Learn to Read With Great Speed! by Michal Stawicki

Author:Michal Stawicki [Stawicki, Michal]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Education & Teaching, Studying & Workbooks, Study Guides, Self-Help, Time Management, 90 Minutes (44-64 Pages), Business & Money, Business Life
Amazon: B00G3EBDA8
Published: 2014-07-18T04:00:00+00:00

What you need instead, is steady movement in one direction. Always forward.

Selection

Conscious control over your attention is an important part of speed reading. Selection, paying your attention to a specific purpose, is a skill that can help you to decide if scanned text is useful for you and worth reading or not. It is especially important in the Internet era.

Selection exercises are really simple, and I love them because you can work on any text. Well, almost any – the text you practice on must be new to you.

Exercises:

- within five seconds, find a repeated word in a text. Read the text to the end, counting the occurrences of this word

- find all the articles in a text

- find all the numbers in a text

-find all the connectives in a text

- find all the verbs in a text

And you can establish your own criteria of selection. The only limit is your creativity. It all comes down to finding something in a text. You can also add a time factor to the exercises; for example, you have only 20 seconds to find all the articles on a page.

Pointer

I left the best for last. Using a pointer to read has a multitude of advantages. It helps to eliminate regression, reduce sub-vocalization, and to master your eye fixation. It is THE technique of speed reading.

Using a pointer is the most powerful and easiest way to eliminate a regression. Use the tip of your finger or a pen. Point it below the line of text and move it as you read in a sweeping motion, just like kids who learn to read. Oh, a little faster than them. You don't have to point the whole length of a line, your peripheral vision will take care of the beginnings and ends of the lines.

Reading above the speed of your usual comprehension rate with a pointer reduces sub-vocalization. Your internal voice just cannot cope with your pointer.

Pursuing the pointer with your eyesight, especially faster than you are used to reading, trains your eyes to catch chunks of sentences, not individual words.

This one simple tool may have an enormous influence on your reading skill progress.

If you read mostly on a computer screen - like me - don't worry. Use the pointer for your practice sessions and whenever you lay hands on a paper copy. The progress might not be as rapid as you wish, but there will be some progress, nonetheless. Your exercises with physical books will improve your screen reading, too.

You can also use a pointer to read from eReader devices, unless they have touch panels. But there is a work-around for such devices, too – just hover the pointer a quarter of an inch over the device. By the way, that's the way I prefer to use a pointer. I find the swish of the finger on a paper sheet a bit distracting.

My workbook encouraged me to start by sweeping the pointer every second line, and try to read two lines at a time, then to read three, four, and more, and then go to even more advanced techniques.

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