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Textbook Reading

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Choose the response that most closely matches your feeling about the statement:

SD - Strongly Disagree
D - Disagree
A - Agree
SA - Strongly Agree)

		SD	D	A	SA
1.	I use a specific method to study textbook material.
2.	I'm aware of the summaries at the end of sections of chapters in my textbooks, and use them as study tools.
3.	When I don't understand my textbook, I get a less difficult book or a book written in a different way.
4.	I read textbooks at a different speed than I read fiction and light magazine articles.
5.	I know what a glossary is and how to use it.
6.	I preview my textbooks early in the course, by skimming the table of contents and looking over the rest of the book.
7.	I use the index as a review of the textbook's content before tests.
8.	I know how to identify and use textbook features, such as italics, headings, subheadings, pictures, charts and graphs, to better understand the subject.
9.	I preview a chapter before I begin to read it.
10.	When studying I read a long chapter by summarizing each part of it as I go along.
11.	I read the preface, or foreword to my textbooks.
12.	I read textbook chapters over several times as a way of learning the material.
13.	I use a system of marking and underlining important information in my textbook chapters.
14.	I outline and/or make notes on sections of the chapter that contain facts and ideas that I want to remember.
15.	I think I understand what I read as well as most other students.
16.	When I read my textbook I don't understand a lot of the terminology and vocabulary that are used.
17.	I make notes and write questions in the margins of my textbook pages as a way to emphasize important ideas and to help myself remember what I've read.

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