THIEVES reading technique.
Title.
What do I know already? How does this relate to surrounding material? What’s the viewpoint? What assumptions am I making about the content?
Headings.
What’s the apparent topic? First paragraph topic? What question should this section answer?
Introduction.
What topics are introduced? Do I know about this topic?
Every paragraph’s first sentence.
What do these say the chapter is about?
Visuals/vocabulary.
Do the images and highlighted terms communicate anything?
End-of-chapter questions.
What do they convey is important?
Summary.
What have I learned that the summary points back to?