Reading Skills

1. Reading Skills How to remember what you read

2. Highlighting • Don’t highlight everything • Less is more • Color coordinating—main points, subordinate points • Useful tool to go back and study

3. Annotating • Done in the margins of the text • Write 2-3 words beside each paragraph • Don’t skip any paragraph • Pinpoint main thought but use your own words • This helps with studying for a test • Even more helpful when being asked to write about text

4. Cornell Notetaking • Draw a line vertically down a piece of paper • On the left side of the line write the main ideas of the article leaving several spaces between them • On the right side of the line write your reaction, responses, questions, arguments, etc. beside the appropriate idea

5. Words to Remember daliance cynosure • Write important words in the margins • Highlight words in a different color than the points • These could be words to remember or to define • Especially helpful with new terms • Can be defined later bowdlerize celerity furtive

6. ?’s as you Read • Write questions as you read • Why did the author choose that word? • Where is the argument going? • What is the author hoping my response will be? • What authority does the author have? • What are the points of analysis here?

7. End of Page Summaries • At the end of each page, write a summary of that page. • At the end of a section or chapter, look back to make sure the summaries are accurate • Especially helpful when reading a novel or work of fiction