Teaching our Students to Study the Bible

Have your student learn to ask himself the following questions as they read the Bible.
What persons have I read about, and what have I learned about them?
What places have I read about, and what have I read about them?
If the place is not mentioned, can I find out where it is?
Do I know its position on the map?
Does the passage refer to any particular time in the history of the children of Israel or some leading character?
Can I tell from memory what I have just been reading?
Are there any parallel passages or texts that throw light on this passage?
Have I read anything about God the Father?
About Jesus Christ?
About the Holy Spirit?
What have I read about myself?
About man’s sinful nature?
About the new nature?
Is there anything I should learn to do?
Any example to follow?
Any promise to lay hold of?
Any appeal for my direction?
Any prayer that I may echo?
How is this Scripture profitable for doctrine?
For reproof?
For correction?
For instruction in righteousness?
Does it contain the gospel in type or evidence?
What is the key verse of the chapter or passage?
Can I repeat it from memory?
Teach them four necessary attitudes and actions for learning the Word of God
Admit its truth
Submit to its teachings
Commit it to memory
Transmit it.
What they must learn to do
Feed themselves
They must learn to continue reading the Bible
Help them learn to read the Bible more than books about the Bible
Teach them to carry their Bibles and to mark them as they learn
Teach them to use a concordance and look up things
Teach them to do a word study in the Bible from the beginning to the end, first mention, etc
Teach them to spend a few minutes every day reading the Bible
Teach them that as they read it is to learn to be and do
Teach them to memorize the Scriptures
Teach them to meditate on the Scriptures