Ready, Go, Done is the New Ready, Set, Go.

Welcome Back everyone. I hope you all had a great Spring Break.
Well the break is over and now we are back to the grind. The grind of homework assiangments and books we have to read.
WELL I AM HERE TO HELP...with the reading part.
That's right, this week's topic is READING strategies.

READY, GO, DONE.
The emphasis on this strategy is on creating study aids that merge material covered in class with the assigned readings. This really helps if you are in a lecture dependent class. People who are Multi-modal (specialize in more than one type of learning) will find this strategy very helpful.

Here is How i Did it.
My Religion 206 class has a lot of readings to complete and my Human Sexuality class is heavily lecture-focused. I used this strategy because I am multi modular and wanted to break down my reading in a way that would be easy for me. I followed these steps:

Ready- First I surveyed the chapter by reading the introduction, objectives, summary, list of terms and all of the headings/subheadings in my human sexuality class.
For my Religion class, the book I had to read is more of a book than a text book so I had to do it a little differently. I read the titles of the sections I had to read and quickly scanned the pages for italics
- This shouldn't take to long. It is helpful because you are making yourself familiar with the material you have to read before you have to read it.

Go- Now, I read the chapter. As I did, I tried to relate what I was reading with whatever the professors had been talking about or what I he/she will be talking about in the near future. USE THE SYLLABUS to see what your future classes will be talking about because I did and it helped alot. Then I highlighted sections I thought to be important.

Done- I created a study guide of the things I read so I could easily remember the things I had gone over. I used my highlighted sections to narrow down what I had to put on my study guide. I made a few questions about the sections I read. There wasn't too much reading due so my study guide was somewhat simple.

I thought this really helped get the information I needed in a way that worked for me. It may work for you too so try it out!!