Research Guides: Student Resources: Reading Strategies

Handouts

Active Reading
This handout provides tips for actively engaging with reading material, offering tips such as highlighting, writing in the margins, and indicating connections.
An Invitation to Join the Conversation
This exercise allows a writer to practice engaging with a text to create meaning from it.
How to Read Like a Writer
This reading helps a reader better engage with text as the writer would, including things to look for: ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, and conventions.
On Text Complexity
An important aspect of being able to read complex text is to have effective literacy skills. This handout outlines how to break codes of written text, and shows how to critically analyze what has been read.
Reading an Analysis
This handout breaks down how to interpret an analysis using an illustrative graph to show how this can be done.
Reading & Organizing Reflections
This handout breaks down how to interpret reelections using an illustrative graph.
Reading Informative Writing
This handout breaks down how to interpret informative text using an illustrative graph.
From Research to Writing
This handout offers questions writers should ask themselves shortly after researching, and prior to writing. The aspects a writer should be aware of include audience, topic, and purpose.
4 Strategies for Conventions
This handout offers multiple strategies for understanding conventions through an in-class exercise.

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