Reading Skills

Increasing your vocabulary and knowledge of prefixes, roots, and suffixes can help you improve word recognition and understanding for better reading fluency.

Increasing your reading speed and comprehension means improved fluency, which makes reading and understanding difficult texts much easier.

When you decode text, you use phonetics to sound out and identify words. By understanding how a letter or groups of letter sound, it makes it easier to recognise the word you're reading.

Understanding how sentences, paragraphs, stories, and articles are structured can help you find and understand the most important information they contain.

The ability to analyze and think more about what you read helps you make connections to the text, which can increase your reading comprehension and critical thinking skills.

You can improve your ability to remember (retain) what you read by taking notes, rereading, talking about, and making connections from the text to the real world.