Adopting reading styles

Adopting reading styles

1. What are you reading?

   • Poems
   • Comics
   • News
   • Instructional books

2. Speed Reading

   • Skim
   • Scanning

3. Active Reading

   • We've all sat at a desk at some point "reading" the same page over and over again, with very little of it going in.

4. Study Reading

   • Survey
   • Question
   • Read
   • Recall
   • Review

5. Assimilating Difficult Material

   • Get an overview of how the material is organized: Scan the section for titles, headings, sub-headings, and topic sentences to get its general idea.

6. Summary Sheet

   • The title of the book, essay or journal article
   • The author
   • The main subject