Thursday, 10 October 2013

How To Read Faster And Comprehend More

By Terry H. Chavez


Reading is very important since it helps to enrich everyone in all aspects of life. When you are reading for pleasure, savoring every phrase or word slowly will enable you to truly appreciate the author's writing craft. However, there are times when faster and effective reading will be required. In this case, learning speed reading techniques will help you to bypass the rhetoric phrases and get only the most important details and facts. The information below will share some helpful suggestions on how to read fast and effectively.

Before going further, you should know that reading faster can be really useful in many areas of your life. But, you can only enjoy those benefits if your reading speed is complemented by the same level of understanding.

Woods found that using her hand as a pacer, whilst turning the pages, she was able to increase her reading speed. It was from these results, that Evelyn Woods created her speed reading program; Reading Dynamics.

How to Increase Comprehension Rate Whilst Speed Reading There are several useful techniques you can apply without purchasing a speed reading software. Through practice, it is possible to read faster whilst increasing your comprehension rate. Some of these techniques include getting rid of any bad habits that you have acquired whilst growing up, such as sub vocalization and skimming. Sub vocalization is the internal speech a reader tends to imagine when reading out a word. Many readers tend to have this habit in order to imagine the sound of the word. However, in reality sub vocalization reduces reading speed greatly. Eliminating this bad habit from your daily reading would greatly increase your reading speed. Obviously, reading the words out loud would have dire consequences on your reading speed as well. Skimming should be avoided to increase comprehension rate.

Broaden your sight angle: Speed reading will require you to broaden your sight angle when looking at a sentence. Mastering this technique will make it easier for you to glance over a body of text once and still get to read three or more words. In addition, scanning and skimming will become easy. Using these techniques will help you to read and comprehend most of the text a lot quicker. Keep in mind that speed reading exercises are very important when you want to develop a fast reading habit.

Here is an important tip to remember when learning how to read fast.You should never vocalize or sub-vocalize as these two actions will prevent you from improving your comprehension and reading speed. Vocalizing is reading out loud or moving your lips to match words while reading. Sub-vocalizing is when you are trying to pronounce the words in your mind. Once you look at the material as something that you should understand instead of pronounce, your comprehension and reading skills will improve for the better.

Preparing your mind for what you about to read ensures that you increase your comprehension rate. Possibly scanning the index or the summary of the text would give you an idea of what you are about to read. Moreover, if you are supposed to answer a question, make sure you have read the question thoroughly so that you know which information to search for in the text.




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