1. Well Formed Outcomes What is your purpose ? What’s stopped you (slowed you down) before ? What do you get out of what you do now ? How can you improve ? How will you know when you’ve achieved your purpose ?

2. Purpose Select potential sources Identify key themes Master ideas – primary sources Gather supporting evidence – secondary sources Interest

3. Reading barriers Mouthing words Reading word by word Going backwards Losing your place Struggling because you ‘have to’ Stopping to check unfamiliar terms

4. Solution Keep going !

5. Reading Strategies Selecting sources / Identifying themes Covers blurb Contents Preface / foreword / abstract Author information Chapter introductions / conclusions Figures / diagrams / statistics

6. Reading Strategies Mastering primary ideas Reading carefully Reading in detail Note-making Active (questioning) involvement - What are the main points ? - Is it convincing ? (why / why not ?) - What are the implications ?

7. Reading Strategies Mastering primary ideas Process: - What’s my purpose ? - Skim read first for context - Detailed reading with questioning mind - Make notes regularly - Summarise notes - Try summarising without reference to notes

8. Reading Strategies Gathering supportive evidence Where are the key points ? Introduction Conclusion The topic sentence of each paragraph (often the first) Summarise Reference

9. Reading strategies Enjoyable engagement Find the best time Allocate short, regular times Engage with the subject Listen to music ? Focus without distraction

10. How do you feel about reading ? Ways of making it more enjoyable … … read what you like … share with a friend … set limits, engage actively, stop

11. Note-making Purposes 1: Summarising

12. Note-making Purposes 2: Synthesising

13. Note-making Purposes 3: Critically analysing

14. i thank You God for most this amazing day; for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything which is natural which is infinite which is yes (i who have died am alive again today, and this is the sun’s birthday; this is the birth day of life and love and wings; and of the gay great happening illimitably earth)