Develop your reading speed!

Let’s look at how the speed reading techniques which are quite useful for college and university level students.

Pre-reading helps you to essentially separate the wheat from the chaff before you begin reading. This is that concept of doing a quick overview read of a document to determine what the big ideas or important concepts are. This ensures that when you go through for a speed read, you’re able to discern quickly which part is important and which part is not.

When you consider your reading materials, you ensure that you speed read the proper documents. As we discussed in this lesson, not all reading materials are appropriate for speed reading techniques. Before you begin speed reading anything, you should ensure that the material is appropriate for speed reading. Some examples of material that aren’t appropriate for speed reading include anything that you read for pleasure.

Re-reading is a concept that many of us employ when we read normally, but experts have discovered that re-reading serves no real purpose, and if you employ speed reading techniques properly you will have no reason to re-read your document. So learning to discontinue re-reading can help you to increase your reading speed.

Subvocalizing can greatly cut into your reading speed. It’s important to learn to stop subvocalizing, because that little voice that reads the words to you in your head, or the mouth that moves with the words, greatly slows down your reading speed. When you learn to stop subvocalizing and just use your eyes to connect with the words, you greatly increase your reading speed.

Reading with your hand helps you to train your eyes to move left to right as quickly as your finger can. If you get very good at speed reading you might be able to keep up with your finger even when it moves very quickly over a line of text, but the goal is to increase your reading speed by training your eyes to follow that finger as it moves under a line of text. If you move your finger just slightly faster than you think you can read, you’ll challenge your eyes and your mind to keep up and this will increase your reading speed as well.

Reading blocks of text instead of reading word-by-word ensures that you not only read text quickly, but that you comprehend that text as well. While most of us learned to read word-by-word or sentence-by-sentence, reading blocks of text helps us to instead focus on the main picture and not the specific words or sentences.

Tuning out distractions is essential if you’re going to increase your reading speed. Speed readers know that they must provide themselves with a quiet space, or fabricate a quiet space if they aren’t in one. This means learning to mentally tune out distractions, but also make use of things that might help you do that, like ear plugs.

We wish you luck on your speed reading journey. May the speed be with you.

source: http://howtoreadfaster101.com/lesson-ten-put-it-all-together/