the right conditions (organized, prepared). Different classes require modifying strategies, such as using concept cards for sciences, annotating texts for humanities, and practicing problems for math. Following basic tips like taking notes and quizzing yourself can help students receive the grades they want through adequate preparation and study.
Managing Yourself as a Successful Student
Do you wonder what the best approach to your learning is?
Do you want to learn how to become more organized with your studies and your time?
This workshop will show you how to effectively organize yourself and your time. You will also learn how to maximize your study strategies and tailor them to your individual learning needs.
www.necacademicsupport.pbworks.com
Study tips for college students include creating mnemonics to help memorize concepts, taking notes in your own words and rewriting them until you understand the material, making flashcards for definitions and vocabulary, quizzing yourself on mock exams to test your knowledge, taking short breaks to retain information, and pacing yourself by not getting too far ahead in your studies or falling behind on work.
This document provides guidance for developing a philosophy of education paper. It begins by advising the reader to take tests on educational philosophies, read about different philosophies, and identify their own philosophical tendencies. It then describes key aspects of teacher-centered and student-centered philosophies. The document offers tips for designing a lesson, behavior management system, and vision for an ideal school. It concludes by offering formatting and writing tips for crafting a high-quality paper in APA style.
This document provides tips and advice for students to be successful learners and exam takers. It emphasizes the importance of organization, time management, active studying techniques like note-taking and self-testing, and maintaining a study schedule. On exam day, it recommends arriving early, using reading time effectively, answering easier questions first, and checking over work before leaving. The overall message is that preparation, discipline, and confidence are key to achieving academic goals.
This document is a teacher page for a WebQuest on writing memoirs. It introduces the WebQuest which asks students to read a published memoir, analyze writing strategies, research aspects of memoir writing, and write their own memoir. The teacher page provides details on learners, standards addressed, resources for teachers and students, and a suggested process and timeline for students to complete the project.
This document provides tips and strategies for students to develop effective study skills, become independent learners, manage their time, and prepare for and take exams. Some key points covered include developing a study timetable, prioritizing tasks, studying in sessions with breaks, using exam preparation techniques like making flashcards and practicing past papers, and managing stress on exam day by eating well and pacing yourself. The overall message is that being organized, focusing your time on important tasks, and using active study strategies are hallmarks of successful students.
How to improve study skills in middle schoolLuciaApple123
The document discusses study skills necessary for middle school students to succeed. It notes common myths students believe, such as that luck or teacher favoritism determine grades, rather than effort. It recommends getting organized, using a planner, estimating assignment times, and breaking projects into steps. When studying, students should practice active learning techniques like highlighting and not just reread. They should find their productive study times, learn memorization techniques, and manage stress. Developing effective methods like flashcards, quizzing oneself, and summarizing are also suggested. The document stresses the importance of effective time management and targeting areas needing more study.
The document provides guidance on effective study skills for college students. It recommends using the SQ3R method of survey, question, read, recite and review when studying from textbooks. Additional tips include making study guides, using flashcards, creating acronyms and acrostics to remember material, and forming study groups. Effective time management is also important, such as setting aside specific times each day to review notes in small increments.
This document outlines various strategies that successful readers use when comprehension breaks down while reading. It discusses seven strategies good readers employ such as using prior knowledge, asking questions, making inferences, and determining importance. It also lists signs that comprehension is failing such as not forming mental images or mind wandering. Specific "fix-it" strategies are then presented, including connecting to personal experiences, predicting, visualizing, asking clarifying questions, writing about what is read, noticing text structure patterns, adjusting reading rate, rereading, and figuring out unknown words. The document provides instructional suggestions for sharing struggles and having students record fix-up plans. It emphasizes that not all strategies work in every situation.
The document discusses good study habits such as organizing, identifying learning styles, scheduling time, managing time effectively, and using different memorization techniques. It provides tips for creating an effective study environment and schedule. Various learning styles and time management models are presented. Different memorization techniques are explained such as acronyms, acrostics, keywords, rhyming, association, imagery, loci method, and flashcards. Students are encouraged to reflect on their study habits and identify areas for improvement.
CA Exams - Art of Study - CA Pritam MahurePritam Mahure
The document provides guidance on planning and preparing for CA exams. It recommends making a detailed plan, doing self-analysis to identify strengths and weaknesses, and setting a realistic target of passing or scoring well. It discusses factors to consider like choosing one or both groups to study, attending classes or self-study, and selecting an optional subject. It emphasizes the importance of practice, regular revisions, choosing study locations and times effectively, maintaining a healthy lifestyle, and overcoming obstacles with a positive mindset to achieve success.
The document provides tips and strategies for studying effectively and preparing for exams. It emphasizes creating a study plan to review materials in short sessions daily rather than cramming. On exams, it recommends pacing yourself, reading questions carefully, and using strategies like process of elimination, underlining key details, and checking your work. The document stresses managing anxiety by being prepared, visualizing positively, and taking deep breaths. It concludes by wishing students good luck on their exams.
This document provides study tips and lessons learned from 11 years as a university student. It recommends previewing assigned readings before class to identify what's important, taking concise notes, reviewing notes after class within 12 hours, and studying in both distributed and massed practice ways. It also emphasizes time management, sitting at the front of the class, using testing strategies like outlining essay answers, and reviewing old material for cumulative exams. The overall goal is to read and study efficiently in order to better retain information.
The document presents 10 puzzles with clues and solutions about unusual events that require creative explanations. The puzzles include a man dying from a lion attack during a photo, a mail courier visiting foreign embassies and thus foreign soil, and a woman giving birth and dying in a locked car. The solutions provide logical explanations for events that seem impossible or unexplained at first glance.
In order to foster the academic skills development of students at all levels of academic ability and to increase student learning and retention, Northeast Center faculty and academic support collaborated to design innovative approaches which integrate in-person academic support into credit-bearing studies. As a result, we have developed several embedded academic support models using learning and peer coaches to assist students in their acquisition and enhancement of writing skills, academic research strategies and content area knowledge. This presentation will explore the ways in which we have embedded academic support into two different study groups, highlighting the benefits for both faculty and students, and examine lessons learned. Our intention with the presentation is to bring the audience into this conversation, sharing the models we use for our peer coach training and embedded academic support approaches. Participants will be asked to reflect on their own centers and take away ideas for how they might adapt these models to start/enhance their own embedded academic support efforts.
