10.8: Chapter 10 Activity
Now you will use this chapter to practice an active reading strategy that will help you take notes and prepare for tests.
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Page back through this chapter and look for the blue headings and subheadings. Write “who, what, where, why and how” questions for each blue heading and subheading. For example, the first heading, after the chapter outline, is “Metacognition.” A question you could create is “what is metacognition?”
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Under each question you’ve created about headings and subheadings, write notes in your own words summarizing that section of the chapter.
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On your notes page, pull out two or three key words from each answer to the heading/subheading questions and write those key words in the left margin of your notes page.
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Use those key words to create at least 10 true/false questions on a separate piece of paper.
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Take your practice quiz without looking at your original notes or this text. Set a time limit of 15 minutes to answer your 10 questions.
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Now grade yourself and conduct an honest appraisal: Were you able to answer those 10 questions correctly in the 15 minute timeframe? If you weren’t able to answer a question, go back and review that section one more time.
If you would use these connected techniques with each chapter you read in all of your textbooks, can you see how you would learn the information the first time you read? Your studying for future quizzes and tests would be minimized because you would have moved the information from the chapter into your long-term memory the first time you interacted with the material.