Reading Strengths

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You ever wonder what your strengths and weaknesses are when it comes to reading? Well I know I do and I also know that one of the most important major parts of my reading process that I want to improve is being able to read to comprehend what I’ve just read. I don’t just want to read, I want to read to understand what I’ve just read because what the point of just sounding out letters together in order to form words? So why is this so important yet very beneficial to me to improve? Simple this is very important for me to learn in order for me to be able to survive college, knowing college is mostly about reading what would be the point of doing all this reading and not understand anything, it would be of no help to me. I need to comprehend what

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