How to improve your reading skills
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This document provides 7 strategies for improving reading skills: 1) Read topics that interest you; 2) Read materials at your level or slightly challenging; 3) Learn to read in-depth on the same subject; 4) Listen to audio versions if you struggle; 5) Use your imagination while reading; 6) Don't worry if you don't understand everything; 7) Recognize that reading a lot is key to improving. It emphasizes finding engaging topics and gradually increasing difficulty and depth of reading to build skills and confidence over time through regular practice.
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How to improve your reading skills
- 1. How to improve your reading skills “Today a Reader, Tomorrow a Leader”
- 2. Strategies for Reading Improvement
- 3. 1. Read About things that interest you If you are interest in what you are reading about, the words will come alive, and you will be motivated to understand
- 4. 2. Read Materials That is of your Level or a Littlie Difficult for you Looking up many unknown words in a conventional dictionary is tedious and difficult to retain. Initially stay in your comfort zone and keep reading.
- 5. 3. Learn to Read in-depth, stay on the Same Subject for a while If you familiar with the subject, you will read more. Read at least one complete book of one author. If the subject in new to you, try to read few more books about the same subject. This will make you come across the same ideas and vocabulary. Going deeper into subject improves reading confidence.
- 6. 4.Listen First if you have Trouble in Reading Listen to audio files of the material that you are reading. Hearing the rhythm of someone reading a text will help your own reading. This practice makes difficult content seem more familiar.
- 7. 5. Let your imagination Get Involved Good reader get engrossed in their reading and let it trigger their imagination. Enjoy the reading experience and look forward to absorb the information, ideas and thoughts expressed by the writer.
- 8. 6. Don’t Worry About What You don’t understand While reading, you may even understand something in your own personal way but you can still enjoy reading without understanding all of what you read.
- 9. 7. Recognize That the key is to Read a lot You may develop a system for keeping track of new words that you encounter in your reading. However, the main growth in your vocabulary and reading skill will come just from reading as much as you can. Keep reading, and you will become a better reader.
- 10. “I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.” Bill gates “I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! – When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.” Jane Austen
- 11. Thanks & good luck Firas Alghamdi