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Active reading strategies are crucial to academic success because college textbook assignments are often the basis of class lectures, discussions, and exams. The topics discussed in this chapter include reading actively, developing critical thinking skills, previewing and predicting before reading, developing guide questions, comprehension monitoring, and improving concentration. Guide questions help to establish a focus and purpose for reading while comprehension checking enables the reader to maintain and evaluate comprehension.

In addition, the six levels of thinking are discussed in terms of reading and learning: (1) knowledge; (2) comprehension; (3) application; (4) analysis; (5) synthesis; (6) evaluation.

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