Active Learning
Reading Skills & Strategies
Reading at College Level
Comprehending College Level Reading
100

The four ways to get involved in the classroom.

Asking questions, taking notes, thinking as you are listening, and conversing with other students and the instructor about ideas

100

This is something students at the college have to learn to locate outside the classroom.

resources

100

This is the third step of active reading.

Highlight

100

Between these set of years a number of "strategies" were devised for teaching students to employ self-guided methods for improving reading comprehension.

1969 and about 2000

200

This is the main purpose of using your resources.

You better your chances of success in reaching your goals 

200
Identifying these two things will help you be more open and ask questions in discussions.

Main Idea & Theme

200

To restate an idea so you understand it is to.

Paraphrase 

200

Comprehension levels can now be observed through this.

fMRI, functional magnetic resonance imaging 

300

In active learning, understanding the main idea helps you differentiate between these two things.

main idea & minor details 

300

This reading strategy helps you learn more about what to do before reading.

pre-reading strategies

300
This step can help you figure out the thesis.

Chunk 

300

This approach was developed by Andrew Biemiller.

Broad vocabulary approach

400

Fill in the blank 

The black shirt looked better with the pants,______ ________ the teal shirt.

Rather than 

400

We may lack these skills when it comes to knowing and not knowing what we are reading.

metacognitive skills 

400

Doing this consists of writing down the important points, ideas, and terms in your own words.

Summarize

400

This is also known as comprehension through discussion.

Instructional conversations

500

These are words that signal factual information in support of an argument.

because, since, in light of

500

It's important to pay attention to these being that they show relationships between different types of data/information.

Graphs or Charts

500

Margin noting is apart of this strategy.

Comprehension Monitoring 

500

This is an example of a text factor

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