1. Textbook Reading
The Goal of the SQ4R is to comprehend information as you work through the chapter so that you will not need to keep rereading the chapter to learn the information.
Source: Wong, Linda, Essential Study Skills 3rd edition 2000

2. Sq4R Textbook Reading Sys.
Survey the Chapter
Write Questions
Read Carefully
Record Information
Recite
Review

3. Sq4R Textbook Reading Sys.

4. Sq4R Textbook Reading Sys.
Survey the Chapter
Surveying is a warm-up activity to increase your interest, help you set goals for study sessions, and to lay a foundation for comprehending the chapter

5. Sq4R Textbook Reading Sys.
Survey the Chapter
Introductory Material
Take a moment to relate the chapter title to the information you already know about the topic

6. Sq4R Textbook Reading Sys.
Survey the Chapter
Chapter Headings
Glance over the headings of the chapter to have a better idea of the “skeleton” structure of the chapter

7. Sq4R Textbook Reading Sys.
Survey the Chapter
Visual Aids and Marginal Notes
Use the graphic layout of the chapter to explore what it is trying to cover

8. Sq4R Textbook Reading Sys.
Survey the Chapter
Terminology
Look for but don’t stop to read the terminology in the chapter
Ask yourself if you know something about the words
This is not time to study the words! You will do that when you start reading the chapter

9. Sq4R Textbook Reading Sys.
Survey the Chapter
End-of-Chapter info
Read the chapter summary or review questions to give you a better idea of the most important concepts found in the chapter
Note: Not all information is in the summary. It is not a substitution for reading the chapter. Even if you understand it.

10. Sq4R Textbook Reading Sys.
Write Questions
Which, when, what, why, where, how, who

11. Sq4R Textbook Reading Sys.
Write Questions
Which, when, what, why, where, how, who

12. Sq4R Textbook Reading Sys.
Write Questions
Which, when, what, why, where, how, who

13. Sq4R Textbook Reading Sys.
Write Questions
Which, when, what, why, where, how, who

14. Sq4R Textbook Reading Sys.
Write Questions
Which when what why where how who
Tailor your strategies to improve your comprehension from the following...

15. Sq4R Textbook Reading Sys.
Write Questions
Which when what why where how who
Full chapter questions in the book
Turn headings into questions. Write that question in the book so that it will focus your attention and provides you with a way to think of the reading when you are reading it

16. Sq4R Textbook Reading Sys.
Write Questions
Which when what why where how who
Full chapter questions on paper
It can prepare me for future test
Gives me a purpose for read
Helps me draw in my knowledge of the subject
After you read
How can question writing help me?
Before you read

17. Sq4R Textbook Reading Sys.
Write Questions
Which when what why where how who
Partial Chapter questions in the book or on paper
Do the same at the last slide
but go on section at a time

18. Sq4R Textbook Reading Sys.
Write Questions
Which when what why where how who
Alternating Writing of questions and Reading
It can prepare me for future test
Gives me a purpose for read
Helps me draw in my knowledge of the subject
After you read
How can question writing help me?
Before you read

19. Sq4R Textbook Reading Sys.
Read Carefully
Don’t go on Auto Pilot
adjust your reading speed to the difficulty of the reading
Take time after each paragraph to see if you understood what it was saying

20. Sq4R Textbook Reading Sys.
Recite
Once you have recorded the information recite the information using complete sentences.

21. Sq4R Textbook Reading Sys.
Review -can be done in many ways
Answer the question at the end of the chapter
Answer the questions you wrote for yourself
Study the recorded information you took
Write a summary of the chapter

22. Sq4R Textbook Reading Sys.
Reviewing helps by
Summarizing what you just learned
Puts the 12 Memory principles in motion
Keeps the information fresh in your mind
Builds confidence by showing yourself you can be prepared and use your time efficiently

23. 12 memory principles Selectivity Association Visualization Effort
Concentration
Recitation
Interest
Big and little pictures
Feedback
Organization
Time on task
Ongoing review
Wong, Linda Essential Study Skills 3rd edition 2000

24. Sq4R Textbook Reading Sys.
Question
Survey
Read
Recite
Review
Record

25. Comprehension Strategies
Read out loud
Visualize
Substitute words
Find the Topic Sentence
Discover the Organizational pattern

26. Comprehension Strategies
Read out loud
Active reading can be enhanced by reading the information out load

27. Comprehension Strategies
Visualize
Make “movie in your mind” of what you are reading
Try reading a paragraph slowly and visual images as you read

28. Comprehension Strategies
Substitute words
Use the glossary, Thesaurus, dictionary or electronic speller for unfamiliar words
Underline the word and write the word you understand at means the same thing above it

29. Comprehension Strategies
Find the Topic Sentence
Ask yourself in 1, 2, or 3 words ‘what is the paragraph about’
Those words might appear many times in the paragraph

30. Comprehension Strategies
Find the Topic Sentence
Then find the sentence that makes more sense as a topic sentence
Ask your self does everything else in the paragraph relate to this one idea in at sentence

31. Comprehension Strategies
Find the Topic Sentence
Topic Sentence
Main Idea
detail
detail
detail
detail

32. Comprehension Strategies
Find the Topic Sentence
Implied main Idea
The assumption author makes to relay an idea
Ask yourself what is the author saying
Paraphrase in your own words what ideas you get from the paragraph

33. Comprehension Strategies
Discover the organizational pattern
Chronological Pattern
Comparison or contrast
Definition
Examples
Cause/effect

34. Comprehension Strategies
Discover the organizational pattern
Chronological Pattern
Time Line
When, then, before, next, after, first, second, finally

35. Comprehension Strategies
Discover the organizational pattern
Comparison or contrast
Features
A B
Like: also, similarly likewise Unlike:but, in contrast

36. Comprehension Strategies
Discover the organizational pattern
Definition
Means, is, can be considered is defined as

37. Comprehension Strategies
Discover the organizational pattern
Examples
For example, another example, and illustration of this

38. Comprehension Strategies
Discover the organizational pattern
Cause/effect
Because, since, so, Therefore, caused by, result in