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“Nothing is worth reading that does not require an alert mind.”
Charles Dudley Warner, American editor and author

3 READING METHODOLOGY

Reading Reading

Introducing Molly In her 1960 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
introduces us to a six-year-old girl nicknamed Scout, who loves to read. The
Reading novel is set in a 1930s Southern town, hard
Methodology hit by the Depression. Scout’s father, a
lawyer named Atticus Finch, had taught her
What is a to read before she went to school. Instead
Methodology? of being pleased, her teacher is dismayed
because Scout is so far ahead of the other
Examining the children. The teacher forbids Scout to read
Reading Methodology in school—and Scout is heartbroken. Her
father promises Scout that she can read all
Discussion of she wants at home.
Methodology Steps
Can you relate to this story? Some of you may have spent long summer days
Using a Reading Log reading Harry Potter books, eager for the next one to come out. On the other
hand, some of you may not read unless required to do so for classes, or feel that
Note-Taking you simply do not like to or are not good at reading. You may read more, though,
and Reading and more often than you realize. Do you really read less than your parents or
Comprehension grandparents or do you just read differently? Think of all the things you have
read in the past week: E-mail from friends or someone’s personal blog? An
LVP: A Life Vision online news site or an article in a local newspaper? A magazine that focuses on
Reading a favorite hobby? A textbook, an assignment handout, or a classmate’s paper as
a peer reviewer? The latest installment of a graphic novel?
Activity 3.1
However, like so many other things we do these days, we all tend to read too
Using a Reading Log quickly to do it effectively. We skim written communication and half-listen to
conversations. However, to become a strong and successful learner, you need to
Activity 3.2 both read and listen well. This chapter will build on the reading skills you already
have, strengthening them so that you can be a confident and successful reader.
Practicing the Reading
Methodology The goal of this chapter is to help you learn how to improve your reading and
comprehension skills. We will also look at the connection between reading and
Activity 3.3 writing, two activities that form the foundation of your college education. In a
later chapter, Chapter 11, we will explore how professionals write in specific
Analyzing a Literary disciplines. We will also explain how understanding specific forms of writing
Text will strengthen your reading and writing in your discipline.

GLOSSARY methodology Reading Methodology reading log syntax semantics

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