Properly we should read for power. Man reading
should be man intensely alive. The book should be a
ball of light.
Ezra Pound 1885 - 1972 American poet
Reading and research series
SQ3R reading method
SQ3R is a reading strategy formed from its letters:
Survey! Question! Read! Recite!
Review!
SQ3R will help you build a framework to understand your
reading assignment.
Before you read, Survey the
chapter:
the title, headings, and subheadings
captions under pictures, charts, graphs or maps
review questions or teacher-made study guides
introductory and concluding paragraphs
summary
Question while you are
surveying:
Turn the title, headings, and/or subheadings into
questions
Read questions at the end of the chapters or after each
subheading
Ask yourself, "What did my instructor say about this
chapter or subject when it was assigned?"
Ask yourself, "What do I already know about this
subject?" Note: If it is helpful to you, write
out these questions for consideration. This variation is
called SQW3R
When you begin to Read:
Look for answers to the questions you first raised
Answer questions at the beginning or end of chapters or
study guides
Reread captions under pictures, graphs, etc.
Note all the underlined, italicized, bold printed words
or phrases
Study graphic aids
Reduce your speed for difficult passages
Stop and reread parts which are not clear
Read only a section at a time and recite after each
section
Recite after you've read a section:
Orally ask yourself questions about what you have just
read, or summarize, in your own words, what you read
Take notes from the text but write the information in
your own words
Underline or highlight important points you've just read
Reciting: The more senses you use the more likely
you are to remember what you read Triple strength learning:
Seeing, saying, hearing
Quadruple strength learning: Seeing , saying , hearing,
writing!!!
Review: an ongoing process
Day One
After you have read and recited the entire chapter,
write questions in the margins for those points
you have highlighted or underlined.
If you took notes while reciting, write questions for
the notes you have taken
in the left hand margins of your notebook.
Page through the text and/or your notebook to re-acquaint yourself
with the important points.
Cover the right hand column of your text/note-book and orally
ask yourself the questions in the left hand margins.
Orally recite or write the answers from memory.
Develop mnemonic devices for material which need to be memorized.
Make flash cards for those questions which give you difficulty.
Days Three, Four and Five
Alternate between your flash cards
and notes and test yourself
(orally or in writing) on the
questions you formulated.
Make additional flash cards if
necessary.
Weekend
Using the text and notebook, make a Table of Contents -
list all the topics and sub-topics you need to know from the
chapter.
From the Table of Contents, make a Study Sheet/ Spatial
Map.
Recite the information orally and in your own words as
you put the Study Sheet/Map together.
As you have consolidated all the information you need
for this chapter, periodically review the Sheet/Map so that
at test time
you will not have to cram.
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