Reading for potential
Reading in English language is not an easy task, especially non-native English reader. The readers get stuck so easily and become slower because of the vocabulary words unknown. To improve reading skill proficiency faster with more efficiency, finding a main idea, skimming and scanning are important skills should be practiced a lot. Finding main idea is to read entire paragraphs to find out topic. Skimming and scanning both are a reading technique which will hasten a main idea finding procedure.
Counting time in reading
Have you gotten any smartphone? Use a countdown clock function to specify times in reading. Start with 30 seconds per 100 words in your first time reading. This is a marvelous way which helps you get stuck less in unfamiliar words. When you know about a time limitation, you will concentrate on familiar or identified words and phrases well for understanding a whole passage.
Limitation time is essential for skimming and main idea finding. This way will prevent you from getting stuck in reading each paragraph. Setting less time into 2 – 3 seconds each paragraphs in reading comprehension because it is a must-to-do you need to practice in finding only most significant data without wasting time.
Try assuming a heading
Normally, a title of a story would tell us about a main idea of writing. If you are practicing your skimming skill, you should link your writing with heading. Try reading story in fixed time and presuming heading of each subject matter what is that is. If an assuming heading is correct, it shows that you understand a main point of story correctly.
Pre-analysis reading an information?
This is an advice for reading comprehension. When you want to find a very specific data like an answer for an inquiry or something you need to find for your research. First, please make sure you know what are things you looking for such as a set of numbers, dates, names or something with more specific detail. When you know a word or phrase which you are looking for, you can overlook unimportant detail.
Highlighting unfamiliar words and phrases for reading after
When you skim texts by controlling time, there are some unknown words or sentences exist and you don’t have time to guess a meaning. It is very crucial not to waste your time. But if you want in increase your lexicon knowledge, you can highlight or underline that unfamiliar words, phrases or sentences while you are reading them. You can find out their meaning by opening dictionaries or surfing the Internets later after finishing reading a whole story.
Reversed Reading
Starting by find very important words at the end and then read backward till the beginning of the story. This way affects only reading comprehension. Still, it is an actual good method for a fast reading because it controls you not to focus on every word. It makes you concentrates only what words that you want to know.
Lexicon
It will be impossible for knowing all vocabulary in essay for understanding detail. When you see any main vocabularies or sentences which you do not understand, you can note them but do not use a dictionary right now. Try guessing meaning of that word by using this method – a context clues. It is a reading surrounded or nearby sentences of an unknown word and guess the meaning of an unknown word. When you finish a guessing procedure, you can use a dictionary for finding meaning of that word. Correct them if they are not in a right meaning. You might be surprised if your guessing is nearly correct or right.
To summarize all these techniques might not be a fast effective way to change the non fluent reader into a very fluent in reading in very short time. It takes 6 months or more than that to see how increases your reading skill. These techniques would guide you all in a reading -practice especially a last method that I write. Lastly, I would like to tell everyone please do not give up.