30 Amazing Reading and Learning Strategies for College Students
Edition: 2
Copyright: 2021
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The purpose of this book is to introduce students to reading and learning strategies effective in helping students achieve their goals. What makes this book so amazing is that while students are acquiring a repertoire of reading and learning strategies, they also strengthen their reading comprehension abilities.
30 Amazing Reading and Learning Strategies for College Students:
- Is useful for individuals or group;
- Is useful for students in all majors;
- Suggests strategies to use with courses;
- Keeps students actively involved;
- Includes instructor comments;
- Provides directions for Get Ready for the Activity;
- Provides directions for the Activity;
- Has Home Learning tips;
- Has “Learning Hint” (extension of strategy);
- Includes a “GPS”—“Getting the Perfect Strategy,” which matches the assignment with a strategy;
- Includes a “Crosswalk” to match a course with a strategy;
- Has a “finished product” that can be graded;
- Great for online learning.
- All Modalities
- Alternate Sources
- Annotation
- Application Apps
- Back Pack
- Beating the Nods
- Bold to Bold
- Book of Mistakes
- Cover it Up, Then Read
- Crossword Puzzle
- Dictionary, Check It
- Five-Minute Summary with Laptop
- Friend to Friend
- How to Deal with Professors
- Legal Cheat Sheet
- Lock Screen
- Make a Test
- My To-Do List
- Once Upon a Time
- Pace Reading
- Powerful Power Points
- Rap
- Say It, Then Play It
- Sketch Book Journal
- SQ3R Modified for College
- Summertime Smarts
- 20 Most Important Things
- Take-Apart Notebook
- Teach It
- Visual Text Connection
Bonus Chapter – Strategies Specific to Mathematics and English
Mathematics
- Back-Up System Modified for Math
- Bank Deposits
- Camera Roll
- Validity Web
English
- Check the Facts
- Patterns of Organization
- Transitions and Propositions
- Writing Around the Table
Patsy Self Trand, Ph.D. is a retired faculty member of Florida International University and the former administrator of the FIU Reading and Learning Lab. At FIU Dr. Trand taught undergraduate, honors, and graduate courses in Reading and Language Arts. Dr. Trand is currently an adjunct professor at the University of Miami for the School of Education. She is committed to passing on her wealth of knowledge and experiences to help high school and college students reach their academic goals. She has authored many articles, has presented at many national and international conferences, and has authored eight college level textbooks.
Kay Lopate, Ph.D. is Professor Emerita from the University of Miami where she co-founded the Reading and Study Skills Center and taught for the School of Education. Her special interests are preparing premed students for medical school and helping undergraduates acquire the advanced reading abilities to succeed with their college level textbooks and classes. She has co-authored eight college reading and learning strategy textbooks with Dr. Patsy Trand.