How to Read Slowly

Reading for Comprehension



Your eyes see the words. but do you read what you see?


Every article. poem. book, even every printed advertisement not only carries information but also projects a way of looking at life. In How to Read a Book Slowly, James Sire helps readers detect not only what writers say but what lies behind what they say.


The careful reading of any book requires that we seek out the author's standpoint. What is this author's larger philosophical commitment? What does he or she think life is about? Any book, fiction or prose, should be sifted, probed, and its world-view exposed. Slowing down will increase our comprehension.


How to Read Slowly, now in its third edition, has been widely used in higher education classrooms to teach reading comprehension.


“Sire goes beyond Adler by addressing distinctively Christian questions in searching for assumptions and worldviews. This treatment focuses on reading diferent genres of literature: nonfiction, novels, poetry, etc.""