Tips for developing effective reading skills

Tips for Developing the Effective Reading Skills

•       Increase your vocabulary systematically.

•       Think about the subject you are going to read.

•       Skim the writing you are going to read. Try to find out anything familiar or new.

•      Careful reading is the most important requirement for success.

•       Look for contextual clues to deduce the meaning of unknown words.

•      Learn the grammatical functions of words as you read.

•       Avoid time wasting to finger out the meaning if you don’t understand any word or phrase. Look up the word, which you don’t understand in the dictionary if it is inevitable.

•       Recognize the reference words and identify the words or phrases to which they refer. This will help you understand the message quickly.

•       Read for meaning. There may be many ideas in a given message, not all the ideas are of equal significance.

•       Observe the flow of ideas. In writing there may be sentences, which are connected in meaning to each other. A good reader tends not to read all sentences in such situations.

•       Draw logical inference. There may be many things, which can be inferred without getting into the details.

•       Read for comprehension. Remember that here is no point in reading without understanding.

•       An efficient reader has the ability to male prediction of what will come next in a passage. This is a type of inferential skill, which helps to save a lot of reader’s time.

•       Make reading a regular feature of your life. Fix come time for reading something new and make it a routine.