previewing a text in order to activate your background knowledge

but what about for those times when we're reading a chapter about something

we don't have any background knowledge about

so the other thing you can do is expand that background knowledge

and I tell my students that this is really sensual if you don't know

anything about a chapter

or a topic that you're going to be reading about sometimes your professors

will do some

activating your background knowledge in introducing things to you but sometimes

they don't just because of time

so it's your job as a student to be that advocate for your own learning

so what are some ways we can expand our background knowledge

we can do things like just talk to someone talk to a friend a parent

another student about the topics in that chapter

we can read a shorter article that's easier

to quickly digest before we get into that top dense

chapter. we can do things like Google the topic and see what's out there about

something

and a really nice resource is YouTube

sometimes you can go to YouTube and Google your topic

and find a multitude videos or demonstrations by other instructors

about that topic that are really short and

easy to digest. this topic nurture verses nature

if we Google that you can see here that there are several

four to five minute videos that give us some background knowledge

on that topic. just to take five minutes to get yourself familiar and a visual

format before you read that text but chapter can really increase your

comprehension

and really increase your success with understanding that chapter

so come back next time for how to actually

read and successfully understand

that difficult textbook chapter