The Six Habits of Reading

The Six Habits of Reading Preview Annotate Outline, Summarize, and Analyze Look for repetitions and patterns. Contextualize Compare and Contrast

Six Reading Habits Previewing Look around the text before you start reading. Check out subtitles, bold print, underlined words, or italics. The layout of the text can give you clues.

Six Reading Habits Annotating Shows your dialogue with an author. Gives your responses to ideas you encounter. Throw away your highlighter. Mark up the margins. Develop your own symbol system. Get in the habit of asking yourself questions that do not have an answer.

Six Reading Habits Outline, Summarize, Analyze Take the information apart, look at the parts, and then try to put it back together again in language that is meaningful to you. Outline: This can be done informally or formally using Roman numerals to create a skeleton of the text. Summarize: This accomplishes something similar, but in sentence and paragraph form. Analyzing: This step adds an evaluative component as it requires you to reflect and make decisions about the information.

Six Reading Habits Repetitions and Patterns Look at the way that language is chosen, used, and positioned in the text. Recurring images Repeated words, phrases, types of examples, or illustrations Consistent ways of characterizing people, events, or issues

Six Reading Habits Contextualize Take stock for a moment and put it in perspective. Re – view looking at historical, cultural, material, or intellectual circumstances.

Compare and Contrast Six Reading Habits Set course readings against each other to determine their relationships. We do this to see how pieces of writing relate to each other.