| There are so many ways on how to develop | | | | each of them, ask yourself whether it satisfies |
| your speed reading skills. There are three | | | | your needs. Do you have to look for another |
| important things that you have to learn; (1) you | | | | book or this is the ideal one. |
| have to determine what you need to know from | | | | Second, you have to know how to study the |
| the text, (2) you must know how to study the | | | | material deeply. If you only need a shallow |
| material deeply, and (3) apply active reading. | | | | knowledge from the text, you can do skimming. |
| These three techniques mostly deal with the | | | | You just have to read the headings and the |
| speed and comprehension. Improving reading | | | | chapters. For the moderate information, you scan |
| comprehension skills is necessary because this is | | | | the material. You do not have to read everything, |
| the main reason way you have to deal with the | | | | just the introduction, and the summary. You also |
| speed reading techniques. | | | | have to pay attention to the graphs and diagrams |
| Let us discuss each of them so that you will have | | | | because they support the main idea of the text. |
| an idea how to start learning the techniques. First | | | | If you need a detailed learning, you have to skim |
| is determining what you need to know from the | | | | first. This will give you a whole picture or idea of |
| text. You have to know why you have to read | | | | the text. You have a deeper understanding of the |
| the text. Do you read the text because there is | | | | text |
| a purpose behind it or you just read it for | | | | Lastly is the active reading. When you do this, |
| pleasure - for no reason at all. Once you know | | | | you are paying close attention to the information |
| where you are heading, you have to evaluate the | | | | that you will get from the text. Your mind is not |
| text. You have to apply skimming in this part. You | | | | wandering if you do close reading. You will have to |
| need to know first whether the material will | | | | focus and determine what things are important |
| answer your questions. It would be useless of | | | | and what ideas those are not important. |
| you read the entire text and at the end, you get | | | | All these things are part of the reading skill that |
| nothing from it. | | | | you have to develop. These are just ways on |
| What are you going to do? Remember that | | | | how to enhance your comprehension. Remember |
| speed reading skills are very critical and | | | | that rapid reading is not useful if you do not |
| demanding. Take a look at the introduction and | | | | develop your comprehension skills. Reading without |
| the chapters. You will see in the introduction the | | | | understanding is just the same as eating |
| ideas that you will get in reading the book. The | | | | something without getting full. The speed reading |
| chapters will give you the outline of the entire | | | | skills are very helpful especially for the youth and |
| structure of the text. After taking a look from | | | | the adults. |