"This book--for junior and senior high school students--asks students meaningful questions about their reading preferences and difficulties and helps them discover what type of reader they are and how to improve overall comprehension. Guided by the author, who is an experienced teacher, students will gain important and useful techniques and exercises to learn how to read with ease, and to comprehend what they are reading. Most important, they discover how to transform a once-arduous task into a pleasurable experience"-- Source other than Library of Congress.

Includes index.

Reading attitudes and pattens -- Preparations for reading -- Your reading voices -- Decoding versus reading -- Keeping what you read in your head -- Different types of reading -- Reading strategies -- Books, books, and more books -- Further reading for teachers and parents.