Reading Strategies

One thing that I have noticed about the reading strategies is that I use them all or have used them all at some point when I read.  Being in college, I believe that I have gotten to the point where I use my own favorite strategy without even thinking about it, but that is what happens to everyone at some point.  Like I said, I have used just about every strategy that I have read about, but I use the anticipation guide strategy probably most often.  Being a history major, my reading comes mostly straight from text books, and especially for studying for tests.  That being said, I always go into my reading with the mindset that I have some knowledge of what I am studying, but that I can learn from what is in the books.  Obviously I don’t always know as much as I think about what I’m studying but it helps to keep me honest when I read things that I didn’t know.  Understanding and knowing these reading strategies still helps me to this day to get a better idea of how to go into a reading assignment and to get the most out of it; to learn the most from it.