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Reading Your Textbook
Marking Your Textbook
Organizing Text Information
Preparing for Exams
Taking Objective Tests
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Statements that can be verified as true or false.
What are "facts"?
100
Involves dragging your marker across select words or phrases after you have finished reading the sentence or paragraph to “mark” them for later review.
What is "highlighting"?
100
This is a graphic display of information that shows both the similarities and differences of related information.
What is a "chart"?
100
This is a structured plan that helps students incorporate active learning strategies, spaced practice, and self-testing strategies into their study.
What is the "Five-Day Study Plan"
100
Absolute words imply that there are no exceptions. Some examples of absolute words are: never, always, none, all, and only.
What are "absolute words"?
200
One of the critical reading skills; this involves understanding what you read.
What is "comprehension".
200
These are summary statements in written in the margin of the text. They sum up key points or comment on the material.
What are "marginal notes"?
200
When you add recall questions or make notes in the margin of the text, you are ________ing the text.
What is "annotate"?
200
These help students learn definitions to technical terms. They can also be used to identify names, dates, events, theories, formulas, or diagrams.
What are "word cards"?
200
A high level of anxiety about exams that can interfere with a student’s ability to prepare for or take an exam.
What is "debilitating test anxiety"? (or "test anxiety")
300
This is a reading/study system designed for easy to average texts. Students preview, read actively, and review to build comprehension and memory of the material.
What is "P2R"?
300
This involves marking a series of words within a sentence or across several sentences that when connected create a meaningful phrase that represents a point made within the material.
What is "linking"?
300
_________ maps are visual displays of information that present information in a top-down model.
What are "hierarchical maps"?
300
These are primarily writing strategies that help students identify, condense, organize, and write the important information.
What are "preparation strategies"?
300
These types of words qualify or “temper” statements to allow for exceptions and are generally associated with correct or true statements. Some examples of these words are: may, can, usually, often, sometimes, and many.
What are "qualifying words"?
400
Students should do this as they read text material. Students can highlight the text, annotate the text, write questions in the margin of the text, or take notes to stay engaged.
What is "reading actively"? (or "active reading")
400
These are general statements that the author makes about a particular topic. They are generally found in the first sentence of a paragraph.
What are "main ideas"?
400
In this graphical display of information, information radiates out from a central focal point.
What is a "semantic web"? (or "line map" or "wheel map")
400
These are mainly recitation strategies and are designed to provide more practice on the material, strengthen understanding, encourage self-testing, evaluate, and extend learning. Some examples are reciting word or question cards, answering questions in the margin, replicating study sheets, and taking self-tests.
What are "review strategies"?
400
These are incorrect answers in multiple choice or matching tests that are designed to appear correct but are not.
What are "distractors"?
500
This involves pulling information together from individual statements made in the paragraph (or headed section) into more general ideas or concepts.
What is "synthesis"?
500
This is a way to evaluate the quality of your marking. After an exam, reread part of chapter that was heavily tested upon. Put a ___ in the margin to indicate that a test question was based on the material. Count to see how many of the ___s were in marked material.
What is the "T Method"?
500
In this type of information organizing structure, aach heading, subheading, and detail is indented to indicate its level of subordination and labeled with a Roman numeral, capital or small letter, and numbers.
What is a "formal outline"?
500
Test questions that require students to understand the material well enough to identify concepts even when they are phrased differently.
What are "comprehension-level questions"?
500
Students should do this when they know they studied the material but can’t retrieve the answer. Thinking about which chapter the material was in, where or when you studied it, or even which study sheet was on may help you come up with a cue to the answer.
What is a "memory search"?