Study Guide – Active Reading – Part 1

SQ3R – stands for: Survey

Question

Read

Recite

Review

To Survey you: Read the title

Read the headings

Read the sub-headings

Look at the pictures and picture captions

Read the vocabulary words

Read the first and last paragraphs

You turn the title, headings, and sub-headings into questions.

When you recite you answer the questions you made up.

When you review you try to answer the review questions at the end of the section.

The Table of Content and the Title page are found at the beginning of the book

The Index is arranged in alphabetical order

Some ways people can take notes is: Process Notes (like the water cycle)

Cause and Effect Notes (like how weather causes changes in living things)

Two Column Notes

Cornell Notes

Note Cards

The KWL chart helps you understand new information because you can compare what you know to what you are learning. You can also try to find out what you want to learn.