What Are Effective Ways to Read in English? Learn 3 Ways!

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English with Jennifer


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Um, three other kinds of  reading that I think are good  
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are...the first one is called intensive reading,  which is reading for language study -- where you  
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focus on, uh, structure in the text, comprehension  questions. So, you're focusing on language and we  
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call that intensive reading, and that's important  and and needs to be done. Another kind of reading  
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that Paul Nation also recommends is called fluency  reading or speed reading. So, you choose a really  
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easy text. You try to read for speed, and you  measure your reading speed, and then you might  
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do a few comprehension questions to make sure that  you get it. But your goal on fluency reading is to  
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improve your reading speed. And then my favorite  way is big...I call it big, easy reading or big,  
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fun reading. And that's extensive reading, where  you read lots and lots of easy texts for pleasure.
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