| This article will address the benefits of reading out | | | | improve, so that the activity may be performed |
| loud, and especially how it can help you "learn how | | | | more easily the next time. So, the more you read |
| to speed read." Most of us have drifted to only | | | | out loud, the easier it will become. |
| reading silently, but we're forgetting the | | | | After a couple days of reading out loud, you'll |
| advantages to reading aloud. I believe that | | | | improve so much that it will feel like you're finally |
| everyone should read at least one full article out | | | | fluent in English! You will develop a general |
| loud every week. Reading aloud well is a good, | | | | familiarity with most of the words you encounter, |
| challenging combination of both reading and talking | | | | making it easy to read anything with similar style |
| that can contribute to the improvement of both | | | | or language. |
| skills individually. | | | | In any kind of reading, especially speed reading, it |
| The main benefit of reading aloud is that it can | | | | is important to have a very secure knowledge of |
| help you in gaining a strong familiarity of the | | | | all the words and sentences you are going to |
| words you're reading. This type of familiarity is | | | | read. When you improve your reading out loud, |
| impossible to achieve when speed reading or | | | | you improve every other type of reading as well. |
| when reading regularly. | | | | Think of it as an optimization of all your language |
| When you read out loud, you are using several | | | | skills. |
| different parts of your brain... | | | | Probably the most important (and noticeable) part |
| Your brain does not only have to use the eyes to | | | | of your word familiarity will be the improvement |
| read in the individual words, but also decipher how | | | | of visual word recognition. Once you're 'fluent' |
| each word sounds, based on memory of the | | | | enough to read out loud without stuttering or |
| words, or based on knowledge of the groups of | | | | repeating yourself, it will be because you know |
| letters if the word is unfamiliar. | | | | what you're going to say. The only way you can |
| You are speaking, which requires the use of your | | | | know in advance what you will say is by visually |
| mouth, your larynx, your tongue, and several | | | | recognizing the words coming up. |
| other different parts near and around those. But | | | | This is effectively speed reading on top of reading |
| not only do you pronounce the words, you also | | | | aloud. Speed reading is reading visually instead of |
| have to control your intonation, inflection, and | | | | aurally. Reading aloud is doing both - you speed |
| tone, based on the sentence as a whole. | | | | read ahead so that the aural reading is smooth. |
| You are also comprehending, which requires | | | | Reading out loud is very useful. Just by reading |
| fetching the connotations and possible definitions | | | | out loud a little every day, you can improve all |
| for all the words coming in, and assembling the | | | | your reading skills, and you can even get some |
| proper definitions together to form the same | | | | easy speed reading training as well. Reading skills |
| meaning the author was assembling when he | | | | are extremely important in today's world. It is |
| wrote what you're reading! | | | | important to make sure you can read efficiently |
| When you move through this many processes to | | | | and effectively. |
| perform an activity, the processes are forced to | | | | |