1.3 Strategies During Reading

Summarize and Make Notes

Summarize and make notes about what you are reading. You do not need to rewrite the book! You want to make point form ideas or a short summary so you can remember what happened in a unit or chapter.

There are many ways to do this. Experiment with the following:

If it is a book you own, you can write in the margins of the book and highlight important ideas.

Use sticky notes. As you read something important, stick a sticky note on that page and jot notes down about what you found.

Have a notebook that you take notes down in as you go.

Record yourself! As you read something of importance, use any kind of recording system and record the snippets of important details as you go.