Shaffer's Study Skills

Reading Skills
Have you ever read an assignment and when you were finished you couldn't remember what you just read? If you answered yes, then you need to learn some basic reading skills.

The following web sites will help provide you with reading skills.

Reading Strategies for Expository Texts is an excellent site for reading strategies to use before you read, while you are reading and after you have read.

Reading Skills is an excellent site to use!

A Strategy for Reading Textbooks what a fabulous site with tons of great information. Helpful hint*** When you select a topic link on this site, it does not open another page. You have to scroll down and the desire information will be there.

Reading Method: SQ3R survey, question, read, recite and review...

The following documents are a sample of what I use to teach reading skills:

Reading Study Skills document covers almost everything we cover in class: pre-reading, reading comprehension, highlighting, note taking and more...

KWL reading activity an old tried and true method for reading comprehension.