How can an educated adult improve his reading and reading comprehension skills?

Answer 1

Keep a dictionary close at hand, look up all words that are unfamiliar or seem to be being used in an unfamiliar way.
Try to increase your vocabulary daily---here's a new word for you--- ylem --- go and look it up.
Read the classics ---- start with Anthony Trollope.

Answer 2

When I was in the sixth grade I took a test that showed I was three and more years behind in various reading skills. My parents were very angry and concerned. I read as much as I could, with a dictionary at my side, and in the eighth grade my scores were so high some were untestable. I also believe in taking notes on what I read to develop writing skills. Usually I write out quotes after I read it, that way I go over the material again. I read very little, actually no, fiction in that time. I read fiction in highschool and college, but I don't think that is important. Notes on fiction should be things like characters and places and relationships of characters. Also, after reading think of a theme and then check it out through cliff notes or reviews,

Answer 3

Just keep practicing because you want to, not because you have to. You'll accomplish something with more easiness and success if you enjoy what you're doing. If you don't like it, then change your thoughts so that you do like it. Think your way into believing something. How?

I'll let the quotes of a favorite 8th grade teacher answer that: "Just do it -- it is what you need." And "If you have a challenge, deal with it, learn from it, grow stronger for it, and move on..."

Answer 4

Do much reading and after do research on what you read. That helps your reading and that research hepls your comprehension.