Do you find it difficult to remember what you've read? Or do you find yourself "zoning out" while reading? Try listening to an audio book while you read and visualize, and you might find that you remember more and/or can pay attention better!
Listen to the audio of the book while you read along and take notes! Although this article emphasizes the benefit of audio books for students who have learning differences, studies find that most people benefit from multiple means of representation when trying to encode (learn) new information.
Online resources like Audible.com, iTunes, audiobooks.com, and your public or school library have online audio books or audio books on CDs (or even cassette tapes?!) that you can check out, so you can easily try this strategy to see if it works for you!
Other active reading strategies you can use while listening to an audio book (or not), to better remember what you've read, include:
- End-of-chapter summaries
- Sticky Note summaries
- 3-bullet summaries
- SWBS summaries
- Stop and paraphrase at the end of each page (Stop, Think, Paraphrase)
- Visualizing
- Connecting
- Margin Notes
I'll post more about these other active reading strategies later. Happy reading (and/or listening!)
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