1. Take Charge of Your Reading
You’re the best judge of your own understanding. That’s why you need to take charge of your reading.
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2. How Difficult Is My Assignment?
Interest
Friendliness
FLIP
Prior Knowledge
Language
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3. My Reading Condiments Budget Time Reading Rate Purpose
Short assignments - comfortable level
one sitting
Longer assignments
chunk it
Pleasure?
Discussion?
Questions?
Test?
Rapid?
Medium?
Slow?
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4. Comprehension Awareness
Clunk
Click
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5. After I have read an assignment, what do I do if I just don’t get it?
Right after you finish reading a paragraph or a page, think “click” or “clunk.”
If it’s a “click,” keep on reading.
If it’s a “clunk,” try one of the reading repairs.
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6. Reading Repairs Slow down - 60 mph 15 mph Keep reading
Read again and again
paraphrase
get an idea
Create visuals
charts
graphs
graphic organizers
tables
pictures
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7. Reading Repairs Look it up Try another source Ask for help dictionary
glossary
encyclopedia
textbook
newspaper
Try another source
Ask for help
friend
teacher
parent
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8. I would advise you to read with a pen in your hand, and enter in a little book short hints of what you find that is curious, or that might be useful; for this will be the best method of imprinting such particulars in your memory, where they will be ready, on some future occasion, to adorn and improve your conversation.
Ben Franklin
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9. Be An Active Reader Use the author’s organization. Outlining
Keep your notes brief.
Outlining
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10. Be An Active Reader
Flash cards
Study tapes
Note-taking
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11. Be An Active Reader Semantic Map Author’s organization
Main idea with shape around it
Secondary ideas
Important details
Talk yourself through it
Semantic Map
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12. Be An Active Reader Summary Read Underline Edit Rewrite Check
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13. Be An Active Reader Annotate & Highlight Highlight new words
major points
{Bracket key passages}
* important facts
Order items in a series with numbers
? items you don’t understand
Summarize key paragraphs in the margin
Don’t overmark!
Annotate & Highlight
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14. Be Flexible Vary reading rate Break bad habits Practice
Speed up, but don’t lose comprehension!
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15. Be a Speedier Reader Careful, analytical 50-300 WPM textbooks
Rapid Reading
WPM
magazines
newspapers
books for pleasure
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16. Be a Speedier Reader Skimming up to 1500 WPM previewing chapters
previewing news articles
Scanning
up to 3000 WPM
phone book
dictionary
answers in a textbook
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17. Break Bad Habits
Hold a card under the line you are reading instead of pointing.
Read with your eyes and not your mouth.
Read without rereading everything.
Read in word groups.
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18. Practice Use 4 reading rates.
Time reading rate.
Rapid read article; write short summary.
Skim newspapers or magazines; write short summary.
Scan a sports article for high-action verbs.
Read mysteries to practice increasing speed.
Try reading your textbooks faster.
Try word-group reading a newspaper, where the columns are thin and the words group naturally.
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19. Textbook Baseball
What do reading a textbook chapter and playing baseball have in common?
They both take time and patience.
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20. Textbook Baseball The Warm-Up Read the chapter title.
Read the headings and subheadings.
Look at the illustrations and read the captions.
Read the summary and questions.
The Warm-Up
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21. Textbook Baseball The Wind-Up Turn each subheading into a question.
This will start you thinking about what information each section will contain.
The Wind-Up
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22. Textbook Baseball The Pitch Read each chapter section.
Keep your wind-up questions in mind.
Look for the answers.
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23. Textbook Baseball
Answer your wind-up questions. Try to make each one a hit. If you can’t think of an answer…steee-rike! Try again. Reread that chapter section to find the answer to your question.
The Hit
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24. Textbook Baseball
After you’ve read each chapter section, go back and review your wind-up questions and answers.
This will add up to a run--you’ll score! And you’ll score on a test, too.
The Run
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25. Examine: What was said? How was it said? Who said it?
Be a Critical Reader
Read for main idea.
Author’s qualifications/purpose
Identify 3-4 facts.
Examine: What was said? How was it said? Who said it?
You decide if you agree or disagree and explain why.
Is the author biased or impartial?
Look for some emotion.
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26. "You might think that I live, eat, and sleep baseball, and there's a lot of truth to that, but I also love reading. I love sports books, of course, but I also enjoy a good mystery or novel, history or other non-fiction, and lately even philosophy. I especially love sharing books with my children. By reading to them, I'm able to show them how important - and fun - reading is. To find out for yourself try opening a book. It's ... The Only Way I Know."
Cal Ripkin, Jr.
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