Reading Strategies
This strategy involves writing notes, highlighting key ideas, or asking questions while you read.
What is active reading?
This term refers to gaining knowledge or skills through study, experience, or instruction.
What is learning?
This type of reading is done quickly to get the main idea or overall structure of a text.
What is skimming?
This note-taking method lists ideas using headings, subheadings, and bullet points.
What is the outline method?
This reading strategy encourages you to engage all your senses by verbalizing what you’ve read.
What is reciting?
This taxonomy, introduced in the chapter, shows the progression from remembering information to creating something new as part of the learning process.
What is Bloom’s Taxonomy?
This type of reading involves understanding material you are already somewhat familiar with and skimming to confirm or expand your knowledge.
What is reading to comprehend familiar content?
This note-taking method divides the page into a main notes section, a recall column, and a summary area.
What is the Cornell Method
Before you begin detailed reading, you do this to get an overview of headings, summaries, and keywords.
What is surveying the text?
According to the chapter, effective learning requires actively engaging with material rather than doing this passive behavior.
What is just rereading or memorizing without understanding?
This type of reading is done to explore or gain information about new topics that you don’t already know much about.
What is reading to introduce new content?
This strategy suggests reviewing notes soon after class to improve understanding and memory.
What is reviewing and revising notes?
This active reading technique stands for Survey, Question, Read, Recite, Review.
What is the SQ3R Reading Strategy?
According to the chapter, reading and taking notes are integral parts of this overall process that changes your brain and helps you retain new skills.
What is the learning process?
This type of reading involves looking for specific information such as dates, names, or keywords.
What is scanning?
This style of note-taking visually connects main ideas and supporting details, often with bubbles or lines.
What is concept mapping (or mind mapping)?
What are the components of Recursive Reading?
1. Prior knowledge 2. Ask questions 3. Infer and imply 4. Learn new vocabulary 5. Evaluate the reading 6. Apply the reading to other learning and situations
This term describes the brain’s ability to form new neural pathways as you learn and practice new material.
What is neuroplasticity?
In college, students often need to adjust their reading schedules and develop curiosity about texts because of this modern challenge that competes for attention.
What is information overload and distractions?
After initial note-taking, this step helps reinforce memory and meaning by underlining, highlighting, or adding questions.
What is annotating notes?