A lot of students ask me how they can improve their reading skills. They typically say that they read a lot, but it's very slow, and they just don't seem to get better at it. Most of these students always read in the same way in English - slowly, and with a dictionary in the other hand for the words they don't know. This is actually quite bad for your reading skills, but more on that later...
What I tell these students is that they need to practise reading in different ways, to get better at different reading skills. In particular, they need to practise Fast Reading and Slow Reading techniques.