This document discusses strategies for efficient reading, including increasing your reading rate, concentrating while reading, and avoiding regressions by rereading. It recommends previewing material before reading, using a pen as a pacer, and practicing faster reading techniques daily. Specific strategies mentioned include skimming to get the general idea, scanning to find precise details, and detailed reading for subjects like law that require in-depth understanding.

1. EFFICIENT READING By:Kristy YoungMalezky Hernández Edwin Pitty Final Project III Trimester

2. What is your Reading Rate? It is the speed at which you read and comprehend the words in a text.

3. What is an Average Reading Rate? They vary according to the difficulty of the material.

4. Tips and Suggestions for a Better Reading How Can You Increase Your Reading Speed?

5. Be Aggressive! Attack! When reading, strive towards understanding rather than compliance.

6. Concentrate The faster you read, the harder you must concentrate.

7. Stop Regressions Regression: The act of going back and rereading what you have finished.

8. Expand Fixations

12. PreviewBefore Reading.

16. Efficient reading strategies Scanning You skim read material to get the general picture. To find out precise information you will need to practise the technique of scanning. You may need to find out specific details of a topic for an assignment or a task that your lecturer has set. There is little point in skimming a whole book for this purpose. You should identify a few key expressions which will alert you to the fact that your subject is being covered. You can then run your eyes down the page looking for these expressions - in chapter headings or sub-headings, or in the text itself.

17. Efficient reading strategies Detailed reading Some subjects such as law subjects and literature, for example, require a very detailed understanding from the student. This kind of reading is always more time consuming, but can be combined with skimming and scanning for greater efficiency. If it is a photocopy or your own book, take full advantage by underlining or highlighting and using the margins for your own comments or questions.

18. Bibliography Chapter 8 – Efficient ReadingBrenda D. Smith BreakingThrough 8th Edition – Pearson Longman

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