Mr. Smith talks to our students about reading techniques on a regular basis.  We have only a classroom set of textbooks for Chemistry I, so we don’t request required reading of them very often.  However, we do ask them to preview a chapter after an exam, or when there is time after laboratories.    When we ask students to read the textbook, we give them specific techniques with which to preview the text:

1) Look at the pictures and figures first.

2) Read any boldface vocabulary words.

3) Skim for key phrases/vocabulary.

4) Read for content.

We give them a specific reading technique, because reading a science text is not as straightforward or easy, as reading for leisure is.

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