1. AcDv B61: Textbook Skills
Bakersfield College
Jessica Wojtysiak
AcDv B61: Textbook Skills

2. Let’s review Prereading: Survey the text; conduct research
Question: Ask questions about how or why something is relevant to you. Why is the instructor teaching me this?
Read: For Comprehension
Summarize: Write to show your knowledge and test yourself
Cornell Notes: Take notes to allow you to follow the steps: reduce, recite, review

3. A comprehensive, multi-step reading/learning system
SQ3r
A comprehensive, multi-step reading/learning system

4. SQ3R S Survey (Preview) Q Question (Ask Guiding Questions)
R Read (Read for Meaning)
R Recall (Test Yourself)
R Review (After you read)

5. Survey
Become familiar with the content and organization of written material before reading
Also called previewing or prereading

6. Question
Ask questions that focus your attention on what you need to learn and remember.

7. Different types of questions
Literal: Who, What, When, Where?
Inferential: Why or how?
Critical: Should? What if?

8. Sample Questions
What is this chapter/section about?
How does this information help me? Why am I reading this?
Should the author have included something else? What if the author considered this?

9. Literal V. Figurative Language
Literal Language: Uses Words as expected, according to their standard meanings
Figurative language: Not obvious or literal.
Figurative language introduces ambiguity due to its specialized use of language.

10. Why do you care?
Asking the right (literal and figurative) questions will help you improve your understanding of a text.

11. Theme
Unifying idea behind a text; the writer’s underlying point.
Thematic concepts involve people, the human condition, and other broad, philosophical ideas.

12. Figurative Language
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Alliteration
Hyperbole

13. Simile
A figurative comparison of two things using the words “like” or “as.”
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”  ― Albert Einstein

14. Metaphor
A figure of speech which makes an implicit, implied or hidden comparison between two things or objects that are poles apart from each other but have some characteristics common between them
Rhetorically stronger than a simile.

15. Metaphor example
“All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages.” Shakespeare’s “As You Like It”

16. The gift of one or more human characteristics to an animal or thing.
Personification
The gift of one or more human characteristics to an animal or thing.

17. Personification The flame of the candle danced in the wind.
The angry clouds marched across the sky.
My computer hates me.
The flowers begged for water.
The wind screamed.
The carved pumpkin smiled at me.

18. Usually used for emphasis.
Alliteration
The repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables of a phrase.
Usually used for emphasis.

19. Alliteration Examples
Krispy Kreme, Donald Duck & Mickey Mouse
She sells sea shells by the seashore.
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

20. Hyperbole
The figurative use of excessive exaggeration to make a point. Hyperbole is not meant to be taken literally.

21. Hyperbole If I don’t get a smart phone, I’ll die.
I’m so hungry I could eat a horse.
Jessica gave us a ton of homework.
My dad is going to kill me.
Summer break is never going to come.
Her new car cost a billion dollars.

22. Any Questions?
Any Questions about
these Literary Terms and their use in creating good questions for SQ3R?

23. Read for Meaning
Answer your guide questions
Highlight/annotate/take notes for important information in paragraphs

24. See if you can answer your questions without help
Recite (Recall)
Cover the text
See if you can answer your questions without help

25. To Complete these Steps, You Must…
Analyze the content you preview
Know how to develop the correct questions
Read for answers through understanding

26. SQ3R Homework
Complete the Sq3r Worksheet (pages in the handout packet)
Use Chapter 3: Understanding Paragraphs: Supporting Details and Transitions
Due in 1 week