How To Improve Critical Reading Skills

Executive summary by Howard S Berg

People in Bogor often ask if a teacher can help them improve critical reading skills. Actually there is one strategy that can immediately boost your comprehension and understanding while speed reading, or even reading at normal speed. Let's learn about this incredibly powerful strategy now.

Purpose engages your unconscious brain and focuses it upon what really matters. It is holiday time, and thousands of people are mulling about the mall. People you don't know. Suddenly you spot your sibling, friend, or work associate. More importantly, this same mechanism can help you spot important information while reading. Your brain spotted important people because they are significant to your life. Things that matter to you function like a purpose while studying. Your unconscious brain starts searching to information that matches your purpose. This is an important step in improving critical reading skills.

Before you begin to read set a purpose. That purpose will fix both your conscious and unconscious brain on finding information. Your unconscious brain can sort through huge amounts of information to find what really matters. The next time you read to learn something important remember to first determine your purpose. Your brain will reward you with far better reading comprehension for doing this.

How to Develop Effective Reading Skills

Reading skills are crucial at every level of our personal and professional life. The printed word is no longer our only window to the world. Online reading through blogs and other websites has become an important medium of reading.

Start with a subject or book that interests you. Pick up the biography of someone who inspires you or read the history of an era that intrigues you. The tug of your interest will pull you through the end making reading enjoyable. Gradually you will want to move on to something at a higher level and explore subjects you found too boring to read earlier. The variety should be particularly useful to you if you are preparing for entrance exams. As you graduate from reading simple books to comprehending any subject with ease, you will see the progress in your reading skill.

To make your reading more effective, try to keep these points in mind.

a.       Know the purpose of reading

b.      Ask questions

c.       Make notes

d.      Summarise at the end

e.      Set time out

f.        Read the Table of Contents:

g.       Read a few pages everyday

h.      Check sub vocalisation

i.         Try variety in reading

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