SQ3R stands for Survey, Question, Read, Recite, Review. It gives a structure to use when assessing texts. There are five stages to the strategy:
1. Survey – Look through the chapter title, introduction and headings/stand-out text. This gives an overview of the text.
2. Question – Turn the chapter title into a question that you will then be able to answer by reading the text.
3. Read – Read the chapter to answer the questions posed in stage 2. You may wish to make notes.
4. Recite – try to answer the questions from memory without referring to the text or your notes.
5. Review – Review the text by re-reading sections or looking over notes you have made.
Discuss the strategy with students and explain its purpose – to give more meaning and purpose to academic reading.
Ask students to read a text related to the session’s learning applying SQ3R. (You may wish to have two groups reading two different texts to discuss/compare the texts at the end of the task).
Put students in pairs/small groups to talk about the meaning of the text.
Have a plenary to discuss their findings.
If you use more than one text you may wish to have articles that contradict each other to generate discussion/debate.
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With large groups, you can either run this as a solo activity and then put students into groups to discuss/ adjust their decisions or you could have small-group discussions which contribute to a whole-group activity of generating one list. You could use more than one text about one subject and each group contributes to form a jigsaw of an overall picture of the subject.
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Students can appraise a text and able to discuss it in their studies.
You can use the texts read as the basis for some writing in class.
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This is also in The BIMM Study Skills Guide
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