1. SQ3R
Survey
Question
Read
Recite
Review

2. SQ3R will help you:
• Create a study tool and strategy
• Improve your reading comprehension
• Take ownership of your learning
• Remember what you read
• Relate learning to your past, present,
&/or future

3. HOW TO SURVEY?
•Survey means you look at your text.
•Do not read the text. (You are just
scanning the exciting text features!)
•Look at the Title, Author, Heading and
Subheadings.
•Look at the images.
•Scan for vocabulary.

4. WHY SURVEY?
•Get the big picture
•Decide importance
•Know important
points

5. QUESTION
•Look at the headings. Turn these
headings into questions.
•Ask yourself: “What do I already
know about this?”
•Create your OWN questions about the
text. (Ask what,Ask who, Ask why)
•If there are questions you need to
answer-- READ THEM!

6. WHY QUESTION?
•Stay focused
•Gives purpose
•Creates interest

7. READ
• Look for answers to questions
• Talk/ Discuss
• Write in margins
• Highlight
• Read each section carefully and answer
the heading questions you created.
•Reread any passages you need to clarify.

8. WHY READ?
• To gain information and learn!
• It’s fun!
• To prepare for class discussion
• To prepare for tests (like the HSA)

9. RECITE
•Put it in your own words
•Write a summary
•Write notes (in book or on
paper)
•Create 3X5 cards
•Create a flow map
•Highlight

10. WHY RECITE?
•Retain information
•Check understanding

11. REVIEW
•Check over notes
•Re-read highlights
•Immediately after reading
•Weekly
•Before tests

12. WHY REVIEW?
•IT’S SO GOOD
TO LOOK BACK.

13. SUMMARIZE
•Use a flow chart and transition
words:
First, Next, Then, Finally,