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How to Read and Understand College Texts

Solve the Mystery!. How to Read and Understand College Texts. Kristy Kolzow. How knowledgeable and efficient of a reader are you?. Take the textbook study method inventory to find out. How did you do?. Six Reading Myths. Uncover the mystery to reading like a pro. Myths Uncovered.

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How to Read and Understand College Texts

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  1. Solve the Mystery! How to Read and Understand College Texts Kristy Kolzow

  2. How knowledgeable and efficient of a reader are you? Take the textbook study method inventory to find out.

  3. How did you do?

  4. Six Reading Myths Uncover the mystery to reading like a pro.

  5. Myths Uncovered

  6. Get to know your textbooks • Scan the preface or introduction • Scan the table of contents • Scan the index, glossary, and other material at the back of the book • Scrutinize study questions, guides and other helps • Scan chapter headings, sectional headings and items in the margin • Examine maps, pictures, charts, diagrams and tables Academic Skills Center, Dartmouth College 2001

  7. Ready to Read • Divide the chapter into sections • Space out your reading • Use the chapter headings to make questions • Take notes as you read • Stop to monitor your comprehension • ARE YOU GETTING IT? Adapted from Orientation to College Learning

  8. How to Take Notes • ISWAM • During Lecture • SCROL • While Reading • TASSEL • Staying on Task Information about these strategies is available in your handouts. Academic Skills Center, Dartmouth College 2001

  9. Academic Survival How to pass the test successfully.

  10. Can you SPORT? Say to yourself “Where did I see this information?” Picture what you read. Organize in your mind all your study aids. Remember to “dump” information (fill the margins). Tell yourself to go back to the “dumped” info.

  11. Have we solved the mystery?? Now use the clues you have been given to read your textbooks like a pro.

  12. Let’s Comprehend! How to better understand what you read.

  13. Tricks to Comprehension • Understanding metaphors • Using comparisons • Read with purpose • FIRST • Read the outline • Read the summary questions • Increase vocabulary • Look over vocabulary list for the chapter

  14. More Tricks • Read aloud • Good for ALL learning styles • Translate the information into simple language • Jot down notes • As you read the text *Tricks from Trenna Sue Hiler

  15. Why Read? Reasons to read outside of the classroom.

  16. Reasons to Read

  17. Higher GPA, more general knowledge, and higher intelligence. Enhanced smarts.

  18. Allows your mind to shift gears. Reduces stress.

  19. Makes you sit still, be quiet and relax. Greater tranquility.

  20. Readers have more general knowledge and can spot patterns which increases analytical thinking. Improved analytical thinking.

  21. The more you read, the more words you will see and learn. Increased vocabulary.

  22. Increased vocabulary and critical thinking makes for a better writer. Improved writing skills.

  23. Kinds of reading How do we read?

  24. Running the eyes over quickly, to get the gist. Skimming • Newspaper • Travel brochure for interest

  25. Looking for a particular piece of information. Scanning • Newspaper • The telephone directory • A train timetable • Travel brochure for a resort

  26. Longer texts for pleasure and needing global understanding. Extensive reading • A novel • Poem

  27. Shorter texts, extracting specific information, accurate reading for detail. Intensive reading • Text in class • Postcard • Recipe • Travel brochure for detail

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