How to Improve Your Reading Skills

Reading is one of the most important essentials of learning and of life. It serves as a teacher to readers in facing life and its challenges. It is the best way to acquire information and learn about the world around one person. And what better way to improve learning than knowing how to improve one's reading skills.

Here is a list of how to improve one's reading skills:

Find books to read. The best way to drive a person into reading is of course by tapping their interests. Find books, articles or any literary piece that could be of one's interest. This would make a person glued to the literary piece longer.

Try to read the letters separately and group the sounds together to form a word. There may be times when the letters are not to be pronounced in the word but this would be a good way to start reading.

Find a place to read. Find a place where one can find peace and quiet to read the articles. This would help the person concentrate more on what the reader is reading as compared to a place where people come and go and a huge tendency for people to bother the reader.

Set the mood. Check the pictures of the book or open a radio or plug on the earphones to listen to soothing music to set the mood and be calm to allow self to get into the feel of reading.

Read the bold letters first. It is best if one starts reading with the bold letters of the article as this indicates the title of the book or article one is about to read. This should pick up the concept of the whole literary piece one is about to read.

Take time to read. Read as much as possible, allow self to read more and push self to the limit without stressing oneself. Do not rush in reading literary pieces. Read words carefully, one by one and do not jump in between words. Sometimes, people think that good reading equates to fast reading like scanning the page and looking at the words that just captures the readers' eyes. Sometimes, they think that they are getting the right information even if they don't.

Take a break. When a reader feels tired of reading, one can always take a break and just get back to where the reader has left off.

Pay a visit to the library. The best way to find the best books of one's interest is the library, where one can have a variety of options to choose from. One can choose depending on their interest, level of reading and comprehension.

Take the sentence as a whole and not word per word. Do not overdo it by knowing the meaning of each word by checking the dictionary for meaning all the time, sometimes, it pays to read the whole sentence first and one may be able to arrive at the definition of the word that's new to the reader.

Read again. There may be times when one finds it difficult to understand the sentence. It may be because of external factors or lack of concentration or new words in the sentence. Just stay focused and read the sentence over and over again. Sometimes, reading it out loud helps.

Start from small. Some people would like to think big but rushing into longer articles or thicker books sometimes makes the reader get tired and bored easily with the literary piece.

Read as often as possible. Practice makes perfect.

Enjoy. With these ways on how to improve one's reading skills, find joy in reading because if one does not enjoy what he or she is doing, one would not keep him or her hooked to it.

Happy reading!

Websites For Learning All About Reading

  1. Book Adventure
  2. The Reading Genie
  3. Succeed to Read
  4. Summer Reading Lists Program