This document provides information and strategies for dealing with test anxiety. It defines test anxiety as a feeling of fear and frustration caused by feeling threatened during an exam. Test anxiety can have internal causes like fear of embarrassment or failure, or external causes like poor study habits or time management. The document recommends three stages for coping with test anxiety: before the test through preparation and positive thinking; during the test using relaxation techniques; and after the test focusing on the future and getting help if needed. Managing test anxiety involves expecting it, preparing well, using breathing exercises, and knowing anxiety can be controlled.
Strategies To Help Minority Students Achieve Academic SuccessDrLourdes
Dr. Lourdes created this seminar to deal with some of the challenges that African- American and Hispanic students face? Minority students, and Hispanic and African American as particular groups often lag behind in academic achievement. Sponsored by www.drlourdes.net. Permission given to use by emailing lourdesdr@bellsouth.net
This document is a summary of a book on vocabulary instruction for academic success. It provides an overview of the book's contents, including its focus on the importance of vocabulary knowledge, strategies for developing oral language skills and promoting wide reading, creating a word-conscious classroom environment, teaching individual words, and teaching word-learning strategies. The foreword discusses how the book addresses key issues around vocabulary development and offers practical teaching suggestions and examples.
This document provides guidance on writing an effective introductory paragraph. It recommends keeping the introductory paragraph short, like a greeting. The paragraph should introduce the topic without delving into details. An introductory paragraph must be at least 50 words, introduce the topic, grab the reader's attention with a hook, and include a clear thesis statement outlining the main points. The document provides examples of general statement, question, and quotation introductions and emphasizes being concise and fulfilling the three requirements of an introductory paragraph.
The document discusses different types of academic writing such as essays, research papers, research articles, dissertations, theses, technical reports, and research projects. It provides details on the typical length and purpose of each type. The document also outlines the basic structure for academic writing, including sections like the introduction, body, and conclusion. It describes the formal tone, objective style, and use of references expected in academic writing.
The man is lying dead in a locked room with a puddle of blood and water on the floor. He stabbed himself with an icicle, which then melted, leaving the blood and water.
A man is lying dead face down in the desert, wearing a backpack. He jumped from an airplane but his parachute failed to open.
A man is found dead in a field, having fallen from the sky. He jumped from a plane and his parachute failed, causing him to crash to the ground.
Visual symbols include drawings, sketches, cartoons, diagrams, charts, graphs, maps, and posters. The document provides guidelines for using different visual symbols effectively, including ensuring they are relevant, attractive, and large enough to see. It also discusses various types of visual symbols in detail, such as cartoons, posters, drawings, diagrams, charts, graphs, and maps, outlining their purposes and best practices for design and use.
Lateral thinking is a book written by edward de bono, this is one of the best book about thinking outside, creativity,innovation, and the term PO.
I am giving you review of this book.
The document contains a collection of lateral thinking puzzles and riddles. It begins with an introduction to lateral thinking and how it can help solve problems from a different perspective. The rest of the document consists of various puzzles and riddles presented as questions without answers. Readers are challenged to think creatively to arrive at the solutions. Examples include puzzles about eggs in a basket, trucks passing under tunnels, police not stopping a vehicle, and arranging glasses of drink.
LG Electronics is a South Korean electronics company founded in 1958. It has a wide range of products including mobile phones, TVs, appliances, and air conditioners. LG has manufacturing facilities in India and a large distribution network in over 110 countries. It focuses on innovation, localization of products for Indian consumers, and competitive pricing to maintain its leading position in key product categories in India such as refrigerators, TVs, and air conditioners.
This document discusses visual puzzles and games that aim to exercise thinking. It describes ambigrams, which are words that can be read the same upside down or rotated. The document also covers designing puzzles to teach letter parts or typography concepts. Games are proposed that turn images like photos into interactive puzzles by having players find details. The goals are to design casual games for mental fitness as part of a healthy lifestyle using trends like social media and player-generated content.
This document provides study tips and strategies for students preparing for exams. It discusses making a study schedule and allocating time effectively. It recommends the SQ3R method of survey, question, read, recite, review. Specific reading and note-taking techniques are outlined, such as highlighting key details, outlining textbooks, and keeping organized notes. Tips are provided for different types of exams, including objective, multiple choice, and essay exams. The overall aim is to help students improve their study skills and test-taking abilities.
This document discusses effective study skills. It begins by noting that effective study skills involve more than just understanding course material. It then outlines some general study techniques, including creating a schedule, finding an appropriate place and time to study, developing strong thinking skills like asking questions while reading, taking detailed notes, and extracting important details from readings. The document provides tips for each of these strategies and emphasizes the importance of being willing to improve one's study habits in order to succeed academically.
This orientation presentation provides information about academic support services available at the Northeast Center of Empire State College. It discusses the mission of the academic support office, the pieces of academic success including rationale, essay writing and academic research. It outlines the services and resources available to students including learning coaches, online tutoring, and academic support websites. Time management strategies and an understanding of learning styles are also covered to help students maximize their success.
The document provides tips for students on successfully continuing their education. It discusses how students must learn to juggle coursework, finances, and family responsibilities. It emphasizes setting priorities and keeping goals in sight to handle the challenges. The document then lists specific tips on taking control of one's life, developing self-confidence, avoiding procrastination, using effective study methods like SQ3R, and seeking help when needed.
This document provides tips for effective note taking and reading comprehension. It discusses the importance of taking notes that can be understood later, reviewing notes, and taking notes while reading. It explains that reading to learn requires a closer reading compared to reading for enjoyment. Tips are provided such as previewing assignments, skimming materials to get the gist, using close reading for difficult texts, and using strategies like underlining or sticky notes. The document stresses the importance of understanding why you are reading an assignment and tailoring your reading approach based on the material, language difficulty, and your interest level and existing knowledge of the topic.
This document provides tips for completing a thesis from Dr. Ian Willis and EdD graduates. It discusses establishing support systems, developing a strong relationship with supervisors, creating a detailed completion plan, and establishing a regular writing routine. Some key tips include setting small, achievable writing goals like writing two paragraphs per day, addressing signs of lack of progress or procrastination, ensuring terms are clearly defined, and maintaining a balance between study and other priorities to support completion.
