THINK
This chapter is full of strategies for effectively reading your college textbooks. What strategies did you find the most useful? What do you think is your biggest challenge in using these strategies to improve your reading habits?
| Strategies I learned and will use: | Challenges in using the strategies: |
| 1. ___________________________ | 1. _____________________ |
| 2. ___________________________ | 2. _____________________ |
| 3. ___________________________ | 3. _____________________ |
WRITE
It is easy to say that there is not enough time in the day to get everything done, especially when you have a long reading assignment. Challenge yourself to avoid using this excuse. How can you modify your daily activities to make time for reading? What have you learned in this chapter that can help you with that?
APPLY
Look through your course syllabi and identify a chapter that you need to read in the next couple of weeks. Preview the chapter and prepare an outline in your notebook or on a digital device, using the following format, based on the headings and subheadings:
Title:
As you read a chapter of this or another textbook, organize the information in the following table:
| Date: | Course: |
| Textbook: | Chapter # and Title: |
| What is the overall idea of the reading? | |
What is the main idea of each major section of the reading? Section 1: Section 2: Section 3: | |
What supporting ideas are presented in each section of the reading? Examples? Statistics? Any reference to research? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. | |
| What are the key terms, and what do they mean? | |
| What are the conclusions from the reading? | |
What are two or three things I remember after reading? 1. 2. 3. | |