Layered Reading

One pass through a book is not absorption - return when more depth is needed.

Key Concept

• Pass through the same source at increasing depth - skim, highlight, summarize.
• Skim first pass, mark second, extract third - same book, three depths, one sitting at a time.
• I do not read a book once and pretend I absorbed it - I pass through again when I need more.

Examples

• First pass on the coaching manual marked three sections; second pass only those got sentences in my own words.
• My kid skims the chapter for gist first, then rereads only the confusing paragraph a second time so she can actually explain it back to me.

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