Reading Strategies

 1. Planning strategies.To help you manage your reading

assignments. 2. Comprehension strategies.To help you
understand the material. 3. Active reading
strategies.To take your understanding to a higher and
deeper level.
1.Planning strategies
 Planning Your Reading
 Managing Your Reading Time
 Setting a Purpose
 How did my instructor frame the assignment
 How deeply do I need to understand the reading
 How does this assignment relate to other course readings or to concepts
discussed in class?
 How might I use this text again in the future?
2.Comprehension strategies
 Improving Your Comprehension
 Identifying the Main Points
 Textbooks
 Nonfiction trade books
 Popular magazine, newspaper, or web articles
 Scholarly books and journal articles
 Trade books
 Popular article
Monitoring Your Comprehension

 Summarize
 Ask and answer questions
 Do not read in a vacuum
3.Taking It to the Next Level: Active
Reading
 Using the SQ3R Strategy
 1. Surveythe text in advance. 2. Formquestionsbefore
you start reading. 3. Readthe text. 4.
Reciteand/orrecordimportant points during and after
reading. 5. Reviewandreflecton the text after you read.