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Strategy Summary: see text below.

RAPQ

  • to help me understand what I read in my classes
  • to help me pay attention when I read
  • To help me take notes when I read so I have a study guide
Read a paragragh Read a paragraph.
Ask myself, "What are the main ideas and details?" Ask yourself, What are the main ideas and details.
Put the main ideas and details in my own words by praphrasing
  • This means that the sentence should
  1. be accurate
  2. make sense
  3. contain a complete thought, subject, and verb
  4. contain useful information, and
  5. be in my own words.
Put the main ideas and details in your own words.
Question
  • Create a question about what you read.
  • Write it on a notecard
  • You can write the answer on the back if you wish
  • Use these cards as a study guide
Develop a question that will help you study and remember the information you just read.

View an example of this strategy.

Example 1: Political Science
Example 2: Earth Science