Reading in the target language should be an integral part of your language learning journey - and it should be one that never ends as life long language learners.  The importance of reading cannot be overstated.  However, if you pay attention to how you read in English (or your native language) you will notice that you do not read every letter, but rather skim through each sentence taking in whole chunks of letters at a time and easily connecting these chunks to words and expressions.  Our brains are quite amazing this way.  For example:  I tihnk the bairn is rlelay azmanig! Eevn tihs snectene is radebale.  Could you read that?  If your a native English speaker you probably could - I think the brain is really amazing.  Even this sentence is readable.  When we begin to read then in our target language, our brain, which is trained to take in chunks, will continue its ingrained habit and skip right along through the text - especially as we advance in our knowledge of the language.  I find that when I read in Turkish this happens a lot - even skipping through new words or long pesky words that I really cannot pronounce well.  Taking the time to read out loud then forces your brain out of its old habits and into pronouncing each and every syllable - the way we would if we were speaking.  This is a good way to "train" your tongue and your mind to work together with the new rhythms, intonations and sounds of the language.  It will slow your reading down - but done in chunks of 10 - 15 minutes a day,  "read aloud" time will be a a great tool to improve your overall fluidity in reading aloud, as well as to improve your general speaking ability.  Give it a try for a week and let me know how it goes.