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As others have mentioned I think this is extremely effective.
An additional tip regarding this: write all over your text book. As you are reading, use the margins to re-summarize concepts (in your own words), make notes, or circle important pieces of information. It's not so much that you're trying to make a "cliff-notes" study guide in your textbook as it is that you have to be
thinking in order to restate concepts in different words. The true goal is in being attentive and focussed while you're reading.
Regarding homework, I suggest that you create your
own solution's manual, as if you were trying to guide someone else through each problem, one step at a time. See if you can't do a better job than the one that came with the book.
Finally, there are many free online resources.
MIT's Walter Lewin is a very good communicator and video lectures of his physics classes are available for free.
MIT OpenCourseWare | Physics | 8.01 Physics I: Classical Mechanics, Fall 1999 | Video Lectures MIT OpenCourseWare | Physics | 8.02 Electricity and Magnetism, Spring 2002 | Video Lectures MIT OpenCourseWare | Physics | 8.03 Physics III: Vibrations and Waves, Fall 2004 | Video Lectures
These lectures are especially helpful if you've done some book reading prior to viewing.
There are many helpful websites too.
HyperPhysics Concepts
Physics concepts may be difficult to understand and sometimes it's helpful to hear the same concepts explained in different words. If you don't understand a section of your textbook, you can try to see how others explain it.