Links

Reading Improvement

This page has a list of websites for the over-achievers to go to, so that they 
can improve their excellence and be ready for high school, and even college!

Reading Skills; How to Improve


Often people feel that they read to slow. Want to get faster at 
reading, or improve your already good reading skills? This is the 
website to go! Remember, your goal is not to skim the page, but read 
the page fast and efficiently; and comprehend the material, no 
matter the difficulty level.
Speed Reading

This is a reading survey designed to figure out what kind of reader 
YOU are!
Reading Survey 

This website is exclusive; being good and bad. The good is that it 
is a great website you can use as a reference. The bad is that you 
can only try it a couple times before having to buy it. It doesn't 
cost that much if you do like it, but certainly feel free to try it 
out!
Ace Your Reading!

This website is designed for high school students to better increase 
their knowledge of reading. This will also set you ahead of the game 
in middle school, and it takes hardly any time!
Literary Strategies in High School

This is a list of books that high schools pick from for their 
reading list. Think about how ahead you would be if you started now!
List of Books

This is an official website that would help you with your reading. 
It gives you a list of noteworthy practices that would be a good 
idea.
Reading Skills by the Govt.

Here is a video to increase your reading skills.
Dartmouth Reading Improvement Video

CRITICAL READING OR CLOSE READING

READING LIKE A HISTORIAN: INTERPRETIVE QUESTIONS TO EXPLORE~

1. What claims does the author make?
2. What evidence does the author use to support those claims?
3. What words or phrases does the author use to convince me that the claim is
accurate? Use text support*
4. What information does the author leave out?
5. Setting: What events were going on at the time this novel was written?
6. What would it look like to see this event through the eyes of someone who
lived back then?
7. What was it like to be alive then and what things were different? 
things were the same?
8. What is the author's tone? What is his point of view?