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PrePALS Reading

Self-guided reading course for students wanting additional support as they prepare to take any course requiring college-level reading.

Textbook Strategies

Directions: Watch the following videos to learn about important reading strategies following instructions as you watch and engage.

Previewing a Text

Questioning

Practice Surveying a Textbook

Fill in the THIEVES chart as you watch and view the video and Slide. Practice using surveying and previewing strategies with textbooks. (Use the blank T-H-I-E-V-E-S handout and fill in the activities that are represented by each letter.) 

Assignment

Textbook Scavenger Hunt

Make a comparison of 2 Textbooks (Identify text features within two textbooks and make comparisons)

Preview a Textbook

Preview a textbook chapter using T-H-I-E-V-E-S

Preview an on-line textbook to make comparisons (OER/Openstax)

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