This document provides information and strategies for improving reading rate and comprehension. It discusses how to use the SQ4R (Survey, Question, Read, Recite, Write, Review) method for active reading. It also outlines essential skills for speed reading, such as increasing one's eye span to take in more words at once, reducing subvocalization, and adjusting reading rate based on material. The document recommends practicing these techniques to improve reading efficiency.
Reading is the process of deriving meaning from written text. There are several reading skills and factors that impact reading comprehension, including vocabulary knowledge, prior knowledge, and text-based factors like genre. Efficient readers read ideas and multi-word phrases, while slow readers read words one at a time. Speed reading techniques include using a wider visual span to see more words at once and minimizing subvocalization. Software can help improve reading skills and speed by controlling reading pace without allowing regression.
This document provides tips for effective studying and test taking. It discusses developing a schedule, using effective study strategies like the SQ3R method, taking good notes from lectures and textbooks, managing stress around exams, and employing test-taking strategies. Some key points covered include creating and revising a schedule to allocate time for studying, using strategies like questioning and reciting material to aid retention, and focusing on easy questions first during exams to maximize completion. The document aims to help students improve their study skills and performance on tests and exams.
This document provides information and strategies for students to effectively manage themselves and maximize their learning. It discusses organizing one's time, workload, and course materials using calendars, to-do lists, and electronic and physical folders. It also discusses prioritizing tasks using urgency and importance matrices and setting goals. Additional tips include recognizing procrastination tendencies and minimizing distractions. The document also discusses learning styles like visual, auditory, reading/writing, and kinesthetic and matching study strategies to one's preferences.
The document provides instructions for an icebreaker activity involving age guessing. Students are split into groups and each group is given 10 pictures of individuals. They must guess the age of each person and record their guesses. The actual ages will then be revealed so groups can calculate their error for each guess. The group with the lowest total error will win. Statistical concepts like bias, variance, and averages are introduced through this activity.
The document provides information on strategies and approaches to enhance student learning. It discusses successful test taking strategies for objective and essay tests. It also discusses how teachers can help students manage resources to prepare for tests. The document then describes various study skills and strategies like understanding learning styles, time management, organizing assignments, effective note taking, reviewing material, and assessing progress. Specific tips are provided for visual and linguistic learners. The conclusion emphasizes the importance of developing good study habits through daily review rather than last minute cramming.
This document provides guidance on developing effective academic reading skills. It introduces the QUASAR method for improving reading efficiency, interactivity, and critical analysis. The method involves questioning texts, actively engaging with them, using reading strategies and systems, analyzing information, and reflecting on what is read. It includes self-assessments to evaluate a reader's current approach and tips for increasing speed, navigating texts efficiently, and developing a deeper critical understanding of what is read. The overall goal is to become an active, efficient, and critical reader who thoughtfully engages with information.
The document provides 10 tips for success as an online student. It emphasizes that online learning requires as much time commitment as traditional courses. It stresses the importance of carefully reviewing course expectations and deadlines, creating a regular study schedule to avoid procrastination, having the necessary software and tools, actively participating in discussions, finding a dedicated study space, building a support system, using available resources for help, engaging critically in discussions, and taking responsibility for one's own learning. Planning and self-discipline are keys to thriving in the online learning environment.
This document discusses various traditional and alternative reading techniques that can be used in teaching English as a foreign language. It begins by outlining pre-reading activities like activating background knowledge and establishing a purpose for reading. It then describes different types of reading like scanning, skimming, intensive reading, and extensive reading. The document also provides examples of different reading activities and post-reading activities that can be used to improve students' reading comprehension.
This document provides information and strategies for tutoring students with learning disabilities. It discusses common issues students may have with math and reading comprehension due to disabilities like dyslexia or ADHD. It suggests strategies tutors can use to help students comprehend material, such as using text coding, reading aloud, and asking questions to encourage critical thinking. Bloom's Taxonomy is also introduced as a framework to classify different levels of thinking.
Basic reading skills include the ability to identify and manipulate individual sounds in language; to identify printed letters and their associated sounds; to decode written language. Phonics is a set of rules that specify the relationship between letters in the spelling of words and the sounds of spoken language
This document provides advice and tips for students continuing their education. It discusses [1] learning to juggle multiple responsibilities like coursework, finances, and family. It emphasizes [2] setting priorities and keeping goals in sight to successfully handle challenges. Finally, it provides [3] specific strategies for time management, procrastination, note-taking, listening skills, and overcoming challenges as a non-native English speaker.
This document provides tips for improving study skills. It recommends using the SQ3R technique for textbook reading, which involves surveying, questioning, reading, reciting and reviewing. It also suggests developing a study schedule, studying one subject at a time for an hour, avoiding distractions, taking notes during lectures by focusing on key information, and reviewing notes frequently. The main message is that regular studying is necessary for academic success.
This document provides guidance on lesson planning for English language teachers. It discusses what a lesson plan is, the importance of planning, and key components to include in a lesson plan such as aims, stages, procedures and learning objectives. The stages covered are warmer, contextualization, vocabulary presentation, language input, controlled practice and freer practice. Examples are provided for each stage. Overall, the document emphasizes that planning helps teachers be organized, confident and ensure a balanced lesson that meets students' needs.
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Planning & Writing Your Rationale Essay
Rationale Essay? Are you unsure of how to begin and what to include?
Designing your own degree plan is difficult; writing about that plan is even harder. Thinking about your degree plan as your resume & the rationale essay as your cover letter is the approach we take in this workshop that will introduce you to the steps & strategies necessary to complete the most unique piece of writing that you will do at ESC .
In order to foster the academic skills development of students at all levels of academic ability and to increase student learning and retention, Northeast Center faculty and academic support collaborated to design innovative approaches which integrate in-person academic support into credit-bearing studies. As a result, we have developed several embedded academic support models using learning and peer coaches to assist students in their acquisition and enhancement of writing skills, academic research strategies and content area knowledge. This presentation will explore the ways in which we have embedded academic support into two different study groups (writing and history) – highlighting the benefits for both faculty and students – and examine lessons learned. Our intention with the presentation is to bring the audience into this conversation, sharing the models we use for our peer coach training and embedded academic support approaches. Participants will be asked to reflect on experiences in their own centers and take away ideas for how they might adapt these models to enhance their own embedded academic support efforts.
