How to become an independent reader with Scanmarker Reader

If you are looking to improve your reading skills, the Scanmarker Reader platform walks you through exactly what you need to do so you can be an independent reader.

Reading is an essential skill in our daily lives. Becoming an independent reader takes practice, but you can become a better reader with the right steps. 

Importing text is now easier than ever, either by copy-paste from a digital source, importing a file (pdf, jpeg, or word), or just taking notes from printed text with Scanmarker Pen Reader.

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1. Develop Your Vocabulary: Building a robust vocabulary base is one of the most important aspects of becoming an independent reader. Increase your knowledge of words by looking up new words in the dictionary while reading text and using context clues to understand them within their sentences or paragraphs. Scanmarker dictionary is a rich source of information.

2. Practice Reading Comprehension: For reading comprehension, readers can activate the assistive features of the Scanmarker platform, improving their learning experience by adjusting text size, text colour, adjusting word and line spacing, and changing the text background. 

All these features help readers decode and understand better the reading text.

Scan and save text and excerpts from textbooks and practice reading multiple different passages from varying sources and additionally complete comprehension exercises such as true or false questions, filling out missing words, or multiple choice questions. This will help you become more familiar with sentence structure and gain a better understanding of the overall passage. Reading comprehension with Scanmarker is fun and easy. Check our worksheet inspiration here. 

3. Take Notes: Taking notes while you read is helpful when you want to go back and refer to something later on—jotting down ideas, thoughts, or connections between topics that you notice will make your reading easier in the future if needed. Add notes with speak to text feature where you can just dictate notes to your text.

5. Create a Routine: Setting up a routine for yourself is important to increase productivity and establish good reading habits. Carve out time every day when you are devoted to only reading and have it become part of your daily schedule until it becomes second nature. 
6. Re-read What You Have Written: After completing a piece, re-read what you have written and review any errors that need to be corrected to be easily understood by others. 
7. When scanning text with Scanmarker Reader use our ruler for focus reading and scanning motion stability.
8. Pick up and use SCANMARKER platform in multi devices from mobile, laptop, tablet or computer.

Following these steps will allow you to gradually develop into an independent reader with increased understanding and better comprehension skills, which can lead to many professional and personal benefits.

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