In fact, for the first day or so, it may seem impossible. The trouble is that your mind has never visualized like this while reading before, so it will take effort to jump-start the visualization process. By experimenting you will find the method that works best for you. There are different ways of seeing all the words on a page using natural vision. Visualize: Have you ever read a really good book, one that was so good that you felt that you were living inside the story, or you were able to picture it in your mind so well that it was like watching a good movie? Well, that is your goal when you visualize.įigure 1. There are many different ways of seeing all the words on a page using your natural vision. Using your natural vision to see the words is the chief cornerstone of speed reading. You not only see 3 to 10 words per line, but you also see 3 to 10 lines of print at once also. With natural vision you use your whole field of vision (peripheral vision) to catch large blocks of print on a page. You need to look at a page of print with the same natural vision that we use to see a whole picture at once. Yet when we look at a page of print we have been trained to have tunnel vision. When you look at her does your vision narrow down to tunnel vision so that you see just her left eye? Of course not. Let’s just say that you’re looking at the Mona Lisa. Natural vision: Take a minute right now and look at a picture. There are four major keys to learning to speed read: This article is an abbreviated plan for teaching your kids to speed read. And no other method I am aware of allows a non-speed reader to teach it effectively. But I haven’t come across any other that is so simple. The following method for teaching kids to speed read may not be the only way to teach them. It probably has never occurred to them that children could master the speed reading skill very easily, as long as it’s presented to them in the right way.I took one speed reading course that required one hour of homework each night, much of it in the form of written notes or “recall patterns.” No kids will ever keep up with that amount of paperwork. The methods they use to teach speed reading are so rigorous that no young children could survive them.I believe they don’t promote their speed reading courses to kids for three reasons: The professionals are locking out most of their star students and only admitting their worst prospects. Older kids can get good at speed reading but they have to work harder at it. Ninety percent of my very best students were 12 and under. I’ve checked out a number of commercially available speed reading courses and they usually don’t even allow kids under 11- to 13-years of age to enroll. By the time you finish struggling through the process yourself you will be so weary that you’ll doubt that children are capable of learning it at all.
It’s at least 10 times harder for an adult to learn speed reading than it is for a child. So why can’t I just learn speed reading first, before teaching it to my kids? You can, but in my experience as an instructor, it isn’t going to happen.
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Let me repeat: The instructors did not know how to speed read themselves. Others who gave this concept the acid test had similar results. An English teacher at a local high school got two thirds of her class to catch on to speed reading within four weeks at an average speed of about 4,000 wpm. One homeschooling mother got her 11-year-old daughter to read comfortably at 12,000 words per minute (most adults read at about 250 to 300 wpm). I even tested the idea out on some school teachers and homeschoolers who gave it the acid test.
In fact, recently I made the discovery that children learn to speed read so easily that you can teach kids to speed read even if you don’t know how to speed read yourself. It literally becomes a natural part of them if they learn it by age 12 or so, just as much as speaking. Children master the skill far more completely than adults do.
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