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4.3: How Do You Read to Learn?

• College Success: "Chapter 5, Section 5.2: How Do You Read to Learn?" >

  Read Section 5.2. This section presents the four steps of active reading, an approach to reading a text that will allow you to absorb more information from a text in a shorter amount of time. This is a valuable skill you should work to acquire because you will be responsible for a great deal of reading as a college student! Make sure to complete the checkpoint exercises at the end of the reading.
  

• 4.3.1: Preparing to Read

  • Advanced Reading Skills Practice, Part One URL

    Complete this activity, in which you will practice active reading and the Cornell Method on a text of your choice. Be sure to answer reflective question at the end of this activity.

• 4.3.2: Reviewing What You Read

  • The University of British Columbia: "Textbook Reading" URL

    Watch the video under the heading titled "Learn." Take notes as you watch, and then review your notes as well as the graphics under the webpage's heading titled "Visualize." Finally, complete the exercise under the heading titled "Apply" and email the answers to yourself.

• 4.3.3: Practice Your Advanced Reading Skills Now

  • Advanced Reading Skills Practice, Part Two URL

    Complete this activity, in which you will continue working on the reading selection you chose in the first part of this activity. As you read, you will follow up on the previous activity, answering the questions you wrote down. You will also write a brief reflection on your reading experience.