In-Person and Online Tutoring Available

Our Writing tutors can assist you with Reading as well. Click here to go to the Writing Center website.

 

Reading Handouts:

• Active Reading Strategies
• Approaching New Words
• Finding the Main Idea
• Highlighting and Annotating
• Identifying the Topic
• Mapping Your Text
• Patterns of Organization
• Prefixes, Roots, and Suffixes
• Reading Your Textbook
• Recognizing Context Clues
• Recognizing Transitions
• SQ3R
• Summarizing Your Text
• Time Management: Self-Assessment
• Writing a Formal Summary
• Writing a Topic and Main Idea
• Writing an Informal Summary

Videos

• Annotating and Highlighting
• Annotating and Highlighting
• Concept Mapping
• Context Clues: Introduction
• Context Clues: Definition, Restatement, and Example
• Context Clues: Contrast and General Knowledge
• Formal Summary
• Informal Summary
• Main Ideas
• Organizational Patterns: Time Order and Listing
• Organizational Patterns: Definition and Classification
• Organizational Patterns: Cause/Effect and Compare/Contrast
• Organizational Patterns: Primary and Combined
• Paraphrasing
• Reading Your Textbook
• Supporting Details
• Topic
• Understanding a Syllabus