Each rule is followed by an example question. Helps students develop the ability to pinpoint the qustions being asked. During the interactive segment, students apply all four rules to questons on their worksheet. These questions are taken from real exams in various disciplines. The interactive segment allows students viewing the tape independently in a laba to work at their own pace.
Students unravel the textbook maze.
Example of a college biology chapter is used to model prereading and surevying techniques. Once the students are familiar with the key concepts, she deomontrates how she would underline and mark a subsection of the text. After discussing several review techniques, she annotates the underlines information in the margin. Student who organize their textbook reading will discover the plesure that comes from more frequent and sudden insights into the author's words. Ms. Thayer demonstrated some of the key ideas involved in increasing reading efficieny.