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.
Students learn how to determine an appropriate rate of speed in various materials.
They are urged to determine their purpose before reading and then to use their flexibility to speed up and slow down accorddingly. Strategies to overcome faulty habits, especially those that haunt students, such as rereading, as dicsussed. Demonstrated is how active strategies such as proper phrasing and chunking of material can help us discover our celaing or top speeds. The tacher's manual included the student workbook. These factors may contribute heavily to procrastination and a sense of failure.