What type of a reader am I?

 Strategies that I currently use for reading:

I am a reader who likes to take it slow rather than skimming through texts. I can read about 4 non-fictional text pages in half an hour as I analyze and annotate as I read to ensure that I fully understand the text before moving on.

I make use of my different coloured highligters to highlight different points such as one regarding to females, one for males, and one for a general opinion/theory.

As soon as I come across a word I don't know, I like to find out its definition in a dictionary. I find that writing notes help as well, as I do it in History. Writing notes help to slow down my reading process and to reduce the information to something concise and understandable to me.

For a non-fictional text, I do a lot of annotations as it helps me analyze the text better. I would also prepare a big glass/bottle of water. Sometimes, eating sweets help as well because I tend to need to snack when I begin to lose my concentration.

I recognize that my environment plays a very important role as I get distracted very easily. I have to be in a quiet, conducive place, preferably with nobody around and is a comfortable lounge area. Lighting is also very important as when it is dim, I lose concentration easily. Strangely, when I read from my phone when all lights are out, I find that to be very good as I assume the light from the phone and nowhere else makes me concentrate on the text on my phone.

I also try to make connections in my reading from texts to texts or even texts to real life to help them to relate better hence understanding better.

Strategies that I would like to try over the next few weeks:

I would like to pay attention to punctuations in long sentences to help me break down sentences into easier sizes for comprehension.

Over the next week, I will try this strategy in particular:

I will pay more attention to punctuation and get most of my reading done during prep time (7:00-8:30 p.m.) as it is the most quiet time.