Tips to Improve Your Reading Skills
Learn how to improve your English reading skills with these tips to help you prepare for the TOEFL iBT® test and university study. Read in English as much and as often as you can. Read texts on a variety of topics. Read both academic and non-academic materials. Read about subjects that interest you and about subjects that don't interest you. Write basic questions to test your understanding of a text. Write questions and answers about the first paragraph, then guess what might be discussed in the next paragraph. Use your knowledge of grammar to understand difficult sections of a passage. Think carefully about the relationship between independent and dependent clauses. Look for words that refer back to some information given in a previous section of the text. Look at pronouns and find the nouns that they refer to. Look at relative pronouns (who, that, which, whom, whose) used in adjective clauses — for example, "The student whose classmates are taking the TOEFL® test …" and...