A CiRCE Guide to Reading

Tolle lege! You have discovered the simplest and most effective means available to progress from basic decoding to purposeful reading with the tools provided in this guide. A CiRCE Guide to Reading presents a powerful, flexible approach that equips you to experience the intellectual growth of academic study, the immediate success of a quick scan, and the deep pleasures of a close read.

Learn to:

• take charge of your reading
• dialogue with a book and its author
• scan, read, and review in layers
• keep a commonplace book
• master highlighters
• wrestle with even the most challenging text
• discuess texts with other book lovers

A note from Andrew Kern:

” For some years I have practiced a multi-layered and super-flexible approach to reading that avoids the obsessiveness and hyper-analysis of most of what is taught in our schools.

It involves elements of speed-reading, elements of close-reading, and elements of humane-reading.

I’ve taught this approach to students and apprentices over the years so a number of you may have already learned at least pieces of it.

One amazing thing to me about this approach is that I’ve heard from both Oxford scholars and parents of students with learning disabilities how helpful it is. That is because, I believe, it attends not to the thousand differences we all develop in our approaches to reading (most of which are glorious and idiosyncratic) but to the essential things we all do by virtue of the fact that we are humans engaged in the act of reading. ”

Product Information:

Product Format: Paperback, 128 pages
Brand: CiRCE Institute
Grades: 7-AD
ISBN: 9780999146606
Length in Inches: 9
Width in Inches: 6.25
Height in Inches: 0.5
Weight in Pounds: 0.5

Copyright 2017