I am looking to help myself read better and faster any ideas or suggestions?
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Practice makes perfect, read aloud when you can, it helps. and also use your finger to follow along with what your reading, to keep track where you are. the more read the better you will be at it. and you can always go to your local library and volunteer to read to the kids,the kids love it and it gives you a chance to practice. good luck!
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The other posters have given excellent advice.  Read, read read.  That is the most important thing you can do to improve your vocabulary and to become a better writer.  Pay attention to the different styles of writing you experience in your reading.  Note what you like and what you don't like.  Keep a notebook with you all the time so you can jnot down words and phrases you hear that you don't quite understand - and find out what they mean and how to use them.\n\nThe links I've included will give you manhy more ideas.  As you work at it you will find hundreds of other sites that can be very helpful.\n\nGood luck with it.
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read\nlisten to music \ndrawing
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Concentrating and Reading\n\nIt is often difficult to concentrate during your studies. Here are some techniques that many students have found helpful. \nAsking Yourself Questions \nGetting the Most from Your Reading \nRead the Ideas \nAsking Yourself Questions\nThe key to maintaining focus is to stop periodically and ask yourself questions, such as \nHow does this relate to what I already know? \nIf this is true, what else follows? \nWhat else could these facts mean? \nWhat assumptions are being made? \nWhat's the evidence for this? \nCan I think of a good example of this? \nWhat are the unique points of this? \nGetting the Most from Your Reading\nCheck off (with a light pencil mark) each paragraph that you completely understand. If you start to get lost in the reading, you will know exactly where: just after the last check! \nIf a section is too difficult for you, try reading in a whisper. Hearing what we read is like reading it a second time. \nSimilarly, it is good to stop regularly and summarize out loud what you have just read. \nTry to link new information with the information you already know. Ask yourself, ``How do I already know this?'' You can also ask yourself questions such as the focus questions above. Active linking creates powerful memories. \nTake a few seconds to visualize what you have just read. \nDon't forget to jot down key words and concepts. If you read, `rite, and recite (``3R''), you've got a better chance of retaining crucial information. \nAfter taking a short break from studying, and before you start up again, take a few minutes to review the information you have just learned. This will give you a sense of progress and motivate you to continue on. \nRead the Ideas\nWhen you are reading \nStop at the end of each \nParagraph \nPage \nMain Section \nClose your book \nRecall the ideas from memory \nRecite the ideas out loud in your own words \n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\naugustine@columbia.edu\nLast update: February 4, 1996
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There are no shortcuts. The only way to improve (any skill) is to practice.\n\nJust read. Pick something you find a little hard.. and read that. Next time it won't be so hard.\n\nThen find something thats a little harder that that, and so on, and so on. It takes time, and practice.\n\nMake it a nightly routine.
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Try the series called Vocabulary for Achievement from Great Source Books. It has six levels of difficulty and is aimed at words often used on standardized tests. \n\nThe reading is something that you must simply practice doing. You could try timing yourself as a method to improve speed. Usually in standardized tests passages are about 200-750 words in length. So give yourself some passages that long and try scanning them as quickly as possible. I find many students improve their speed if they read the questions first, then they know what they are looking for. \n\nHesitation in speaking is usually based on feeling like you are going to make a mistake and embarrass yourself in public. The only thing you can do is practice speaking. Don't worry about making mistakes -- everyone does, even native speakers. However, I find that my Turkish and Spanish both get easier to communicate in after two or three glasses of wine... Give it a try!
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This could be dyslexia. It also sounds as if you might have an attention problem.  I would need to know your age.  You could try a colored overlay to help with the words getting switched out of order.  This really seems to help some people. (a colored overlay is simply a tranparent,colored, very thin sheet of plastic that you actually lay over your reading) Have you ever had any educational testing for a learning disability? By the way, having a LD is NOTHING TO BE ASHAMED OF.  Many people think that if someone is LD, they are not very bright- this is not true. Wish I could help you.  Good luck and try a colored overlay.  (different colors work for different folks)
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I do not know if any of those programs featured on TV work but I have had to learn to speed read in the past, mainly because I was preparing to take the GMAT (which has sections of timed reading so I had to learn to read SUPER-fast).  I learned to speed read from books I picked up on test preparation.  You might want to try getting some books about speed reading first, though if you read slow, it might take you forever to read those books!
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reading english novels, newspapers and magazines will help. and always bring an english dictionary in your pocket.\n\nor visit this site:\nhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/index.shtml
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Read Aloud. Make notes, force yourself to be responsible for the information you've gotten every 2 paragraphs. Mostly reading aloud should get u on track...jack
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you should read different book.then take note of it read it again. you can know passqge\nthen you have to learn english.than you should try to write passage and then read it a sometime until you can change it to better
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When you study break it into chunks. example: read one paragraph at a time and take a break, and/or take a five minute break every twenty minutes.  This is a fool proof plan I know from experience.
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Say it out loud. Always helps to memorize faster. Also, take it apart and study it closely section by section. Also, study the main points since they can help build up the rest of the sentence. If you just can't memorize, you can write on your hand and look at it occasonally. ^-^
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divide what you need to study; into those you can just read through, and those you need more time to get into your head, into subjects or time/days you have...create a timetable and stick to it as much as you can because that can really help...
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write slower and practice
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Take a break for every 2hours ..let your mind relax and then start over. Relaxation could be like listening to soothing music, drink some water, take a small walk. The idea is that no one can read at a stretch, so read in intervals and reduce the heat by relaxing the mind..hope this helps
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Read.  You can pick up a lot of vocabulary from literature and poems.