Reading is not a difficult task especially if you have the general knowledge on how to read effectively. However, there comes a time when you may be presented with a difficult passage or book to read, and having only the primary reading knowledge may not be very helpful here.
When reading difficult material, one has to find other ways that they can use to better understand whatever it is that they have to read. Comprehension when reading is very important as it is the essence of one reading. Depending on the reason one has in reading a particular article, book or passage, any individual should be able to know what the context entails.
The reading culture has been common since time immemorial and the skills involved here is a basic requirement in most learning institutions. In such cases, learning how to read difficult texts is a must, since it is inevitable that at one point, one will have to engage in this type of reading. There are many things that one can do to tackle any reading assignment with much ease. These tips may be done alone, or they can be incorporated in reading a particular text.
The first thing that any individual should do is to get a feel of how the work has been organized. Reading the table of contents of a book or passage ensures that the reader has a general knowledge of what is contained in the texts. This way the reader may know what to expect from the text beforehand. Additionally, if the text does not give the reader much information on the contents they can seek for further information from other sources.
Another way of trying to understand a difficult text would be to look for the main ideas before reading the text. This can be seen in titles used, headings that can be found inside the passages and any diagrams, graphs or charts that one can find inside the passage. Although these may not give the reader a comprehensive guide to the passages context, it will help to understand where the text is leading to.
While reading, it is good to look up that that do not seem to make sense even when the reader is trying to make out it's meaning from the way it has been used in the context. This may be one way that the reader can better understand the text. In the process of reading, it is advised that reader monitors his/her level of comprehension once in a while. Reading a difficult text is not like reading a novel, therefore, the reader should stop and ask themselves what they have learned from the passage that they have read. And, they need to connect their understanding with what they have already found out from other passages of the same text. If an idea is hard to comprehend, the reader has to go back and read it again, and if possible use their own words to make out meaning in the text. The text has to be read to the very end.
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