Improve your reading

In my opinion the best way to improve your reading is to have a good dictionary behind the book you are going to read. Because I'm sure that there will be a lot of words which you'll probably don't know and you won't undersand the book if you don't undersand the words there are written. But that will be only the first days, you cannot read a book and look at the dictionary every minute. You have to read and while you will read you'll know what they will be talking about and there will be no importance on if you understand one word or not, you have to focus on the principal phrase.

There are different reading strategies:

Skimming is when you are reading a text quickly just to understand the main ideas

Scanning is when you have a specific point in mind and looking for it quickly in a text.

Reading for detail is when you are readint the whole text very carefully for specific information.

When you read a newspaper you skim because you are looking for the main ideas not reading all the news.

When you read a newspaper and there's a new which interest you, you would read for a detail.

And if you have a newspaper but you only want to know about sports, you would scan all the newspaper searching the sports part.

Then we have two more strategies:

PREDICTING:

Ii is when you are reading something and you can usually predict what comes next. There are many things which can help you to predict while you read:

- How much do you know about this language

- How much do you know about the topic it is talking about

-The layout

-The grammar

-The punctuation

-Etc.

and finally...

GUESSING

You can try to guess the meanings of words you don't know. Good readers depend more on themselves than on dictionaries. There are some clues that would help you to know the word:

-What the word is like

-The context

-Etc.