More Information on Learning to Be a Better Reader
Reading about reading strategies and ways to improve reading comprehension won't, by itself, make you a better reader. We encourage you to practice the strategies suggested here with actual reading from your coursework, to try the strategies more than once before you decide whether they work for you and which kinds of reading you will use them for, and to develop your own repertoire, a toolbox of reading strategies that work for you and that you can choose from when facing a reading task.
Reading strategies are ways to be strategic when you read. Reading strategically means to make conscious, careful decisions about the ways you read, and the ways that you think while you read. To use reading strategies effectively, you have to do more than just learning the strategies, you have to make decisions about when and where to use them. Here are some ideas, but remember: what works for one person in one situation won't necessarily be effective for someone else.
