reflection

I have learned many study skills this year that help me every week with my homework. Learning how to highlight just enough words helps to get the main ideas from the reads and be able to look back and study them with out re-reading the whole chapter what whatever it is im reading. Also SQ3R is a great strategy to know to help with all text book readings. Even if you have to change the SQ3R around a little it is still a good strategy to know. Annoting helps more in textbook reading than reading articles because article don't have much room to write and most of them don't even have majoir headings for new topics. I have found that associating ideas really helps too. It gives you a bigger picture of the reading and makes it more understandable to you if you can relate to it. Also reading headlines or studying graphics really helps because sometimes it give more info then the reading does or it just makes it more clear for you to understand. All these plus more have been very helpful strategies.

For this week i will be using some of these strategies to help me with me studies. For my reading class I will use highlighting, associating ideas and reciting to help me understand the articles in the newsweek magazine. For my child development class i will use the SQ3R strategy to help read a chapter in the book. From doing the content area project on my child development class i found that thats strategy really does help when reading chapters from the book. For my english class i have to write an essay so i need to do research and it helped yesterday in class when we talked about which websites you can trust and be sure to watch for that. Also some articles in the newsweek magazine will help me with my essay and give me more sources which I think is really cool. I believe everyone should take one reading class so that they can learn all these reading strategies because I believe it would help so many people do better in school.