You Can Improve Your Reading Skills - in 5 Easy Steps
Someone on Facebook said he wanted to quit his job bagging groceries, and get a better job. He knew this meant he must increase his skills, which requires reading, but he's not that good at it.
This inspired me to make this list:
(1) Read things that you're really into, from rap lyrics to books on basketball and football, written by players, coaches, fans, news reporters.
(2) Keep a good dictionary at your side and look up every word you don't know as you read.
(3) Realize the subversive nature of this activity. Reading and writing were feared by ancient kings. In the old days, people memorized large texts. Word of mouth ruled. Writing and printing words was considered revolutionary, anarchist, threatening.
(4) Once in a while, read something way too hard to understand, and try to force yourself to learn a little something. Stretch the mind -- and see reading as fun and needed to increase income.
(1) Read things that you're really into, from rap lyrics to books on basketball and football, written by players, coaches, fans, news reporters.
(2) Keep a good dictionary at your side and look up every word you don't know as you read.
(3) Realize the subversive nature of this activity. Reading and writing were feared by ancient kings. In the old days, people memorized large texts. Word of mouth ruled. Writing and printing words was considered revolutionary, anarchist, threatening.
(4) Once in a while, read something way too hard to understand, and try to force yourself to learn a little something. Stretch the mind -- and see reading as fun and needed to increase income.
(5) Read your favorite books and blogs in a comfortable place, where you feel happy, safe and private. Concentrate your mind and enter the magical world of literature. Keep rising higher and higher in difficulty, which is making you smarter.
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