Reading Effectively

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• Introduction
  What are the challenges of university reading?
  
  How effective a reader are you?
  
• The APE of reading effectively
  What is reading effectively?
  
  • Active reading
  • Purposeful reading
    What does reading with a purpose help you do?
    
  • Engaged and critical reading
• Critical reading
  What is critical reading?
  
  • Why read critically?
    A particular ‘reality’
    
  • How to read critically
    1. Read the text for basic comprehension — read with the author
    
    2. Read critically — test the author
    
    3. Construct a response
    
  • Critical reading worksheet
• SQ4R: An Effective Reading Strategy
  SQ4R: An effective reading strategy
  
  SQ4R at a glance
  
  • Survey the text
    What do you skim?
    
    SQ4R in action
    
  • Question the text
    Check your understanding of these four levels of questioning
    
    SQ4R in Action
    
  • Read the text
    SQ4R in action
    
  • Recite the text
    SQ4R in action
    
  • Relate the text
  • Review the text
    SQ4R in action
    
  • SQ4R template
• Other strategies
  Other strategies
  
  • Understanding text structure
    Paragraph structure (the SEC model)
    
    Controlling idea
    
    Text cohesion: use of linking words
    
  • Understanding text types
    Identifying text type
    
  • Using context cues
    Context cues (note the punctuation)
    
    Practise with context cues
    
    Now you try:
    
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• Practice
  Practice
  
  Practising SQ4R with shorter texts
  
  Hobbies
  
  • Practice with longer texts
    Applying strategies in longer texts
    
• Feedback
  Feedback