Sam's Ants R Quick

This past week during spring break travels i used the reading strategy Sam's Ants R Quick in my political science 121 class as well as my history 102 class. For both of these classes a lot of reading is required by the professors. There is no grade for this but doing the readings really help to get a good grasp of the information being taught in the course. Sam's Ants R Quick is a reading strategy that would be good for visual and kinesthetic learners, because not only do you brief the information before reading it, it also requires you to write down key terms and create test questions.

For my political science class using this strategy, the first thing i did was the survey. This part of the strategy requires me to read the introduction, objectives, summary and the questions/terms at the end of the chapter. This allowed for me to get the idea of what the readings were about before i started. The next day in lecture, the second part of the strategy, i attended class lecture with my ears open for the information that i noted in the survey. Then i read the required text as well as wrote down key terms in the margins to keep me engaged. Finally the last part of this strategy, question, i then created test questions using the key terms in the margins and reviewed them every couple days, this gave me a very good grasp on the key information in the readings. Here is the test questions i created. (I dont know how to do the documentation the right way)



In my history 102 class i also used the Sam's Ants R Quick strategy. I incorporated the four parts into reading for this class. These parts as i said earlier are the survey, attend, read, and question.I feel using this strategy really helped me understand the reading more than when i usually read just to get it done.



This is an example of the reading part of this strategy where i wrote down and explained key terms on the margins while i read.