What are some solid techniques that will help increase reading comprehension as well as increase overall speed?
As a former librarian, a former French teacher, and a member of a family filled with attention-deficit adults, perhaps my vantage point on this is unique. I’m glad to see if I can help. Before specific techniques, some background comments: There are varying levels of reading comprehension, and you don’t need to aim for 100% on everything you read, a kind of perfectionism which might be slowing you down. Likewise, you don’t need to read every book cover-to-cover to get your optimum benefit. Sometimes with a novel I’ll skim entire chapters if I’m pretty sure I can see where things are headed, because to reach my goal of enjoyment and enrichment I may only need 75% comprehension. And with many non-fiction and self-help or self-instruction books it won’t hurt anything to read only the chapters of interest. If you’re feeling obligated to murder through an uninteresting chapter in order to reach the next one, your focus and comprehension–and motivation–will suffer. It can be very freeing t
