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Strategy Summary:  See text below.

SCROL

  • To help improve me reading from textbooks
  • To help me use my text headings when reading

Survey.

  • Look at the text headings/subheadings to find out what will be covered in the chapter.
Survey the headings and subheadings.

Connect.

  • Look at how the chapter headings relate to each other.
  • Write down key words to show how the sections flow.
Connect how the chapters relate.

Read.

  • Read the information under each heading.
  • Pay attention to words/pharases that express important information about the heading.
Read over the material.

Outline.

  • Write down the main ideas and supporting details in outline form without looking at the text.
Outline the material

Look.

  • Look back at each heading and information under the heading.
  • Make sure that your outline is correct and contains the important information.
Look back:  Compare your outline to the headings in the book.

View an example of this strategy.

Example 1: Earth Science
Example 2: Political Science