Help your students build the reading strategies they need to succeed. Based on a proven short course taught at Harvard University's Bureau of Study Counsel, Strategic Reader prepares students for the volume and rigor of college reading assignments.
In
Strategic Reader, students expand their repertoire of reading strategies, develop the metacognitive capacities essential to advanced reading and learning, and practice flexibility and judgment in adapting their reading approaches to different materials and purposes.
Any college-ready reader, from college freshman to graduate student, will benefit from
Strategic Reader. It is well suited for use in study skills or gateway courses across the disciplines to increase student persistence and promote college success.
In our pilot, 73% of students reported that they were more aware of their reading strategies. Over 72% said that they would apply the reading approaches learned from
Strategic Reader to their other coursework.