yle="text-align: center;">Reading Skills

yle="text-align: left;">Introduction

yle="text-align: left;">The reading demands of us are not easy. We need to pay more attention to our approaches to reading, that is, how we read, and how we can improve the effectiveness and speed of our reading. It is very helpful for a student to know such reading ways as study reading, average reading, skimming and scanning to get rid of some bad reading habits raise reading speed, improve reading ability strengthen reading understanding.

yle="text-align: left;">Reading strategies

yle="text-align: left;">1.Fast Reading Techniques

yle="text-align: left;">Fast reading techniques help you to browse text and extract the key points. The skills require practice, but once you have got the hang of them you’ll find you can get through a substantial amount of reading in quite a short time.

yle="text-align: left;">Scanning - a useful first step before reading more deeply.

yle="text-align: left;">This way to help you read quickly to get an overview prior to in-depth reading. Although you may still need to read the entire text, by scanning first you can decide where you want to concentrate your time.

yle="text-align: left;">Skimming - handy when you're looking for particular things within a text, or trying to find out whether a text will be useful.

yle="text-align: left;">This reading method not only helps you to know something you are reading, but also helps read faster and improve your abilities of reading comprehension.

yle="text-align: left;">2.Study reading and note taking

yle="text-align: left;">Study reading  is needed when you want to make sure that you fully grasp and appreciate what you are reading. You may have to read statements more than once, stop to think about them, or jot down key words when using this style. As a result, your reading rate can easily drop to below 100 words a minute.

yle="text-align: left;">3.Note taking and marking

yle="text-align: left;">If the text you are reading is your own copy, you could also underline key words, highlight with a marker, or make notes in margins, or alternatively, if you don’t own the text, you could use little ‘post-it’ labels. And note-taking can help you gain deeper understanding and reflection, a better ability to remember and good exam preparation materials for later.

yle="text-align: left;">This process of marking texts can help you concentrate (and keep reading!) and can help you identify key points and make the book easier to survey later when you need to use it again for your assignment or to revise for an exam and revise effectively later.

yle="text-align: left;">Others:Consider getting a “study buddy” or study group. Be careful to keep focused on what you need to do and you may find that by sharing notes, explaining, asking and quizzing each other, you can increase you ability to understand, reflect upon and remember key points in texts.

yle="text-align: left;">Conclusions

yle="text-align: left;">Cultivate good reading habits and they will benefit your study. So, they're some tips for you. Firstly, have a clear focus for your reading and set your reading goals. Secondly, survey the text before you spend the time and effort involved in detailed reading and scan and skim to select the text for detailed reading. Then, use a form of note taking whilst reading in detail, to keep you concentrating, aid understanding and provide you with a record of your reading. Finally, to improve your reading speed, don't increase the speed of the eye across the page, but increase the number of words the eye recognizes in a single fixation.