Chapter 3Reading and Remembering

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Read and Remember

• Prepare: Approach the written word thoughtfully

• Organize: Gather the tools

• Work: Get the most out of your reading

• Evaluate: Consider what it means

• Rethink: Get it the second time

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Sharpen Your Reading Skills

• What kind of reader are you? What do you like to read?

• Read for retention, not speed– Reading too fast decreases comprehension– Choose to read for understanding, not speed

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SQ3R:–Survey –advanced organizers

–Question – credibility & goal

–Read- get into it

–Recite - outloud

–Review- chapter & your notes

Your Reading Skills – Prepare

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Your Reading Skills – Prepare

Use/create advance organizers

• Front-matter– Preface, table of content

• Chapter outlines, section headings, summaries

• What has your instructor said

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Your Reading Skills – Organize

• Gather what you need when reading• Highlighters, pens, a copy of your reading

assignment, paper or index cards for notetaking, a dictionary

• Determine how long your reading assignment will take

• What is your per-page reading speed for comprehension?

• How long is your assignment?• What is your attention span?• Allow for interruptions

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Your Reading Skills – Work

• Stay focused

• Write and Recite while you read– Rephrase – Highlight– Use visuals– Look up unfamiliar words

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The Secret of Memory – Work

• Use proven strategies to memorize new material

• Rehearsal

• Use multiple senses

• Visualize

• Overlearning

• Mnemonics (acronyms & acostics)

• Method of loci

• Peg method

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Mnemonics: Acronyms

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Mnemonics: Acrostic

• Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge

• My Very Excited Mother Just Served Us Natchos

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The Secret of Memory – Visualization

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Peg & Loci Method

• PEG:

• Key words tied to numbers to help you recall numeric information

• Method of Loci: (Joshua Foer)

• Latin for “places”

• Information is divided into sequences

• Information is partitioned like rooms of a house

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• What does it all mean?– Identify main themes and apply them to you

personally– Prioritize the ideas– Assess the author’s points– Explain concept to someone else– Use in-text questions or review materials – Be honest with yourself

Your Reading Skills – Evaluate

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• Rethink what you’ve read within 24 hours of initially reading it

• Reread more difficult material, skim less important

• Think deeply about the material

• Rethinking transfers material from your short term memory to your long term memory

Your Reading Skills – Rethink

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Advanced Organizer for Chapter 5

1. The general topics that are covered in the chapter are…

2. The most critical topics and concepts in the chapter are…

3. The most difficult material in the chapter includes…

4. Word, phrases, and ideas that are unfamiliar to me are…

5. Ways that the material in this chapter relates to other material that I’ve previously read in the text include…