Most textbooks for high school students are designed to organize subject areas into Units, Chapters, Major Concepts, Subordinate Concepts, and detailed information. That organization provides the scholar with tremendous advantages for efficient and productive study.

In addition, textbooks offer an array of assessment tools that challenge the student whether mastery of declarative information and procedural learning has taken place.

Less Time; More Sweat: Read Aggressively

The Graupnerian Approach to mastering the acquisition of declarative and procedural knowledge from textbooks involves the following steps:

1. Preview the Chapter organization. Take one sheet of paper and divide the sheet with a vertical line. Write the Chapter Title at the top. Next, write the Section Title. Determine the number of Major Concepts. Outline each Major Concept with the important Subordiante Concepts.
2. At the top of the empty column, write the Major Idea in a box.
3. Make a cursory review of the Major and Subordinate Concepts, asking the question "what's going to be covered in this Section?"
4. Aggressively, read the Section by answering questions as you tackle one concept after another. The whole Section can be covered in 5-10 minutes. Take notes sparingly in the Empty Column.
5. Review what you have learned, topic by topic.
6. Use the Assessments at the end of the Section to Review. Consider the Main Idea, again.
7. You are ready for class.