The Reading Program at ISU consists of several services designed to help students improve their college reading strategies. Students seeking ways to improve their comprehension of text based material will find a variety of individualized and group opportunities at the Academic Skills Center. In addition, Director of Reading, is available to help faculty and teaching assistants with ideas and workshops for improving their students ability to handle all types of text and reading assignments that require analysis of text.
Students seek help for a variety of reasons.
If you answer yes to one of the following questions then you may want to contact us immediately to begin working on improving your attempts to learn from text. Students who are attending college for the first time or returning after a long break often feel overwhelmed by the amount of reading necessary and the variety of text material required for college classes. Basically these students need a larger repertoire of strategies for reading text and learning from lectures. These skills and others are available by direct tutoring or by enrolling in Introduction to Critical Thinking. This happens sometime during every students college career but is easily remedied by one or more tutorial sessions.