Active Reading Skills

when you first arrive at university, transitioning over to their type of learning changes the way that most first year students must structure themselves and their time many realize that the work load has increased and that they must take on the responsibility for scheduling study and leisure times effectively the transition to lecture halls and lectures that involve a high level of note taking may be new to many first years, this is usually due to the pace at which lectures are presented and the volume of material taught when first coming to university, reading is the general norm for a students learning process. it is important to learn to read effectively and independently to learn what you need to learn from the course time will need to …show more content…
novels and journal articles are in much different in structure but by having an awareness of these can help in a reader’s approach to the reading of many different types of text
Active Reading is “Thinking Intensive” active reading means “to reading with a view to understand and relate the information to other readings, ideas and themes from lectures, and to the goals of your course and your learning” as the reader continues to active read they should be checking their understanding of the text, monitoring for any difficulties, and looking for ways to correct these difficulties it’s important to note that, active reading if done properly is shown to save the reader time active reading helps eliminate the “wasteful and mindless repetition” that happens to a reader when they forget what they just