How You Can Increase Your Speed and Understanding by Improving Your Reading Skills

Developing your reading skills is the beginning of increasing your reading speed and comprehension. In the paragraphs to follow, I'll list three reading skills, that show you how you can improve on them, and why you might want to.

Achieving these techniques can also be useful to other areas of your life and and mental well being as well, so learning about them for most people can be advantageous, not just for people who may want to be more skilled readers.

Speed and Comprehension: Visualization

One of the most important reading skills you can have, especially when boosting your speed and comprehension is to envision the word you read as you take it in. Concentrate on seeing the words you read as a story being enacted in your mind instead of just words your brain is recording. This way you comprehend what it is you are looking at. This talent can be used for anything from reading fictional stories (which is actually one of the best ways to begin actively learning this technique) to picturing yourself walking through the blood system of a body because you're reading a biology textbook.

Here's the Next Ability to Improve Your Reading Speed and Comprehension it's Called: Chunking

Chunking is the facillity of your brain to bring together smaller and simpler amounts of words into bigger more complex groups. Alternatively, if you read "The cat came in the house to eat" you would read "Thecatcamein thehousetoeat", turning those eight words into two words and thereby potentially quadrupling your reading speed. It takes practise, but you will be able to do it over time and it has the benefit of reducing your sub-vocalization. This means you won't slow yourself down by hearing your voice speak in your head, as most of us ussually do.

Removing Distractions, Another Essential Idea for Improving the Speed of Your Reading and Level of Comprehension:

For the third neccessary reading ability that you should have, even when you aren't trying to upgrade your skill at speed reading, is having the ability to cut yourself off from disturbances. While you're trying to read, it is necessary to arrange a special area suitable for you and favouable to your studying or to make your pleasure reading more enjoyable. Have plants in the room or a good view of outside spaces with lots of shrubbery and greenery, (even some large nature based pictures can help), studies indicate this brightens your mood and increases your ability to handle stress and also increases your attention to detail. Having growing plants around you also provides also provide fresh oxygen to your environment and can take away harmful chemicals from your immediate atmosphere; both of which are aspects that can improve your general brain power and through that your reading ability.


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