Reading Comprehension Strategies for Adults: 9 Evidence-Based Techniques | Chapterly Blog
Reading Comprehension Strategies for Adults: 9 Evidence-Based Techniques Quick answer: The fastest way to improve reading comprehension is to stop reading passively and start generating your own explanations of the material. After every few pages, close the book and explain what you just read in your own words. If you cannot, that gap is the most useful information you will encounter all day. The nine strategies below build on this principle with increasing depth. Most reading comprehension advice is written for children or struggling readers. It assumes you have trouble decoding words or lack basic fluency. That is not your problem. You can read perfectly well. The sentences make sense as you encounter them. But somewhere between reading a chapter and trying to use the ideas, something breaks down. You finish a section of a business book and feel like you understood it, then someone asks you to summarize the key argument and your mind goes blank. You read a dense article on economics or neuroscience and follow each paragraph, but the overall thesis remains fuzzy. This is a comprehension problem, not a fluency problem. And it is far more common among educated adults than most people realize. A 2013...