Text Book Reading Strategies
Reading to Comprehend and Learn
Using a Reading Method
Why use a reading method?
It directs your focus
Efficient and Effective
It saves time
It gets what you want in the
minimum time
It works!!
Reading Using the
PSQ5R Method
PSQ5R
A formula that stands for the
basic steps in learning from
reading in an efficient
manner.
PSQ5R
P stands for Purpose
S for Survey
Q for Question
5 Rs for Read Selectively,
Recite, Reduce-record,
Reflect, and Review.
PSQ5R - Step 1
Purpose
Ask why are you reading this
article or chapter.
Ask what do you want to get out
of it?
Step one - Establishing your
purpose
Purpose – Step One
Theme or Main Idea
Main Facts or Figures
Evidence
Arguments
Examples
Relations
Methods, Directions. . . .
Survey or Skim – Step Two
Why Survey or Skim before reading?
Gives an overview of the piece
Helps identify focus
What is the central theme?
Main idea(s), problems and questions
being discussed?
What is the author’s perceptive
How does the author treat the focus
Survey/Skim – Step Two
Should take no more than a minute or
two
Scan
titles, subtitles, headings,
graphs, charts, pictures
lead paragraphs, summaries, conclusions
Question – Step 3
Compose questions that you
will work toward answering
Ask what you already know
about the subject matter --