Reading Protocol
To aid students in accordance with processing challenging material, the following strategies have been devised:
General:
-Divide the text into smaller sections
-Reread text aloud
-Synthesize text in a way you can easily understand
-Discuss what you've read with another person
-Take a break to allow information to percolate
Highlighting and taking notes:
- identify and define unfamiliar vocabulary
deduction by context, or
search secondary resources (dictionary, thesaurus)
- Draw an outline or list main ideas and sub-points
- Develop diagrams to aid in visualizing the content of the text
- Be aware of thoughtfully organized, italicized, repeated, underlined or emboldened terms
-Use a tape recorder
Questions:
- Ask yourself,
"For what reason/s am I reading this?"
"Why did the author include this particular point?"
"Of what experience does _____ remind me?"
"What are the similarities and differences between___ and____?"
"What predictions can I make?"
"How does this title/section/detail relate to the composition as a whole?"
"How does this text make me feel?"
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