 COLLEGE
READING
- College level reading material (often much higher than high
school)
- Amount of reading expected in college classes
- Levels of reading
- Skimming
- Careful reading
- Intensive reading
- Reading tactics in the content areas
- Science: make diagrams, use flash cards
- Literature: summarize plots, themes, conflicts, characters
- Social sciences: identify theories, principles
- Math: do practice questions as you read
- Using information mapping charts and graphic organizers
- SQ3R Study Method for
reading and note-taking from a textbook (SQ3R stands for:
Survey, Question, Read, Recite, Review)
- Vocabulary development
See Research to practice Briefs
on Reading
Suggested Activities
- Have students use their Windows Tools feature to analyze
the reading level of sample textbooks.
- Bring in typical college textbooks for students to preview.
- Use excerpts from college texts as practice readings; ask
students to organize their study time to see if they can
accomplish the same amount of reading they would have to
do in college.
- Complete the SQ3R method several times on sample chapters,
and give learners mock tests to see how well they would perform
on a test having used this study method.
- Have students develop lists of common vocabulary words found
in college texts.
Lesson Plans
Questioning Media Messages 
Context Clues
Web Resources
Independent Media Center
http://indymedia.org/
"Indymedia is a collective of independent media organizations and hundreds
of journalists offering grassroots, non-corporate coverage. Indymedia is a democratic
media outlet for the creation of radical, accurate, and passionate tellings of
truth."
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