The SQ4R format allowed me to critically read and analyze the text for this week, the Kucer article about the different dimensions of literacy. It helped me be more aware of what I was reading as I took some notes and used questions to focus my attention on specific parts of the text. When reading a section of the text, I chose to pose a question for myself at the heading for each paragraph. This allowed me to answer the question in my head as I was reading and write it down after the fact in my notes so that I could go back and analyze what I had just read. After reading the text, we had to focus on a statement from each section of the literacy beliefs profile we filled out before reading the article. The article was divided into the different dimensions of literacy, and the author provided information and evidence about each of these dimensions. The notes that I took using the SQ4R method allowed me to focus on one statement that the author mentioned in the text and deeper analyze it based on the evidence that was provided in the article. Using this method allowed me to collect all the information I needed to reflect on what I was reading as I did the prior assignment focusing on one statement from each section and deciding whether I still agreed with it or changed my opinion about it. This method also showed me how to read with concentration and take notes, which would benefit me. When I needed to do an assignment based on the article and have the correct information, I needed to fully answer the prompts and reflect on what I learned from the text.
Using the SQ4R method made it easy to respond to my peers in the form discussions because I had plenty of information from the text based on the notes that I had taken in the questions that I had asked myself, as this made me analyze the text critically. When reading others' responses and choosing how to respond to them, I went back to my notes and the text and could pull all the information I needed and respond to them thoroughly and with purpose. I also like how this method allowed me to reflect on my learning and what others have learned from the text. Reading a text and reflecting on it using this method made it more exciting and allowed me to gain critical thinking and understanding of the text and what the author was trying to convey. It made it easier for me to organize my thoughts and form a meaningful response that reflected my learning. Reading others' reactions and responding to them made the experience more meaningful as I learned from them about what they had learned.
In the future, I would like to continue using this format as I believe it benefited me and allowed for deeper reading comprehension. Some habits that I might need to build to help me have more ownership and become a more purposeful and creative reader of texts would be to continue to take notes as I am reading and ask myself questions that I can later go back and reflect on. If I continue these habits, I will become a more purposeful reader and engage with the text more, forcing myself to ask questions about the text, record by taking notes and recite parts of the text. I did this while responding to the original prompts for the assignment and when I was reading others' responses because it allowed me to hear what both I was writing and what others were writing. I also believe that a habit I might need to build to be prepared to engage in discussions about the text I read would be to continue reflecting on what I have read and allowing myself to think about the text and what I have learned from it. Reflection is a huge part of critically analyzing the text and thinking about what we have read and understood.
This was a very thoughtful and careful analysis of how you used SQ4R this week Amanda F. I was glad to hear that you felt this was a strategy that you wanted to try and use routinely in your academic work as this is definitely a strategy I will be asking that you use in the weeks that follow.
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