This document provides writing style guidelines covering topics such as:
- Using active rather than passive voice
- Targeting a 10th grade or higher reading level
- Italicizing book titles and proper punctuation of ellipses
- Using semicolons correctly
- Maintaining subject-verb and tense agreement
- Avoiding second person pronouns
- Proper use of paragraphs, commas, and emphasis words
- Clearly explaining your thesis and supporting it with evidence
- Proofreading for grammar, spelling, and clarity
Provides access to the virtual assistant, Claude, who can
help answer questions.
Help: Provides access to help resources like the Moodlerooms
Learning Center.
Log Out: Allows you to log out of the system.
NAVIGATION BLOCK
The Course Content block displays the content of the course in an
outline format. This content is organized into Books and Chapters.
Books are the major sections or modules of the course. Chapters are
subsections within each Book.
To access course content, simply click on the name of the Book or
Chapter. This will open that content area in the main part of the
page.
COURSE CONTENT BLOCK
Are you unsure what to expect in your first term?
Do you need to brush-up on organization, time management, and goal setting?
Do you need help keeping the momentum going throughout the term?
Completing orientation is only the first of many pieces to your success at SUNY Empire State College’s Northeast
Center (NEC). Now that you have met your mentor and learned about the many resources available to you, you are
ready to put together the other pieces that will help you have a successful first term.
At three important stages during the
term, we will offer workshops and
interactive sessions conducted by staff
and current students to provide you with
additional resources and effective
strategies to help you piece together a
successful academic experience. We
highly recommend this series for new
students, but all students are welcome
to participate each term.
Before You Begin HIGHLY recommended for new students
Being a Successful Learner
Communicating Effectively with your Mentor and Instructors
Setting Term Long Goals
Student Panel : The Balancing Act & Other Success Tips
This document provides an overview of the academic research process and how to cite sources. It discusses what academic research entails, the basic research process steps of organizing, developing topics, evaluating sources, organizing information, and composing drafts. Significant attention is given to evaluating and citing sources using styles like MLA and APA. Links are provided to additional resources for conducting searches, understanding citation styles, and getting research help.
The document provides an overview of the academic support services available to students, staff, and faculty at Northeast Center. It summarizes the various programs offered including peer coaching, learning coaching, workshops, and courses like Academic Eye. It describes the roles of peer coaches and learning coaches in assisting students and highlights some of the online resources and tutorials available on the academic support website. The document seeks input on workshop scheduling and the potential of assigning peer coaches to study groups.
The document discusses various strategies for helping students manage their learning including using learning contracts to map out key concepts, thinking skills, benefits and due dates; techniques for self-management including organizing one's workload, prioritizing tasks, and managing time; and examples of how to structure a weekly schedule across multiple courses to balance academics, extracurricular activities and personal life.
Rationale Essay? Are you unsure of how to begin? Of what to include?
Designing your own degree plan is difficult; writing about that plan is even harder. Thinking about your degree plan as your resume & the rationale essay as your cover letter is the approach we take in this workshop that will introduce you to the steps & strategies necessary to complete the most unique piece of writing that you will do at ESC .
The document describes the creation of a peer coaching program at SUNY Empire State College's Northeast Center Office of Academic Support. It provides an overview of the program, including that peer coaches are trained students who provide academic support to other students. The document outlines how the program was intentionally designed around principles like professional standards, tailored training, and ongoing evaluation and professional development. It also provides details on the implementation of the program, reporting that it has trained over 13 peer coaches since 2011 who have helped over 25 students through 47 appointments. Student feedback indicates the peer coaching is helpful, and the program seems to have had a positive impact on student grades.
Planning & Writing Your Rationale Essay
Rationale Essay? Are you unsure of how to begin? Of what to include?
Designing your own degree plan is difficult; writing about that plan is even harder. Thinking about your degree plan as your resume & the rationale essay as your cover letter is the approach we take in this workshop that will introduce you to the steps & strategies necessary to complete the most unique piece of writing that you will do at ESC .
Write Effectively & Overcome Writer’s Block
Do you have a hard time deciding what to write about? Do you have trouble developing a thesis?
Have you gotten feedback on your papers asking you to more clearly develop your ideas?
This workshop will introduce you to the principles of effective writing. You will also learn some strategies for how to critically analyze information in
order to more effectively write your essays & get through writer’s block.
The document discusses what critical thinking is, including that it involves understanding, analyzing, and evaluating information to make informed judgments, and lists characteristics of strong critical thinkers such as being honest about limitations and seeking balanced views. It also outlines Bloom's Taxonomy of critical thinking skills and provides examples of strategies like SQ3R and PTR2 that can be used to critically analyze different types of texts.
This document provides guidance for completing assignments for a Western Civilization course. It outlines the steps to understand and break down assignments, including understanding what is being asked, identifying key concepts, and determining how the assignment will be evaluated. It also provides an example assignment, detailing specific requirements for three papers, including formatting guidelines, submission process, feedback options, due dates, and penalties for late submissions.
Here are some strategies for how to evaluate:
- Identify premises and conclusions
- Examine evidence and support
- Consider alternative viewpoints
- Check for bias or assumptions
- Evaluate logic and reasoning
- Assess significance and implications
- Make a judgment based on criteria
The key is to thoughtfully analyze the argument and make an informed evaluation, not just an opinion. Consider multiple perspectives.
The document provides an overview of the academic support services available to students, staff, and faculty at Northeast Center. It summarizes the roles of learning coaches and peer coaches who provide individual appointments, workshops, and courses to help students improve their study skills and academic performance. Peer coaches are trained students who assist with content tutoring, while learning coaches are graduates who conduct workshops and courses, train peer coaches, and provide direct academic support. The document also lists resources on the academic support wiki website, YouTube channel, and Smarthinking online tutoring service. It concludes by soliciting input on future workshop schedules and uses of peer coaches.
Academic Research Strategies
How do I effectively & efficiently do academic research & navigate the college's online library?
This workshop will introduce you to the principles of academic research & show you how to best use the ESC Library resources to find sources & cite
them in your academic papers.
From Research to Paper: How to Write a Research Paper
Do you feel overwhelmed when you try to pick the right resources to include in your research paper?
Do you know how to properly cite your research sources?
This workshop shows students how to effective use the research they have completed & put those resources together into a properly cited & well
developed research paper.
