To Become a More Fluent Reader--Pirlo and Peter

To Become a More Fluent Reader

       Reading skill is one of the most important skills for learning English. Students can get a great deal of knowledge by reading books. For example, when students want to write research paper, they need to read some sources for finding their support ideas. If the students can understand some sources, they will write out a good research paper because they do not have any strong points. This means there is a relationship between reading and writing, they can be separated. Therefore, reading occupies a crucial position in study.

       In reading these days, we found out several problems about reading. First, sometimes, we know the words’ meaning, but when the words in the sentences, we could not understand the whole sentences’ meaning. Second, some words have some different meanings; sometime, when we read a sentence, we did not which meaning of the word is suitable in this sentence. Next, after we read some article, we could not understand the whole context, such as “Krispy Kreme’s Unlikely Comeback”. Fourth, we did not some words’ meanings; we need to look up dictionary. Furthermore, our reading speed is slow; for some long articles, we need a long time to read them. In short, reading is very difficult for us; we need to find out some solutions to improve our reading skill.

       We think these ten ways can help students to be fluent reader. First, remembering more academic and useful words can make students to understand the article more clearly. Second, reading more articles can improve students’ read speed. Third, using English to English dictionary can let students know some words’ exact meanings. Fourth, to learn more for foreign culture can help students to understand the articles’ backgrounds; and know the background of an article is very helpful for students to understand it. Fifth, using some suitable reading skills can improve the efficiency of reading, such as skimming and scanning.  Sixth, cooperate with your partner if it is possible, cooperate can help reading fast and overcome the difficult point. Seventh, know the purpose of reading. If the article is for test, skim the article and find out answers of the questions; if the article is reading for fun, try to know and remember new words to expand vocabulary. Eighth, guess or ignore the unfamiliar words in exam reading. The unfamiliar words will slow down the reading speed, if it is impossible to guess the meaning of the word, just leave it and keep on the reading. Ninth, made high-frequency word list and read it every day. It can help improve reading fluency when these words appeared. Tenth, try to read an article or an essay in a limited time. It can help improve the fast reading ability. The limit time can be reduced when the reading is getting fluent.

          The most import three points for our group is build vocabulary, reading skills and reading purpose. The vocabulary can effectively improve our reading fluency. We can know the sentence or whole article’s meaning better if we knew more words. The reading skill is important because the right reading skill can help us read fast and catch the key point of the article. It is very useful during exam reading. The purpose is the basic point of reading an article. The reading skills we choose are based on our reading purpose. We must combine other skills together to reach the reading purpose. 

For the further reading:
http://www.readingrockets.org/article/27176/
http://specialed.about.com/od/readingliteracy/a/7tipsforreadingfluency.htm