Mortimer Adler's Levels of Reading - Notes from 8/23/12 (I think)

The four levels of reading are:

1. Elementary reading: basically the level of reading one is taught to do in elementary.  What does it say?

                 Decoding - putting sounds together to read words.
                         Comprehension - understanding the meaning of the words.

2. Inspectional reading: systematic skimming and superficial reading.  What is it about?

                  Learning the book - the kind of reading we do when we're choosing a book at the library.

3. Analytical reading: classifying, coming to terms, determining the message, criticizing the book, and author.  What does it mean?

                Our goal at Maeser - to extract meaning from the text that we can apply to our world.

4. Syntopical reading: reading multiple books on one subject as defined by you - "one book opens another" C.G. Jung[typical post-graduate college reading]  How does the meaning in varying sources compare?