The second in our Pieces of Success Workshop Series - "Starting the Term Off Right". This workshop covers the following topics:
- Student & Academic Support Resources
- Organizing Yourself : Learning Contracts,
- Assignments, & Maintaining a Balanced Life
- Student Panel : Study Smart & Other Success Tips
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2. The Pieces of Academic Success
Rationale
Essay
Academic
Research
3. Learning Coaches & Content Tutors
• One-to-one appointments in person or via phone, e-mail, Internet, etc.
• Workshops (online & onsite)
• Small group assistance (online & onsite)
• Online Content Area Tutoring – Smarthinking (www.esc.edu/smarthinking)
Online Support
•For Academic Support Information & Materials Available 24/7 Online go to
http://NECacademicsupport.pbworks.com
•A self-paced or credit-bearing study & resources -
http://AcademicEye.pbworks.com
• On Facebook - NEC Academic Support & Student Services
Academic Support
@ NEC
Services & Resources
Helping You Connect the Pieces for Academic Success
4. What is a learning coach?
A learning coach is someone who provides academic support to students in one-on-one or small group settings in all areas of the writing process
and related study skills strategies including time management, organization, reading efficiency, developing a study plan, goal setting, critical
thinking, library research skills, note-taking, and learning styles.
Sarah Spence-Staulters is located in Latham working with Schenectady & Latham/Albany students
Her hours are: Mondays – 3pm- 7:30pm
Wednesdays – 3:00pm-7:30pm
Fridays - 9am- 4pm
Contact Sarah to make an appointment :
(518) 783-6203 ext 5992 or Sarah.Spence-Staulters@esc.edu
____________________________________________________________________________________________________
Kate Stockton is located in Latham working with Johnstown & Latham/Albany students
Her hours are: Mondays - 4:00pm-7:30pm
Wednesday - 4:00pm-7:30pm
Thursdays - 4:00pm-8:00pm
Contact Kate to make an appointment :
(518) 783-6203 ext 5992 or Kate.Stockton@esc.edu
Mary Sanders-Shartle is located in Saratoga working with Saratoga &
Queensbury students
Her hours are: Mondays – 12pm-2pm
Wednesdays – 3pm-6pm
Thursdays 4pm-6pm
Contact Mary to make an appointment :
(518) 587-2100 ext 2827 or Mary.Sanders-Shartle@esc.edu
____________________________________________________________________
Meet the Learning Coaches
5. Helping You Connect the Pieces for Academic Success
A peer coach is a current undergraduate or
graduate student trained to guide and encourage
other students in improving their academic
performance and development as a life-long
learner, focusing on general study skills, specific
content-areas, navigating college resources, and
developing within their Areas of Study.
They work in both face-to-face and virtual
environments.
Peer coaches are trained under College Reading
& Learning Association (CRLA) international
standards for peer tutors and are either
volunteers, work-study, or practicum students.
Academic Support @ NEC
6. Workshop Description
Do you read slowly? Do you have trouble
remembering what you have read? Being able
to read more efficiently and effectively will help
you be more successful with your studies at
Empire State College. This workshop is
designed to give you strategies for getting the
best value from your reading and is designed
to introduce you to a variety of reading
strategies to use before, during and after
reading to engage your thought processes and
improve your abilities to retain and analyze
what you have read. The skills and strategies
in this workshop will assist you in learning how
to best focus when you read and how to select
important information from a text in order to
recall it for class discussions and assignments.
7. http://www.esc.edu/ole
ANGEL Community Group
NEC Academic Support
• One-to-one appointments in person or via phone, e-mail, Internet, etc.
• Workshops (online & onsite)
• Small group assistance (online & onsite)
• Online Tutoring – Smarthinking (www.esc.edu/smarthinking) or (www.smarthinking.com)
Accessing Academic Support Resources
Individualized Support
9. Reads One Word at a
Time
Reads Multi-Word
Phrases
Re-reads SentencesKeeps Reading
Leaves Pages CleanMarks Text for Memory
Reads “to the end”Reads with a Purpose
Rarely (if ever) PracticesPractices Speed Reading
Lets Eyes WanderUses a Pacer
Reads Everything SameAdjusts Speed to Need
Reads WordsReads Ideas
The Slow Reader…The Efficient Reader…
10. Reading & Decoding
College reading entails having not only to read and
comprehend a subject, but it also entails reading
for a specific purpose, being able to analyze the
material you read, and to read between the
lines.
Let’s look at 3 levels of reading and decoding:
• Decoding for meaning – using context clues
• Reading for meaning – not word for word
• Reading with a purpose – knowing what you are
reading about and why you are reading it
11. Raining Cats and Dogs Belly Button
Decoding for Meaning – Using context clues
12. Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde
Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr
the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt
tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the
rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and
you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is
bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed
ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a
wlohe.
According to a researcher at Cambridge University, it doesn't matter in what order the
letters in a word are, the only important thing is that the first and last letter be at the
right place. The rest can be a total mess and you can still read it without problem.
This is because the human mind does not read every letter by itself but the word as a
whole.
http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/~mattd/Cmabrigde/
Reading for Meaning – not word for word
13. What is this about?
A newspaper is better than a magazine. A seashore is
a better place than the street. At first it is better to run
than to walk. You may have to try several times. It
takes some skill but it’s easy to learn. Even young
children can enjoy it. Once you are successful,
complications are minimal. Birds seldom get too
close. Rain, however, soaks in very fast. Too many
people doing the same thing can also cause problems.
One needs lots of room. If there are no complications,
it can be very peaceful. A rock will serve as an
anchor. If things break loose from it, however, you
will not get a second chance.
Reading with a Purpose
15. CREATE INTEREST
• Set Goals:
•“What is my purpose for doing this reading?”
•“What do I want to learn?”
• Look at lesson objectives
• Learn new vocabulary
• Preview the reading
• Review introductory information
USE WHAT YOU ALREADY KNOW
• Activate prior knowledge (schema):
“What do I know about the topic?”
