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Chapter 3

Reading As ThinkingPowerPoint by Gretchen Starks-Martin

St. Cloud State University, MN

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THIS CHAPTER WILL SHOW YOU HOW TO:

1. Preview before reading

2. Develop questions to guide your reading

3. Review after you read

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How to Preview: Read

1. The Title and Subtitle2. Chapter Introduction3. The First Paragraph4. Boldfaced Headings5. The First Sentence under Each Heading6. Typographical Aids7. Graphs, Charts, and Pictures8. The Final Paragraph or Summary9. End-of-Chapter Material

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Previewing Articles and Essays

1. Check the author’s name.

2. Check the source of the article.

3. If there are no headings, read the first sentence of a few paragraphs throughout the essay.

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LEARNING STYLE TIPS

Auditory learner: asking and answering guide questions aloud or tape-recording them

Visual learner: writing guide questions and their answers.

Are you an auditory or visual learner?

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Discover What You Already Know

Makes reading easier because you have already thought about the topic.

Makes material easier to remember because you can connect the new information with what you already know.

Makes topics more interesting if you can link them to your own experiences.

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How to Use Background Knowledge

1. Ask questions and try to answer them.

2. Draw upon your own experience.3. Brainstorm.

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DEVELOP QUESTIONS TO GUIDE YOUR READING:

How to Ask Guide Questions

1. Preview before you try to ask questions.

2. Turn each major heading into a series of questions.

3. As you read the section, look for the answers to your questions. Highlight the answers as you find them.

4. When you finish reading a section, stop and check to see whether you can recall the answers. Place check marks by those you cannot recall.

5. Avoid asking questions that have one-word answers.

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Creating Questions

Heading Reducing Prejudice The Deepening

Recession Newton’s First Law of

Motion

Questions How can prejudice be

reduced? What type of prejudice is discussed?

What is a recession? Why is it deepening?

Who is or was Newton? What is his first law of motion?

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READ FOR MEANING

Read to answer your guide questions.

Highlight answers to questions.Highlight what is important in each

paragraph.

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TEST YOUR RECALL AS YOU READ

Write your guide questions in the textbook margin.

Cover the textbook section and try to recall the answer.

If you cannot, reread the section. Repeat the answer aloud or write it out.

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REVIEW AFTER YOU READ

Go back through what you have just read.

Look things over one more time.Use the same steps as you used

to preview the material.

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BUILDING A SYSTEM: SQ3R

S – Survey (Preview) Q – Question (Ask Guide Questions) R – Read (Read for Meaning) R – Recite (Test Yourself) R – Review (Review After You Read)

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SELF-TEST SUMMARY

What techniques can you use before reading to read efficiently?

How can you read for meaning? How can you test our recall as you read? What is the SQ3R system?

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Visit the Companion Website

For additional readings, exercises, and Internet activities, visit this book’s Companion

Website at:

www.ablongman.com/mcwhorter

If you need a user name and password, please see your instructor.

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MyReadingLab

For more practice with active reading skills, visit MyReadingLab, click on the Reading Skills tab, and

then click on Active Reading Strategies---New Orleans, Louisiana

www.ablongman.com/myreading.lab

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TEST-TAKING TIPS:Reading Comprehension Test Passages

Glance through the passage quickly. What is it about? This will help you focus and give you an idea about what you are about to read.

Do not approach the passage as something you have to learn. Approach it as something you simply need to understand.

As you read, do not try to remember all the facts and details. Just try to remember what information is given.

Since many tests are timed, it is important to work efficiently, not spending too much time on any one troublesome item.