Notes/Comments/Questions (strategies reading)

NOTES:

• When reading it is important to make the distinction between leisure reading and academic reading.
• Leisure reading is reading for pleasure, for no particular purpose.
• Academic reading is reading for a purpose. Academic reading can still be pleasurable.
• Our purposes for reading are different, so our processes - our behaviors and practices - must also be different.
• Primary text- the original piece of fiction or the poem. The primary text is used when reading for basic understanding within the text.
• Secondary text- literary criticism or other cultural or historical artifacts and information. The secondary text is used to situate the text into a larger cultural context.
• Annotation- Taking notes in the margins as you read.
• Skeleton outline- A brief sketchy overview started in the margins of a text and often transferred to outline form.
• Summary- an objective restatement of the main ideas presented in a text.
• Photo collage- a visual representation of your response to the verbal text.
• Dialogue-records quotations from the text and pairs them with the reader's response in the form of a two- column list.

Comments:

The best strategy for me to understand the text is to use the skeleton outline and briefly state what is happening in the text, to better understand and remember a few details.

I think between the photo collage and dialogue to explore my response to a text, I would use the dialogue and form the column to pair quotations from the text and respond to them.