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Active readingPPT
Active readingPPT
From: College Rules!, 3rd edition, How to Study, Survive, and Succeed in College
Don’t Read Homework Like You Read a Magazine
• Think about the ideas you’ve read. If you were going to talk to
someone about the information, what would be important to tell
them? This will be the information you will annotate.
Annotation: Text messages for active Reading
Write Key ideas in the margins. Think text messaging.
• Definitions.
• Lists. Listed items are usually important. If you notice that text that isn’t in
a list but could be summed up in a list, annotate it in this way.
http://www.lbcc.edu/astarros/documents/active.reading.PP.pdf
Studying Your Annotations
1. Create a chart.