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1. Encyclopedias
2. New Testament References (Commentaries)
3. Old Testament References (Commentaries)
4. Devotional
5. Evangelism and Missions
6. Preaching Reference (Classic Sermons)
7. Biblical Reference Books
8. Church History
9. Children’s and Healthcare

Levels of Reading

This information was taken from: Adler, Mortimer J. and Charles Van Doren. How to Read a Book: The Classic
Guide to Intelligent Reading, Rev ed. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1972.

I. 1 Level; Elementary Reading (21-30)
st
1 Stage: Reading Readiness (Pre-School & Kindergarten)
st
st
2nd Stage: Word Mastery (1 Grade)
rd
th
3 Stage: Vocabulary growth and the utilization of context (4 Grade)
th
4 Stage: Mature Reading (8 -10 Grade)
th
th
nd
II. 2 Level; Inspectional Reading (43-56)
Two Types of Inspectional Reading
A. Systematic Skimming or Pre-Reading (32-36)
1. The Components of Systematic Skimming or Pre-Reading
a. Look for Titles, Prefaces
b. Look for Contents
c. Explore the indexes (if the book has one)
d. Explore the publisher’s Blurb (recommendations of the book).
e. Turn the pages, dipping in here and there, reading a paragraph or two, sometimes several pages
in sequence, never more than that. Thumb through/leaf through the book.
B. Superficial Reading
1. This type of reading involves reading the difficult book through without ever stopping to look up or
ponder the things you do not understand right away.
2. This type of reading advises on the rates of reading ability “to read at different speeds and to know
when the different speeds are appropriate” (39).
a. Essence of Active Reading
Four Basic Questions a Reader Asks (46-47)
i. What is the book about as a whole?
ii. What is being said in detail, and how?
iii. Is the book true, in whole or in part?
iv. What of it?
b. How to Make a Book of Your Own (48-50)
i. Underlining—of major points; of important or forceful statements
ii. Vertical lines at the Margin—to emphasize a statement already underlined or to point to a
passage too long to be underlined.
iii. Star, asterisk, or other doodad at the margin—to be used sparingly, to emphasize the ten or
dozen most important statements or passages in the book.
iv. Numbers in the margin—to indicate a sequence of points made by the author in developing
an argument.

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