Web Links

Textbook Study Strategies

http://www.studygs.net

This extensive website offers study guides in many areas, including Reading Skills. In this section alone you will find the following topics:

• Reading critically
• Prereading strategies
• Taking notes from a text book
• Reading/understanding essays
• Reading difficult material
• Speed & comprehension
• Marking & underlining
• SQ3R reading method

Critical Reading

http://www.salisbury.edu/students/counseling/asp.htm

This website for students at Salisbury University offers many study skills topics and self-assessments. By specifically clicking on "Reading Textbooks," students will find "Seven Critical Reading Strategies," which include

• Previewing
• Contextualizing
• Questioning to understand and remember
• Reflecting on challenges to our beliefs and values
• Outlining and summarizing
• Evaluating an argument
• Comparing and contrasting related readings

http://www.utoronto.ca/writing/critrdg.html

This practical and well-organized article, downloadable in PDF, explains critical reading, how to look for the author's ways of thinking, and some practical tips for critical reading and critical writing.

Reading Visual Aids

http://www.tv411.org/reading

This website by TV 411 offers information and interactive activities for reading and using charts and graphs, as well as other reading strategies. Use of this website requires Flash version 7.