Reading strategies focus on both speed and comprehension. Some techniques will push you by going as fast as you can to increase your reading pace. Other tactics point out the need to change bad habits to speed up. Last but not least, all techniques only make sense when we understand what we read. Here’s a quick video plus a few bullet tips as a quick reminder on how to improve reading comprehension. [Read more...]
Techniques To Improve Comprehension [video]
March 25, 2011 By 2 Comments
Increase Reading Speed and Comprehension in 5 Steps
January 21, 2011 By 1 Comment
I like articles that come as a quick snap of how to do something. So, today we look at five important steps to increase reading speed and comprehension. You may click the image further down to enlarge the mind map providing extra information for each point. Please leave a comment to discuss any questions or suggestions! [Read more...]
Does speed reading really work?
January 18, 2011 By Leave a Comment
A few years ago, when I heard about speed reading for the first time, I dipped straight into photo reading. This reading style promises a reader to be able to read 25,000 words a minute by snapping a photo with its subconscious mind. Wow, that sounded really inspiring. I instantly jumped on, read a book about it and applied the techniques. Unfortunately, it didn’t work out as I wanted. So, does speed reading really work at all? Could I’ve done better? [Read more...]
Are bad reading habits really bad?
January 14, 2011 By 1 Comment
I recen
tly read a novel by Haruki Murakami and got totally lost in the story. I didn’t care about the time I spent reading nor did I wanted to know how many words I read per minute. I often read a sentence twice or was adding imaginary details to what had happened in the story; my mind was constantly wandering around. Does this sound like bad reading habits? Not to me, I pretty much enjoyed this style of reading. [Read more...]
