Help Yourself: How to take advantage of your learning styles by Gail Murphy Sonbuchner is an excellent book that’s designed to help an adult learner understand his or her own particular learning style. It presents methods that can be used right away to enhance a variety of learning skills including: organization and time management, memory, listening, reading comprehension, and test taking strategies.
Here are just a few examples from this book of ideas designed to help adult learners improve their
reading comprehension.
1. Read with a pen or pencil in your hand.
Write down what you are thinking and what is important while you are reading.
- Write down questions in the margins of the book (if you own it) or on a large blank piece of paper you can use as a bookmark.
- Circle or make a list of words that are in bold or italic print or write them on your bookmark. Find out what makes these words important.
- Write down your comments.
- — Do you agree or disagree with the author?
- — Is there a relationship between two things or ideas?
- Write the main point of the paragraph in the margin or on your bookmark.
2. Make a study guide while you are reading.
- A study guide will help you to understand and remember specialized vocabulary that is getting in the way of your understanding the material.
3. Make predictions.
- As you come to each new chapter or section, try to predict what it will be about.
This book is one of the many tutoring resources available free to tutor-learner teams in the Project Read office. A grant from the California Ststate Library provides funding for the purchase of these instructional materials, which are available specially for Project Read participants.
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