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 Tips for Building Your Reading Skills -- your future depends on it
Reading is an important life skill, one that is not only important for success in school and work, but also in daily life.
College will require the reading of a lot of material, much of it challenging, and usually in a short amount of time. Following are some tips to increase reading time and help build reading skills:
- Find something that interests you and that you enjoy reading, such as a book series, a magazine, or a section of the newspaper. Read often.
- Create a reading spot. It's much easier to read if you're comfortable.
- Establish a daily reading time - lunch, before sports practice or bedtime- whatever works best for you. You might even look forward to that reading time.
- Explore all types of reading materials available. The choices are endless - sports magazines, graphic novels, how-to manuals, teen fiction and newspapers - just to name a few.
- Read a book that is coming out as a movie. Compare the two and think about what version you liked best and why.
- Follow your interests and do some research on the Internet. Read about a new band, a new car or your favorite actor.
Try reading something new. Don't just stick with your favorites. return to Walther's Virtual Guidance Office
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