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2.
Set goals for yourself before you read.
Have you
ever started to read an assignment and forgotten almost
everything by the time you’ve finished? Do you blame your own reading ability? If you do, you are wrong! Instead you need to discover a little-known
fact about college reading: You need a strategy to
set goals for yourself as a reader.
How to Set Goals for Reading
College
Texts
A good strategy includes tasks to do before,
during and after you read. You set reading goals by formulating questions
to answer. By
having questions, you will read more purposively,
with more memory and understanding. This is true even if you don’t find answers
to your questions.
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Pre-Reading
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During
& Post Reading
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Post-Reading
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Directions: Formulate three questions and list them
on paper. Your
goal will be to find their answers.
Strategies
to formulate questions include:
- Read the first and last
paragraphs.
- Use your own knowledge
of the topic
- Examine headings, pictures
or diagrams
- Turn title into question.
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Directions: List any answers to your questions.
Generate three new questions and list
them on paper.
Strategies
to generate new questions include:
- Ask, “What vocabulary
or ideas are unclear?”
- Ask, “What would I like
to know more about?”
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Directions: Circle any questions that are
left unanswered.
You can ask these in class, or find there
answers in other sources.
Also
create three good questions that could be on
the test. You should know the answers. Ask the questions to a study partner.
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Once
you’ve practiced this strategy, trying recording questions
in the margin of your textbook.
Also invent symbols as a kind of “shorthand.” For example:
? = unknown term or something
unclear.
T.Q. = possible test question.
M.I. = main idea.
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