You may wonder about the relationship between reading speed and reading comprehension. In the first place, this is of course useless to read rapidly but without needed comprehension. It is not desired to read with complete comprehension but in a slow speed. You should aim at a comfor table balance between the two. In the second place, at the first you may not think that reading comprehension suffers from a rapid reading speed. As you read faster, you may find that you understand little.Continued practice, however, will improve your comprehension as well as your speed. Instead reading individual words, you will be taking meaningful units of ideas. In the third place, there is not one best reading speed. The good reader changes his speed according to the material he is reading and the kind of comprehension he desire. Generally, you can reada novel faster than you can read a textbook. Even though in a text book,there is some material that can be read faster than other material.There fore change your speed according to the difficult of the reading material and the degree of comprehension required.
