Sharon started by previewing the material she was about to read. She surveyed the reading for vocabulary words that were unfamiliar to her and looked up their definitions. She then went back and reread the material. In doing this, Sharon was preparing herself for learning. As she read the material, Sharon relied on the examples given in the book to supplement the regular text.  Combining the examples with information she already knew about the subject, Sharon was able to process the information in a manner that she understood. At times Sharon would make up her own examples to supplement the examples provided in the text; she felt that the more examples she could come up with, the better she would be able to form a clear picture of the material. When trying to recall the information for the first question, Sharon would explain what she knew in terms of the examples she read. She could not remember verbatim from the text, so she put the context of the reading into her own words.

. . . Sharon tried to process the information in terms that made sense to her, Andrew relied on the ability of his memory, and God to magically reproduce the material.  It seems to me that he thought about the material while he was reading it, but he never really sought to seek an understanding of the material. He seemed interested in the goings on of the anteater, and the uniqueness of natural selection, but he left it at that. He allowed himself to remain awestruck over the information rather than connect the ideas and make them concrete notions.

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