Online Resources

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Reading Strategies

• Strategies 01: Mumble, Read, and Listen
• Strategies 02: Skimming and Key Words
• Strategies 03: Marginal Notes and Mapping
• Strategies 04: Inductive/Deductive Reading and Annotating a Text
• Strategies 05: Reading/Rereading and Rumination
• Strategies 06: Reflection Points and Talking Through a Text
• Strategies 07: Hearing or Visualizing a Text
• Strategies 08: Start at the End and Summarize
• Strategies 09: Reading on a Walk and Moving When You Read
• Strategies 10: Confidence & Focus
• Strategies 11: A Special Place, A Journal, and Reading Rewards

 

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Reading Improvement

• SQ3R: Survey, Question, Read, Recite, Review
• Reading Incentives

 

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Writing Strategies

• Writing Strategy: Getting Started
  
• Writing Strategy: Redundant Acronyms
• Writing Strategy: Apostrophes
• Writing Strategy: Definite/Indefinite Articles
• Writing Strategy: Audience and Purpose
• Writing Strategy: Comma Splices
• Writing Strategy: Sentence Fragments
• Writing Strategy: Homonyms (Mispelled and Misused Words)
• Writing Strategy: Idioms
• Writing Strategy: Irregular Verbs
• Writing Strategy: MLA Format
• Writing Strategy: Modifiers
• Writing Strategy: Paragraphs
• Writing Strategy: Parts of Speech
• Writing Strategy: Passive and Active Voice
• Writing Strategy: Thesis Statement
• Writing Strategy: Transitions
• Writing Strategy: Wordiness
• Writing Strategy: Writing Process

 

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Contact

Lorena Knight
English and Reading Advocate
Room: JH-308
Phone: (210) 486-4251
Email: lknight@alamo.edu