1	Reading for Success: SQ3R Tomball College Presents Successful Students: Essential Skills
2	Why Learn a Reading System? On average college students spend 2 hours studying for each classroom hour
3	Why Learn a Reading System? Putting off reading textbook assignments? Do textbook assignments take more time? Are textbook assignments harder to understand?
4	Conclusion You should be getting better at studying your textbooks If not, then you need a better system
5	Why SQ3R? Helps military personnel read faster Helps thousands of students achieve goals
6	Why Does SQ3R Work?
7	Memory Quiz Remember this list of five items Can you repeat list?
8	Outcome Second list easier to remember because items are interconnected
9	SQ3R Survey Question Read Recite/Write Review
10	S Stands for SURVEY Helps: Create context for learning Determine chapter’s purpose Identify main ideas
11	S Stands for SURVEY Process:
12	Q Stands for QUESTION Helps your mind: Engage Concentrate
13	Q Stands for QUESTION Process: Divide sheet of paper in half lengthwise On left half, write questions as survey
14	Q stands for QUESTION Repeat questioning process Each section of chapter Questions become HOOKS
15	Questions to Help You Start What: Is this section about? Question does this section answer? Questions do I have?
16	R1 Stands for READ Process: Read one section at a time Look for answer to question Separate out “trivia”
17	R1 Stands for READ Helps You Concentrate
18	R2 Stands for RECITE/WRITE Process: On corresponding right side of worksheet write: Key phrase stating major point of section Key phrase answering question you posed
19	R2 Stands for RECITE/WRITE Helps you: Fix material in your mind Identify material you need to read again
20	R3 Stands for REVIEW Process: Cover key phrases (right side)
21	R3 Stands for REVIEW Helps you: Identify sections you have mastered
22	Common Questions Why should I survey an assigned chapter before I read it? To introduce yourself to what you are about to read To provide context for learning To create an order and determine a purpose
23	Common Questions How should I survey a chapter? Glance through headings and subheadings Skim introductory & summary paragraphs Establish a context and order to the material
24	Common Questions Why should I develop questions before I read a chapter? Helps mind engage & concentrate Questions become “hooks” on which to hang material Information processes more deeply when searching for & answering questions
25	Common Questions How should I develop questions for the chapter as a whole & each subsection? Ask yourself what chapter is about & what questions chapter might answer Write questions on left side of paper Repeat with each subsection of chapter
26	Common Questions How will my actual reading change? Read paragraph or section to answer question posed by heading Use questions to separate out “trivia” that is not important Look for answers to your questions
27	Common Questions Why should I recite & write after each section of a chapter? If you can recall & recite the important points, then you have mastered that part of material Fixes material in your mind
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31	Conclusion This method works Try it Resources include instructors, tutors, & other services in Learning Center