Speed Reading for Professionals

Welcome!

Wise Lesson

• Speed reading– Need of discipline!

• 4 weeks

– Combination• Vitality• Best belief• Best strategies• Knowledge of primewords• Knowledge of text structure• Wide peripheral vision• Eye strength exercises• Best memorizing techniques• Great visual notation skills

Average Learning Targets

• Improving reading speed• Comprehension of text• Learning skills• Get over avalanche of information• Memorising• Concentration and Focus• Creative Thinking• Notation techniques• Posture while reading and learning• Improving analytical skills• Motivation to read and learn• Improving timetable• Assimilation of information• Fighting Obselescence• Poor beliefs about your reading and learning skills

• What is your target point?

Speed Read Test① Zero Measurement

a) Reading Speedb) Comprehensionc) Effective Reading Capacity

② Reada) Optimal speedb) Optimal comprehension

③ Give a sign when ready!

④ Answer 12 questions

⑤ Calculate score

Learning to Read

• Most People– See and say method– Ape – Bear

– Pronounce Method• Speak out characters: a – b – c…• Learn words afterwards

Disadvantages

• You’re reading with your ears

• Your talking speed = your reading speed

• Your brain gets words at a time miss context

• Realy Tiring– You See 1500 words a minute– You Read 240 words a minute– Gap 1300 words a minute– Result Bad concentration Poor

comprehension

History Speed Reading

• Airforce– World War ll

• Many pilots killed• Development flash system• Result

– Fast ey coordination– Flexible eye muscles– Less crashes

– Evelyn Wood & Richard Sutz• Pace movement• Hand & Eye coordination

Disadvantages Conventional Reading

1. Subvocalisation• Low speed

2. Low speed • Bad concentration • Focus on everything

3. Words Short memory• 16 seconds …information = gone!

4. No coordination1. Search over and over again2. Seperate words no connection bad association

– no recollection!3. Reading over and over again 4 – 6 times

5. Less Association• No repetition or too much repetition• No sensorial reading• Use of left brain instead of both brain compartements

6. Fixation• Unknown words• Little group of words jump and fixate• 3 x while reading a line

7. Negative beliefs• I’m stupid• Everything has to be perfect• Everything has to go easy• Bad results in reading and learning

8. Reading without rhythm• Fixation and jumping forwards and backwards • Disturbs Rhythm• Rhythm enables high speed reading

So…?

• What do you need to do?

• Master Read System

10 steps1. Motivate before reading

• Not motivated Trigger yourself with Reversed Questions• What’s exactly boring about this text?• Which phrases would I definitly approach

different?

2. Visual Eye Sight• Read groups of words instead single words• > Comprehension• > Speed up!

1. Vocalise = 3 words a second2. See> 25 words a second!

3. Breath towards your belly button• Alpha state• Ultimate learning state• Relax!

4. Posture• Straight• 24 inches of reading material

• = overview and relax the eyes• Most people straight into …

• Angle 45o

5. Preview– Scan and skim text

• Where important information?• What indoemtion do and don’t I read?• Where do I speed up/ down?

5. Ask questions to activate RAS– Target: gives you focus

• Questions stimulate RAS

7. Determine reading modus and route– Reading route: in which order do you read?– Reading modus: which technique do you use?

8. Read with pointer7. Focus8. Optimal eye hand coordination9. Consistent rhythm10.Head still and eyes follow11.Peripheral eye sight12.Increase tempo improve focus13.Shorten your reading movement

9. Mark prime words– What’s really important?– Summarize own words– Visualise

• BOAS• Use all your senses

– Transport prime words in mind map

9. Relax and communicate what you’ve read!

Eye Hand Movement

2 Methods:

① Reader’s Edge Warming Up!② Eye Hand Coordination Exercises

① Horizontal② Vertical③ Circle④ Diamond Exercise⑤ Usable Reading⑥ Width Exercises

Lets Practice• Move pointer horizontal right to left• Do not move head only eye movement

Another go!

Diamond Exercise

• Practice on paper• Posture straight• Distance 24 inches• Angle 45 degrees• Move pointer with Z-movement on

squared paper• Consistent rhythm • Keep contact with paper• Focus on squares behind pointer• Practice 40 lines 2 x!

Practical Exercise

• Exercise on a book!– What went good?– What did you notice while

reading?– What’s the difficult part?

Scan and skim!

• Scan– Specific information

• Skim– Structure

• Signal words• Titles• Writing style author• Prime words• Oversight• Lay out

• Gaining 30% time

Use of Hand as pacer

• Z

• S through middle

• Big Curve

• Big S

Exercise l

• Scan and Skim Reading

• Search:– Words

• Page x

– Number• Page y

Exercise ll

• Reading Book

• Scan and skim 5 minutes

• Tell us– Content?– Type of text– Which questions do you have?– Lay out

• Mind map!

Memorising Techniques

• Purpose: production dendrites– Number connection determines

working speed brain• 10 - 12 dendrieten• 10 - 800 connections possible

– Use it or you lose it…– Better memorising capability

Basic and Advanced

• Jost’s Law• BOAS• Register• Mark

• Travel System• Associate• Consideration and Substitution

Exercise l

• Travel System

• Linear

• Chronological sequence

• Visualise the story

Exercise ll

• Association– Close eyes– Convert word into image– Try to see it internal eye– Connect and associate– Create a unique connection– Visualise– Use all senses

• Word List 100!!!

Exercise lll

• Consideration and substitution– Recognition on higher brain level– Something which does not exist in

the real world– Make it real by converting the

phonetic sound of a word into your brain recognises

– Visualise– BOAS

Logical System

• One – sun

• Two – legs…

Pacer Movement

• 20% Central Vision

• 80% Peripheral Vision

Pacer Movement

• Change way you look• Fixationpoint behind the book

– Focus white space between text

– Corners of the page

– Dream Vision

– Guide eye with pointer

– Head still, eyes follow text behind pointer

– Relax at all times

• Tambourine Exercise

Pacer Movements

• Z movement• Backwards• 2 lines at a time• S movement• Horizontal Bow• Cursive Bow• Middle movement• Column Text movement

Pacer Movement

• Every Pacer Movement!

• 10 minutes practice

• What goed well and what can you improve right now?

Flash Exercise

• To build trust

Speed Drills

• Read in books– Metronome Tempo Up!– 5,4,3,2,1 Read again on tempo

2– Metronome Tempo ultra high

Down– And lots more!!!!

PAP

• 4 weeks practice

• 10 minutes a day

• Results:– Speed > 800 words a minute– Comprehension 80/ 90 %– More fun at reading– Better use brain– Overcome overload information

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