Comprehension TipsComprehension Tips
Think about how to best take notes
16. *CREATE A POSITIVE READING ENVIRONMENT*
• Relatively free of interruptions (phone, email, TV, friends)
• Free of distractions (noise, people watching, windows)
• Study in the same place & time (routine)
• Not too comfortable (easily fall asleep)
• Choose a time when you are mentally alert
**INCREASE YOUR ATTENTION SPAN**
• Set specific and manageable study goals
• Read with a purpose
• Read actively (create study aids)
• Keep a distractions list
• Vary your reading
• Take breaks
• Approach assignment with a positive attitude
friends/family)
17. *CREATE A POSITIVE READING ENVIRONMENT*
• Relatively free of interruptions (phone, email, TV, friends)
• Free of distractions (noise, people watching, windows)
• Study in the same place & time (routine)
• Not too comfortable (easily fall asleep)
• Choose a time when you are mentally alert
**INCREASE YOUR ATTENTION SPAN**
• Set specific and manageable study goals
• Read with a purpose
• Read actively (create study aids)
• Keep a distractions list
• Vary your reading
• Take breaks
• Approach assignment with a positive attitude
18. Recall words, facts, dates, convention, classification,
principles, theories, etc. in the approximate form in
which they were learned.
KNOWLEDGE
Demonstrate understanding, interpret, &
extrapolate from a certain body of knowledge,
facts and ideas.
COMPREHENSION
Remember knowledge or principles in
order to solve a problem and apply rules.APPLICATION
Identify the elements (assumptions,
hypotheses, evidence) and structure
of a situation.
ANALYSIS
Accomplish a personal task
after devising plan of action.SYNTHESIS
Appraise, assess, or
critique on a basis of
Specific standards &
criteria.
EVALUATION
Identifying Your Purpose For Reading Using
Bloom’s Taxonomy
19. This is an easy thing to do. If possible, you will do it at
home, but you can always go somewhere else if it is necessary.
Beware of doing too much at once. This is a major
mistake and may cost you quite a bit of money. It is far better
to do too little than attempt to do too much. Make sure
everything is grouped properly. Put everything into its
appropriate place.
Now you are ready to proceed. The next step is to put
things into another convenient arrangement. Once done,
you’ll probably have to start again really soon. Most likely,
you’ll be doing this for the rest of your life---- perhaps not.
Who knows?
What is the following about???
20. This is an easy thing to do. If possible, you will do it at
home, but you can always go somewhere else if it is
necessary.
Beware of doing too much at once. This is a major
mistake and may cost you quite a bit of money. It is far
better to do too little than attempt to do too much. Make
sure everything is grouped properly. Put everything into
its appropriate place.
Now you are ready to proceed. The next step is to
put things into another convenient arrangement. Once
done, you’ll probably have to start again really soon.
Most likely, you’ll be doing this for the rest of your life-
--- perhaps not. Who knows?
Doing Laundry
21. Schema
A schema in general is a specific,
well-documented, and consistent
plan. The related word, scheme
means a loosely described plan.
A schema (pl. schemata), in
psychology and cognitive
science, is a mental structure
(prior knowledge) that
represents some aspect of the
world. People use schemata to
organize current knowledge
and provide a framework for
future understanding.
23. SQ3R
5 step method that was designed to help people become more active in their
reading and retain information more easily.
Survey- Read intro, summary; skim headings, boldface,
pictures, charts, graphs, etc.
Question- set purpose for reading
Read- break into sections
Recite-key information in your own words
Review -scan material; talk about it with classmate if
possible; identify themes and relationships between
concepts
SQ3R system was developed during WWII to help military personnel
enrolled in special programs ready faster and study better.
Research shows students who learn system and use it conscientiously
- read 22% faster
- comprehend 10% more
- retain 80% of material.
Textbook Study System
24. SQ5R Study Method
URVEY-Read intro, summary; skim headings,
boldface, pictures, charts, graphs, etc.
UESTION-set purpose for reading
EAD-break into sections
ESPOND-think about what you read
ECORD-highlight, take notes
ECITE-key information in your own words
EVIEW-scan material; talk about it with
classmate if possible; identify themes and
relationships between concepts
25. Survey
Objective: To get a solid overview of what you are going to be
reading.
What it does…
Prepares your mental processing system.
Why do it ?
• Better able to concentrate with a frame of reference.
• Be able to identify location of important information.
Endstate…
Better understanding/comprehension/retention of material
26. Survey Applied to Your Studies
• Begin by looking at the learning contract and
assignments
• Take note of assigned terms and problems
• Skim any handouts
• Read the introduction
• Skim (rapidly) through the chapter, notice
main headings and visuals
• Read the summary/intro overview of the
chapter
27. Goal: Read parts of text that contain the most important
information and skip what is least important.
How
• All of the steps for scanning AND
• Read first sentence of each paragraph
• Note last sentences of paragraph for summary
• Pick out and identify key words
• (vocabulary, formulas/ equations, names, numbers, dates…)
• Maps, charts, graphs, timelines or diagrams =
summary of key idea, event or relationship
• General Rule = Skip more than you read
SkimmingSkimming
28. Thinking about: Organization of TextsThinking about: Organization of Texts
EXTERNALEXTERNAL
1. Preface, table of contents, appendices,1. Preface, table of contents, appendices,
bibliography, index, title page, list of tablesbibliography, index, title page, list of tables
and illustrations, glossaryand illustrations, glossary
2. Introduction/summary statements,2. Introduction/summary statements,
headings, graphs, charts, illustrations,headings, graphs, charts, illustrations,
guide questionsguide questions
29. Restatement:
Reading What a Text Says
Description:
Describing What a Text Does
Interpretation:
Analyzing What a Text Means
30. EXAMPLES of Ways to Read and Discuss Text
From: www.criticalreading.com/ways_to_read.htm
Consider the following nursery rhyme...
Mary had a little lamb,
Its fleece was white as snow,
and everywhere that Mary went
The lamb was sure to go.
What A Text Says talks about the topic of the original text, Mary and the lamb.
Mary had a lamb that followed her everywhere.
What A Text Does talks about the story.
The nursery rhyme describes a pet that followed its mistress everywhere.
What a Text Means talks about meaning within the story, here the idea of innocent
devotion.
An image of innocent devotion is conveyed by the story of a lamb's
close connection to its mistress. The devotion is emphasized by
repetition that emphasizes the constancy of the lamb's actions
("everywhere"…"sure to go.") The notion of innocence is conveyed by
the image of a young lamb, "white as snow." By making it seem that this
connection between pet and mistress is natural and good, the nursery
rhyme asserts innocent devotion as a positive relationship.
