Hi, I'm Sara Kepros, a reading specialist here at Kirkwood. we have talked about three reading habits
to successfully read a textbook chapter let's talk about the very last one
analyzing after you've read. Once you've taken the time to really intensely
engage with that reading of that textbook chapter and you're all done
it's really good to just take five minutes to think about critically
whatever I read
and what new ideas are interpretations do I have about that concept
you can think about what questions do I still have that maybe I wanna bring to
the classroom and ask my professor
and at the end of every textbook chapter there's usually a few pages that's the
chapter review
you could actually write some notes on that page before you read the chapter
review that says hey these are the new ideas I have and these are the questions
I have and then compare it to what the author has said
or you could kinda throw it out there into the world and talk to someone at
dinner
or in the next class your in
if you have a Twitter account tweet out something big that you've learned
from that chapter or put it on Facebook or even if you have a blog you could
blog about it
but in some way just take a little bit a time to think
what I learned from reading this how my changed and how my new person
so thanks for listening and good luck with all your textbooks