Transitional Studies

Reading-Related Technology

You Remember Approximately                  

10% of what you read

20% of what do you hear

30% of what you see

50% of what you hear and see together

70% of what you think and say out loud

90% of what you do

Here are strategies that work:

Make reading social. 

Many websites (listed below) support reading.  

Next time you have to read something you don’t want to, print out a log of “what I noticed” and “what I thought when I read the text."  This is similar to annotating the text, but a preferred option if you do not want to mark your textbook.  If you can access an electronic version of the reading, annotate it (using the free software link below). 

Listen to what students at Chabot Community College had to say about their reading assignments.