31. SAYS/DOES EXAMPLECopyright New York Times Company Aug 9, 2005
CONGRESS has an amazing new scheme to cut crime,
automobile fatalities and energy consumption. There is one
hitch. We have to stay in bed until sunrise during the first
week of November -- lights out, televisions and radios off
and please stay away from that coffee maker.
Of course, doing so might interfere with breakfast, school
attendance, morning workouts and jobs. That's because
during that week, the sun won't rise until 7:30 a.m. at the
earliest. If you live on the western edge of your time zone,
expect darkness until 8:30 a.m. Sorry, Boise. Good night,
Grand Rapids.
Congress has extended daylight saving time by four weeks:
In 2007, our clocks will spring forward on the second
Sunday of March and fall back on the first Sunday of
November. And frankly, there may be another hitch or two
in the plan. First, the trick of shifting unused morning light
to evening was intended to exploit long summer days, when
sunrise occurs between 4:00 and 5:00 a.m. Standard Time -
- hours of daylight that do not exist during the short days of
March and November. Second, after nearly 100 years,
daylight saving has yet to save us anything. The idea of
Congress
attempts
to
influence
social
problems
with
change in
time
Change in
DLS is
extended
4 weeks
and points
out
problems
with
original
intent &
current
change
Intro to
topic with
humorous
linkages to
daily
impact of
change in
DLS.
Provides
current
state of
affairs
with &
critique of
the change
in DLS.
32. Strategies for Reading Texts
Class warfare
Time; New York; Mar 4, 2002; Ron Stodghill
Abstract:
Not everyone is as receptive to jRoTc's soft nudge into the rank and
file. "I enjoyed [JROTC] , but I never wanted to pursue a career in the
military," says the Rev. [Edward Cook], 27, a former JROTC cadet and
a 1993 graduate of Jackson's Forest Hill High School. Still, as a
seminary student and director of the day-care center at Greater New
Jerusalem Missionary Baptist Church in Jackson, Cook says those old
experiences in JROTC are proving relevant in his work today.]
33. WHO'S GOING TO ARGUE WITH this outcome? Back in 1992 Shunta Belle was on the
fast track to nowhere, "hanging around thugs and drug dealers and trying to prove myself
to them." Then, as a freshman at Provine High School in Jackson, Miss., she signed up for
the spit-and-shine, no-nonsense world of the Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps. For
the first year, Belle held on to a few of her underachieving civilian comrades. But over the
next three years, she picked up new friends, a better attitude and a fresh set of goals to
match. "I got serious about things," she says, "and I wanted to be around people who
wanted something out of life." Today Belle, 23, is a fire fighter in her hometown department.
It is stories like Belle's that have helped fuel the growth of JROTC. Started in 1916, JROTC
established a beachhead at the American Literary, Scientific and Military Academy in
Norwich, Vt. Currently the program can be found in some 3,000 public schools across the
nation, and its Pentagon funding is expected to rise more than 50%, from $215 million last
year to $326 million by 2004. JROTC has its best-known booster in Colin Powell, who was
a ROTC cadet as a student at City College of New York. As Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff, he decided that JROTC offered the best prescription for saving lost inner-city youths.
"Yes, I'll admit, the armed forces might get a youngster more inclined to enlist as a result of
Junior ROTC. But society got a far greater payoff," Powell later wrote in his 1995
autobiography, My American Journey. "Inner-city kids, many from broken homes, found
stability and role models in junior Rom They got a taste of discipline, the work ethic, and
they experienced pride of membership in something healthier than a gang."
There are quite a few people, however, who believe that those success stories come at
too high a price. After all, JROTC teaches kids how to act and think like soldiers before
they are old enough to know their own mind. Critics argue that because such programs are
among the few sources of additional funding for some of the nation's neediest schools, they
exploit poor kids by putting them on a military track, to the exclusion of other options. The
debate has heated up as a growing number of school districts have begun offering JROTC,
while others in such cities as Oakland, Calif., and Chicago have scrapped conventional
teaching methods to convert some schools into public military academies.
SAYS DOESSAYS DOES
Shunta
Bell’s life
experience
& getting on
track when
started
JROTC.
Provides
Case Study
Example of
+ impact of
JROTC
Background
info on the
history,
development
and costs of
JROTC
JROTC started
in 1916, in about
3,000 public
schools in US,
$$ up to $326
mil from $215
mil for 2004.
Collin Powell-
Poster child
example
Opposition to
JROTC –
“success
stories” have
their cost
“Exploit the
neediest kids”
“cost more
than they say”
Presents
Counter
argument to
the
positives of
JROTC
35. WHO'S GOING TO ARGUE WITH this outcome? Back in 1992 Shunta Belle was on the fast track to nowhere, "hanging
around thugs and drug dealers and trying to prove myself to them." Then, as a freshman at Provine High School in
Jackson, Miss., she signed up for the spit-and-shine, no-nonsense world of the Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps.
For the first year, Belle held on to a few of her underachieving civilian comrades. But over the next three years, she
picked up new friends, a better attitude and a fresh set of goals to match. "I got serious about things," she says, "and I
wanted to be around people who wanted something out of life." Today Belle, 23, is a fire fighter in her hometown
department.
It is stories like Belle's that have helped fuel the growth of JROTC. Started in 1916, JROTC established a beachhead at
the American Literary, Scientific and Military Academy in Norwich, Vt. Currently the program can be found in some
3,000 public schools across the nation, and its Pentagon funding is expected to rise more than 50%, from $215 million
last year to $326 million by 2004. JROTC has its best-known booster in Colin Powell, who was a ROTC cadet as a
student at City College of New York. As Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, he decided that JROTC offered the best
prescription for saving lost inner-city youths.
"Yes, I'll admit, the armed forces might get a youngster more inclined to enlist as a result of Junior ROTC. But society
got a far greater payoff," Powell later wrote in his 1995 autobiography, My American Journey. "Inner-city kids, many
from broken homes, found stability and role models in junior Rom They got a taste of discipline, the work ethic, and they
experienced pride of membership in something healthier than a gang."
There are quite a few people, however, who believe that those success
stories come at too high a price. After all, JROTC teaches kids how to act and think like
soldiers before they are old enough to know their own mind. Critics argue that because such programs
are among the few sources of additional funding for some of the nation's neediest schools, they
exploit poor kids by putting them on a military track, to the exclusion of other options. The debate has
heated up as a growing number of school districts have begun offering JROTC, while others in such cities as Oakland,
Calif., and Chicago have scrapped conventional teaching methods to convert some schools into public military
academies.
