Feedback Focus: 3 Strategies

This week’s feedback was concentrated on actually reading the stories and using strategies to help focus on each story. I started with the reading out loud strategy. I found that simply reading them out loud was not effective for me because I ended up going too fast and not emphasizing all of the story. When I noticed this, I asked my roommate if I could read the story to her. As a result, I realized that I was able to focus a lot easier on the story. I was also able to understand the dialogue a lot better and it made the story a lot more fun to read. I think this strategy will be really helpful when I need extra focus on a topic or story because it is like I am telling someone else about it. Secondly, I used the copy-and-delete strategy. This is actually something I use a lot, especially when reading long chapters in my textbooks or long articles for class. It is a total mind trick for me and it makes me feel like I am making more progress than I probably am. This is my favorite technique when I am trying to get through a story or article at a quicker speed than normal. It doesn’t take as long as reading out loud so I think it is something I will definitely continue to use in the future. Lastly, I used the time strategy. This was my least favorite out of the three. The timer stressed me out and I was too focused on trying to read the story at a good speed and it was harder for me to focus on what I was reading. I don’t think I will use this strategy in the future because it ended up taking me a lot longer than it should have and I was not able to fully focus on the story because I was mentally watching the timer count down in my head.

Clock timer Pixbay