7 important steps of reading

Reading is multilevel process. Most of people think of reading as a process of understanding what the author intended. But the process must be more splayed as it has got lot of common associated problems with it like fear, back skipping, laziness and  impatience etc.

               Process of recognizing the print is Recognition indeed. It begins even before the physical reading process begins. This holds the first place in the reading process.

To improve you reading speed, you should let yourself recognize words. Just see them. You should never pronounce them silently inside your head. Sub vocalization should only be used at times when extensive comprehension is desired. 

                                                                                                                                                            

               Process where light reflected from words on the page goes into your eyes and then through your eyes, to optic nerves and finally through your optic nerves to your brain.

    

         It is equivalent to basic Comprehension of the subject matter where you begin to understand what the author is talking about. Most of us think this is the actual reading.

                                                                                            

       Previous knowledge and what you are learning right now interact with each other in this process. It includes criticism of the subject matter, Appreciation, selection or rejection of the material is also included in this stage of reading. 

         

It is the process where the information that you have read gets stored in your head. Only having this ability is not enough as most of us face that situation where we know everything but still can’t recall a clear word from the memory. So retention must be accompanied with Recall.

                                                                                                                                                      

                The ability of the person to take out the stored information from his/her brain, not literally of course

          

Communication includes thinking, writing or speaking or any representational use in which the knowledge is put to immediately or eventually.

If you were to improve your reading speed then you may find that all of the above processes are improving simultaneously. Next article is about improving your reading speed by improving in all the above 7 process. It is titled as- 7 Easy ways to rapidly increase your reading speed.