One of the biggest selling points of JROTC to school districts is that its matching federal funds provide a cost-effective
way to broaden a school's curriculum. But that's a claim opponents say masks many hidden expenses. A recent study
by the American Friends Service Committee argues, for example, that after school districts subsidize military
instructors' salaries, renovate facilities to accommodate JROTC instruction and fork over for mandated field
trips, JROTC is usually pricier than conventional academic programs.
Problem
Thesis
Reasons
Are military programs in the inner-city public schools rescuing at-risk
kids or pushing them to become soldiers?
R1
R1
36. Concept mapping can be done for several purposes:
• to generate ideas (brain storming, etc.).
• to design a complex structure (long texts, large web sites, etc.);
• to communicate complex ideas.
• to aid learning by explicitly integrating new and old knowledge
• to assess understanding or diagnose misunderstanding.
Concept maps:
• Show relationships between ideas.
• Acts as a memory trigger.
• Makes it easier to remember information.
• Improves reading comprehension.
• Unequaled tool for organizing information.
• The act of organizing materials is studying.
The Benefits of Mind Mapping
39. Supports organization of ideas
Helps form logical arguments
Serves as reminder of audience and purpose
Persuasive
Essay
Introduction State the
facts
Give brief outline
of argument to
follow
Tell why
argument is
reasonable
Address
arguments of
the other side
Summarize
your argument
41. Concept Map Practice
Instructions: Read the following passage on principles of classification, and do a concept map of everything you read in
the passage.
Classification consists of placing together in categories those things that resemble each other. While this sounds simple, in
actual practice it may be quite difficult. First of all, we have to decide what kind of similarities are the most important
for our purpose. One of the earliest classification schemes placed in one category all those organisms which lived in
the same habitat. Thus fish, whales, and penguins were classified as swimming creatures. This type of classification
was often based on the principle that creatures possessing analogous organs should be classified together.
Analogous organs are organs that have the same function. The fins of fishes and the flippers of whales and penguins
are analogous organs because they are all used for swimming. The wings of birds, bats, and insects are analogous
organs that make flying possible.
As more knowledge was gained about the anatomy of living things, it became apparent that similarities of habitat and of
analogous organs were often rather superficial. The fact that bats have fur and nurse their young, birds have feathers
and lay eggs, while insects are cold-blooded and have no internal skeleton suggested that these organisms differ
from one another in more important ways than they resemble one another. An appreciation of the truly significant
ways in which organisms resemble or differ from one another enabled the Swedish naturalist Carolus Linnaeus to
found the modern system of classification. In 1753 he published a classification of the plants which was followed, in
1758, by a classification of the animals. For this work he is often called the father of taxonomy, the name given to the
study of classification. His system of classification is fundamentally the system we use today. It is based on the
principle of homology. Homologous organs are organs which show the same basic structure, the same general
relationship to other organs, and the same pattern of very early growth. They need not, however, share the same
function. An examination of the bones of the whale's flipper, the bat's wing, and man's arm reveals the same basic
pattern (Fig.2-2). Furthermore, all these appendages are found in the same part of the body and develop in similar
ways. They are homologous organs, although they are used to carry out quite different functions. Linnaeus felt that
the difference in function was trivial, while the homology of the organs provided a sound basis for grouping these
animals together. Why is classification based upon homology so significant? The answer to this question was not
given until 1859 when Charles Darwin published his theory of evolution, According to Darwin, a classification based
upon the presence of homologous organs is a classification based upon kinship. He felt that all creatures sharing
homologous organs is a classification based upon kinship. He felt that all creatures sharing homologous organs are
related to one another, having inherited their homologous organs from a common ancestor. Thus man, the bat, and
the whale all had a single ancestor who possessed the basic forelimb structure that these creatures possess -
although obviously in a quite modified form - today.
Source: http://www.coun.uvic.ca/learning/note-taking/class1.html
43. Reading Efficiency Resources
READING TEXTS
• Pre-Reading Strategies www.studygs.net/preread.htm
• Critical Reading www.esc.edu/ESConline/Across_ESC/WritingResourceCenter.nsf/wholeshortlinks2/Academic+Reading
• Studying Efficiently gwired.gwu.edu/counsel/asc/index.gw/Site_ID/46/Page_ID/14536/
• Textbook Reading Strategies academic.cuesta.edu/acasupp/as/208.HTM
• How to Study – Reading Resources www.howtostudy.org/resources_skill.php?id=10
• Dartmouth Academic Skills Center www.dartmouth.edu/~acskills/success/reading.html
• St. Louis University Reading Resource Center www.slu.edu/x14076.xml
• Rochester Institute of Technology – Academic Support Center – On Textbook Reading
www.rit.edu/studentaffairs/asc/college_programs/lng_pwr/index.php?l1=3&l2=7&location=37
• James Cook University
– Reading Efficiency - http://www.jcu.edu.au/office/tld/learningskills/effreading/
MINDMAPPING
• Theory Behind Concept Mapping
cmap.ihmc.us/Publications/ResearchPapers/TheoryCmaps/TheoryUnderlyingConceptMaps.htm
• Mindmapping Overview members.optusnet.com.au/~charles57/Creative/Mindmap/
• Reading Comprehension & Mindmapping Video
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvnbKEHOQIY&feature=related
• University of Victoria www.coun.uvic.ca/learning/reading-skills/
• James Cook University
– Mindmapping - http://www.jcu.edu.au/office/tld/learningskills/mindmap/index.html
44. Fall 2010 Workshop Schedule
Sept.
20 Start the Term Right
27 Time Management
29 Start the Term Right
Oct.
4 Navigating the ESC Websites
6 Critical Thinking
8 Introduction Library Skills
(10am-11am )
13 Navigating the ESC Websites
14 Time Management
18 Critical Thinking
20 Reading More Efficiently
25 Leveraging Your learning Style
28 Unblock the Writing Experience
Nov.
1 Reading more Efficiently 3
3 Introduction to Library Skills
8 Unblocking the Writing Experience
17 Stress Management
19 Time Management (10am-11am)
22 Resume and Cover Letter Writing
Dec.
1 Stress Management
6 Ending the Term Right
8 Ending the Term Right
9 Writing a Rational Essay
13 Stress Management
20 Resume and Cover Letter Writing
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