After that is monitoring your progress. Good readers monitor their progress, often by keeping a pencil at hand while they read to mark significant or favorite passages and to write questions or connections in the margins. This practice of "reading with a pencil" is a good habit to develop as it will help you to assess your comprehension more honestly. You can begin by turning all the headlines and titles of the piece into questions and your reading then becomes a search for answers. In addition, you can monitor your progress by asking yourself questions as you read, by noting words you don't understand, and by underlining ideas you like or respond in some way.


之后要监督自己的阅读进度。好的读者常常会放支笔在身边，对重要的或者喜欢的文章做些记号，并且在文章的边缘写下问题或者与文章相联系的内容来监督自己的阅读进度。这种“带笔阅读”是一个很好的习惯，因为它有助于你真实地理解文章。你可以先把文章的标题和题目当成问题，然后在阅读过程中找答案。除此之外，你还可以通过边阅读边提问，记下不懂的词语，以及划出自己喜欢的思想句子又或是其他方式来监督你的阅读进度。