Critical Reading Strategies*
- Annotating. One of the first strategies to begin with is annotating a text. …
- Contextualizing. …
- Reflecting on challenges to your beliefs and values. …
- Paraphrasing. …
- Outlining. …
- Summarizing. …
- Exploring the figurative language. …
- Looking for patterns of opposition.
Annotating a text involves several strategies: underlining the most crucial pieces of information, writing notes to yourself in the margins, and identifying important sections, words, and/or. criteria. Annotating enables you to go back and quickly review what you have read.
