Best Ways to Improve Your Reading Comprehension Skills

Improve your vocabulary  To improve your vocabulary, you can take an online vocabulary quiz to assess your current level of vocabulary comprehension. Use flashcards once or twice a week on words you don't know. Make a point to use the newly learned words in oral and written communication. Read as much as possible to improve your ability to guess what a word means in a certain context. 

Ask questions about the text you're reading  Asking questions about what you're reading can help improve your reading comprehension by allowing you to become invested in the text. This can broaden your overall understanding of what you're reading, enabling you to explore themes, motifs, and other components of the text that you might not otherwise inquire about.  

Use context clues   Using context clues is a great way to understand that context clues can be found in words and sentences you're not familiar with. To use context clues, you can focus on key phrases or ideas in a sentence and extract the main idea of a sentence or paragraph based on this information. You can also find nearby words that are synonyms or antonyms of the word you don't know. 

Look for the Main Idea Identifying the main idea of a paragraph or article can help you determine the importance of the article. It can help you understand what the author is trying to convey. When reading, pause every few paragraphs and see if you can grasp the main idea. Then, try to put the main idea into your own words for further understanding. 

Summarize what you've read  Summarizing requires you to decide what's important in the text and then put it into your own words. Summarizing allows you to determine whether you really understand what you read and can better remember what you read in the long run. 

Break reading down into smaller sections If you're reading a longer or more challenging text, consider breaking it down into smaller sections. For example, you might read two paragraphs at a time and then pause to quickly summarize what you read in your head. Breaking down what you're reading can help you feel less overwhelmed and give you a better chance of truly understanding the information in the text. 

Pace yourself  Pacing yourself is also an effective way to work on your reading comprehension skills by allowing you to set realistic goals for your reading practice and habits. This is especially true for books or other literature that you find challenging. Set a goal for yourself that you know you can meet each day. For example, rather than saying that you want to read an entire book in two days, say that you will read three chapters a night.

Supplement their class reading  If your child's class is studying a particular theme, look for easy-to-read books or magazines on the topic. Some prior knowledge will help them make their way through tougher classroom texts and promote reading comprehension.

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