Identify two reading goals, one short-term and one long-term.
• Long-term reading goal: to make sure I understand the material before moving on to the next. • Short-term reading goal: to make sure I do all reading assignments for this class in a timely matter.
Write a 100- to 150-word response to each of the following questions:
• How do you currently approach the weekly readings in the course?
I currently do my readings on a Thursday of a school week. I find it very hard to concentrate on what I am reading because there are so many distractions. We have five boys, three are in school and two aren’t. So it is hard to find any alone time to do homework. Then I end up having the television on or my phone goes off so I have to check it. Then the baby cries so I have to take care of him. So when I try to read and take notes my notes normally don’t make any sense so I have to reread the material normally two or three times for me to understand it and take better notes so I can go to the next reading assignment. It is very overwhelming to try to get my reading assignments done.
• How might you incorporate three of the suggestions covered this week into your study time?
I think the three that stood out the most was previewing, text marking, and reviewing. With previewing I could skim over the chapter before I print the chapter out to help me familiarize myself with the material before I read it. Text marking is one I want to start doing. After printing out the text book I could highlight what I feel is important that way when I take notes its right there for me to find. Reviewing is after I take the notes I will review the chapter over again to make sure I understand everything in the reading material and to make sure I have not left anything out of my notes that would
