SQ3R Reading Method
Survey! Question! Read! Recite!
Review!
Before you read, Survey
the chapter:
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- The title, headings, and subheadings
- Captions under pictures, charts, graphs or
maps
- Review questions or teacher-made study
guides
- Introductory and concluding paragraphs
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Question
while you are surveying:
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- 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
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When
you begin to
Read:
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- 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
- 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
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Recite
after you've read a section:
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- 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
- Use the method of recitation which best
suits your particular learning style but remember, the more senses you use
the more likely you are to remember what you read - i.e.,
TRIPLE STRENGTH LEARNING: Seeing, saying,
hearing-
QUADRUPLE STRENGTH LEARNING: Seeing, saying, hearing and writing.
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Review:
an ongoing process.
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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 reciting, write questions for the notes you have taken in the left hand margins of your notebook.
Day Two
- 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.
- Make "flash cards" for those
questions which give you difficulty.
- Develop mnemonic devices for material which
need to be memorized.
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.
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From the Table of Contents, make a Study Sheet/ Spatial Map.
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Recite the information orally and in your own words as you put the Study
Sheet/Map together.
Now that you have consolidated all the
information you need for that chapter, periodically review the Sheet/Map so
that at test time you will not have to cram.
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