Find links to handbooks, pocketbooks, ThinkSheets, video or PPT demonstrations, and other useful information.
Materials
Handbooks
Two handbooks help you read your academic texts strategically and metacognitively.
1. Learn More and Read Faster, 4th edition, has 31 academic reading strategies and 10 speeding-up drills.
2. Surviving College Reading, 2nd edition, has 16 of the same strategies and 6 speeding-up drills.
Pocketbooks
Two pocketbooks briefly explain the strategies, one page per strategy.
1. A Brief Guide to Academic Reading for College, 3rd ed. explains 27 strategies.
2. A Brief Guide to College Reading, International ed. explains 11 strategies.
Thinksheets
ThinkSheets guide you through the steps of the strategy until you can use and adapt them on your own.
Demonstrations
View videos that show college students doing each strategy.
Useful Information
“What Is Reading?”
“Word Maps” two maps with samples
“Results” effectiveness of the academic reading courses
“What People Say” endorsements of Isakson Literacy programs
Book Lists