Improving Reading Skills

“Today a Reader, Tomorrow a Leader”

Margaret Fuller
 Have you ever thought……?

What is most likely to influence your success at

university or workplace?

Declining literacy rate is the major concern for

our educators but still it isn't getting better.
Why?
“Reading is to the mind what exercise
is to the body.”

Joseph Addison
Strategies for Reading Improvement
1. Read About Things That Interest You

• If you are interested in what you are reading

about, the words will come alive, and you will
be motivated to understand.
2. Read Material That is of Your Level or a
Little Difficult for You

• Looking up many unknown words in a

conventional dictionary is tedious and difficult
to retain.

• Initially stay in your comfort zone and keep

reading.
3. Learn to Read In-depth, Stay on the
Same Subject for a while
• If you are familiar with the subject, you will read
more.
• Read at least one complete book of one author.
• If the subject is new to you, try to read few more
books about the same subject. This will make you
come across the same ideas and vocabulary.
• Going deeper into subject improves reading
confidence.
4. Listen First If You have Trouble in Reading

• Listen to audio files of the material that you

are reading.
• Hearing the rhythm of someone reading a text
will help your own reading.
• This practice makes difficult content seem
more familiar.
5. Let Your Imagination Get Involved

• Good readers get engrossed in their reading

and let it trigger their imagination.

• Enjoy the reading experience and look

forward to absorb the information, ideas and
thoughts expressed by the writer.
6. Don’t Worry About What You don’t
Understand

• While reading, you may even understand

something in your own personal way but you
can still enjoy reading without understanding
all of what you read.
7. Recognize That the Key is to Read
a lot
• You may develop a system for keeping track of new
words that you encounter in your reading.

• However, the main growth in your vocabulary and

reading skill will come just from reading as much as
you can.

• Keep reading, and you will become a better reader.

“I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I
think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had
a chance to read a lot.”
Bill gates

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!

How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a
book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be
miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
Jane Austen