1. Academic Reading Strategies for reading in Allied Healthcare.
How can I read and understand a difficult healthcare textbook???

2. Wake up your brain: BECOME AN ACTIVE READER!
Your brain needs to be ready to think when you read!
It should actually travel through 3 thinking stages.

3. Reading to Learn Understand the Reading Process After: RECALL &
Before:
PREVIEW
During:
CONNECT
KNOWLEDGE
After:
RECALL &
REFLECT

4. What will be your plan of attack?
Something to keep in mind:
The more information you have about the material before you read, the more focus and comprehension you’ll have when you do read!

5. STAGE 1: PREVIEW BEFORE READING
Survey the textbook (Text Preview)
Survey individual chapters/sections (Textbook Study System--SQ3R)

6. GET TO KNOW YOUR TEXTBOOK
A textbook may not be the easiest of books to read, but it is the most predictable.
It’s organized with many tools for assisting you in understanding and learning.
Become familiar with your course textbook – know how it’s organized.

7. How to PREVIEW the textbook! at
all the key parts!
Title of text
Author
Publication date
Preface or Forward
Study Tools:
Table of Contents?
Appendix?
Index?
Glossary?
Charts, Graphs, Pictures?
Diagrams?
Chapters:
Introduction?
Chapter Summary?
Learning Objectives?
Headings/Subheading?
Study Questions?
Supplementary Readings?
Author’s Notes?
References?
Page Layout
Boldfaced/italicized print?
White space?
Clear print?

8. IF YOU’RE FAMILIAR WITH THE TEXTBOOK, THEN – YOU’RE READY TO START LEARNING!

9. Stage 1: Preview & Prepare BEFORE you read
Predict – what will it be about?
Get an Overview of the material
Establish a Purpose (Intent)
Activate your Schema (what do you already know?)

10. Preview the chapter! Look at the key parts of the reading material!
Chapter Title, subheading
First Paragraph (introduction)
Last Paragraph (summary)
Headings & subheadings
First Sentences
Boldface, Italics Print
Charts, graphs, tables
Questions at end?

11. NOW, TURN ON YOUR MEMORY by asking yourself questions:
How long is the chapter?
What parts of the chapter seem most important?
Do I need to read everything with equal care?
Can I skip some sections?

12. Questions prepare your brain
What is the topic of the chapter?
What does the title suggest?
What do the subheadings, italics, and
visuals suggest?
What do I already know?
Is this a new topic?
Is it related to something I have already learned?
What is my purpose for reading?
What will I need to know when I finish?
How is the material organized?
What is the general outline or framework of the material?

16. Stage 2 – DURING READING Connect Knowledge
Actively read!
Seek - answers to your questions
Picture – visualize; create a picture in your mind.
Relate – connect with ideas you already know.
Monitor – become aware of when you stop understanding what you are reading and why
Correct – get back to concentrating and
understanding

17. Stage 2: During Organize the Information:
Annotate (mark the textbook, highlight, make margin notes – be selective)
Use Post-it Notes
Make Concept Cards (notecards)
Create Maps/Charts
Take Cornell Notes
take notes

19. MAPPING: USING VISUAL NOTETAKING
PARIETAL BONES
PARIETAL BONES
CRANIAL BONES
FRONTAL BONES
OCCITPITAL BONE
ETHMOID BONE
SPHENOID BONE
TEMPORAL BONES
Parietal Bones

22. Stage 3 – AFTER READING Recall – Keep Thinking!
Review–Recap what you learned
Cover over answers to Cornell Notes and check recall of material
Draw map and fill in information
Read annotation and post it notes aloud
Reflect and relate: think of big questions involving causes & effects, comparing & contrasting, applying new ideas

23. Use a study reading strategy: SQ3R
SQ3R follows the reading process
Survey - preview
Question – turn the headings into questions.
Read – one section at a time
Recite – take notes!
Review – go over your notes, think about the information.

24. Summary Points:
1. THERE IS A THINKING PROCESS INVOLVED WITH READING – BEFORE, DURING AND AFTER
EFFICIENT READERS THINK ABOUT & EVALUATE THE SIGNIFICANCE OF WHAT THEY HAVE READ.
CONNECT NEW IDEAS TO WHAT THEY ALREADY KNOW.
ARE AWARE THAT THE MORE ideas or concepts
THEY KNOW, THE EASIER IT IS TO READ and
LEARN!

25. Preview a Healthcare textbook
Let’s Try!
Preview a Healthcare textbook

26. At Home: 1. Review your notes 2. Review the PowerPoint
3. Take the Study Skills Assessment
4. Write a Journal Entry
5. Make Concept Cards for medical terminology
2. Write in your journal.