Many people do not read well because of the bad habits of silent reading. Correcting these reading practices and their replacement by poor practices reading of goodwill to improve both reading speed and reading comprehension. You may be a better reader by practicing these tips.
1. Improve reading its position and adjust your attitude. Reading is a passive activity. Your body position has a lot to do with their level of engagement with the text. Reading in bed is wonderful to put to sleep, but the prone position is not conducive to making your mind with a textbook or article. Sit upright in a straight back chair a table or desk with good lighting and keep our feet on the ground. Place your hands two in reading. It is not perfectly comfortable? Good! Reading is not supposed to be relaxing, but is supposed to be stimulating. Establish a purpose for reading, and be realistic and honest with yourself. Not everything should be read with reading the same mindset. Is you read the article just say to yourself or others that you did? Are you reading to pass a test, to speak on a superficial level on the item, or to understand in depth?
2. Improving your concentration. First, turn the iPod ® and find a quiet room. Any which compete with full concentration reduces reading speed and reading comprehension. Consciously divest himself of the thousands of other things that need or prefer be doing. Good reading does not involve multiple tasks. Stop taking mental vacations throughout the reading. For example, never allow a pause at the end of a page or chapter, Keep reading! Minimize daydreaming to maintain personal contacts with the text focused on the content. Cue himself that quickly return to the text when your mind first begins to wander. Start small, uninterrupted reading sessions, with 100% concentration and gradually increase the duration of its sessions until you can read by, say 30 minutes. Rome was not built in a day care and their ability to read will take time to improve. Take a short, pre-planned to leave his area after reading a reading session. Do not read anything more during their holidays.
3. Improve reading rate. The reading rate should be rushed, but consistent. This does not preclude the need to vary their reading speed, according to the requirements of the text, or the need to re-read certain sections. However, it is stated in a herky-haltingly. Use your dominant hand, the pace of their reading. Hold three fingers together and the pace of their reading each line below. Move your hand at a constant rate, but hurried. Intentionally, but only briefly, decreases with decreasing reading comprehension. With the hand prevents re-reading or skipping lines and also improves understanding. The acceleration the time of the hand across the page, after practice, will also help extend peripheral vision and improve the movement of the eyes.
4. Improving eye movement. Reading research tells us that good readers have fewer eye fixations per line. When the eyes move fixation to fixation, there is little reading comprehension. Therefore, focus on the center of the page and use your peripheral vision to see the words left and right when you're reading the text in columns such as newspapers, articles, etc. Focus on one third of the way the text line, then two thirds of the way, for the text of the book. Again, you may have to work until these guidelines through the addition of an additional fixation point until it can read comfortably.
5. Improving interactivity. Good comprehension of silent reading is always a two-way conversation between author and reader. The text was written by one person, and customize your reading experience by treating reading as a dialogue. This conversation mind, improves concentration and understanding. Chat system in itself a challenge to author How? and Why? questions. Ask what you mean? Make predictions as to where the plot (if) the narrative, or argument (if persuasive), or sequence (for exposure) will lead. Make connections to other parts of the text or outside the text.
Mark Pennington is an educational author, presenter, reading specialist, and middle school teacher. Mark is committed to differentiated instruction for the diverse needs of today’s remedial reading students. Visit Mark’s website at http://www.penningtonpublishing.com to check out his free teacher resources and books: Teaching Reading Strategies, Teaching Essay Strategies, Teaching Grammar and Mechanics, and Teaching Spelling and Vocabulary.
