1. The Ultimate Reading Workshop
Yeshiva university
Office of Academic Support
Furst Hall 412

2. To become EFFICIENT, ACTIVE and CRITICAL readers
Reading Goals
To become EFFICIENT, ACTIVE and CRITICAL readers

3. True or False?
“If I always read more slowly I will better understand difficult concepts and confusing texts.”
FALSE: Sometimes reading slowly can impair your understanding. Slow readers are more likely to miss the point or get bogged down with minute detail.

4. Factors that Reduce Reading Rate and Comprehension
Limited perceptual span or excessive fixation
Rereading
Vocalization
Subvocalization
Distractions
Lack of reading practice

5. Benefits of Active Reading
Active readers will:
be less likely to slip into automatic pilot
use powerful multisensory strategies
increase reading comprehension
read to remember

6. Essential Strategies for Textbook Reading
Begin with a clear intention to understand what you read
Be inquisitive
Relate new information to prior knowledge
Manage your textbook reading time effectively

7. Step I: Surveying the Text
Helps to see the big picture
Activates prior knowledge
Sets the stage to create new associations
Enhances motivation and interest
Boosts confidence
Provides information about length and difficulty of the reading material
Helps set realistic goals to manage time effectively

8. How to Survey the Text Read titles and subtitles
Read the introduction or first paragraph
Read headings
Read the first sentence under the heading
Watch for typographical and graphic aids
Read the summary

9. Step II: Formulate Questions
Formulating questions is an active reading strategy that promotes purposeful reading, activates curiosity, improves comprehension, and helps sustain attention.

10. Step III: Adjust Your Reading Rate
It is important to adjust your rate of reading to the difficulty of the text and the purpose of your reading. Effective readers adjust their rate, while ineffective readers apply the same rate to everything they read.

11. Reasons to Improve Reading Rate
In college, you have a great deal of reading and limited time
Reading too slowly reduces comprehension
Reading too decreases interest in the text

12. When to increase speed The material is simple
The content is repetitive
You are familiar the information
You are not reading to remember facts and details
You are searching for specific information

13. Ways to Increase Reading Rate and Comprehension
Read in a quiet distraction free environment
Set your purpose for reading and self-monitor
Increase your eye span
Use a pen as a pacer to increase the number of words within a chunk

14. How to monitor comprehension
Answer the guide questions that you developed prior to reading and check that you can answer them
Try to predict possible test questions
Take practice quizzes

15. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO Learn More About reading skills…
Visit the Office of Academic Support
Furst Hall 412

16. Sources
"Active Reading: Comprehension and Rate." Reading Your Textbooks Effectively and Efficiently. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 July 2016.
Hopper, Carolyn H. “5-10." Practicing College Learning Strategies. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, N. Print.
Marks-Beale, Abby. "2." Success Skills: Strategies for Study and Lifelong Learning. Mason, OH: Thomson South-Western, 2007.
McWhorter, Kathleen T. "2." College Reading and Study Skills. Boston: Little, Brown, Wong, Linda. Essential Study Skills. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, Print.