Reading fast is very important. It’s important for getting information and understanding things, but it’s also important for learning English. Here is a list of advantages:

1. If you read fast, you can read more and get more information. This is especially important if you want to study overseas.
2. If you read fast, you can understand better, because you can remember the beginning when you get to the end (so you can understand the whole meaning).
3. If you read more, you get more language input, and more language input means you learn more words and sentence patterns.

Probably the best way to learn to read better is to read many books. But it’s also good to practice speed reading, too. Here is a good site to help you. (This was mentioned in a student’s post, but I’m afraid I don’t know whose.) To start, I would recommend the following settings: 3, 0.4, 0.25. This is slightly faster than the average American college student’s reading speed.

If it feels much too fast, try again, but make it even faster! Then move the speed down to the original one and try again. What words can you remember? If that is much too fast, try a slower speed but not a comfortable one!.