Tips Speed Reading
Once you've mastered it, it's a skill that will stick with you for the rest of your life. Then something clicked and you began to recognize words without having to sound out each letter one at a time and you graduated to word-by-word reading. For many it's a necessary tool for managing time and information in the fast-paced business world, and for many others, specifically students, it's the only way to get through reading-heavy class loads. For example, if you are a slow reader, factors that hold you back may include, but are not limited to, moving your lips or reading out loud or holding the text too close to your eyes. As a child, when you began to learn to read, chances are you began with the alphabet and the specific sounds each letter makes. With continued practice common words and sentence structure became more familiar and because your brain was tuned and ready, your eye started taking in blocks of words at a time..Speed reading is not just a parlor trick you can use to impress your friends and family. In effect, you're keeping yourself at that word-by-word stage that children generally grow out of in elementary school. Implementing some simple techniques can get you reading faster and more efficiently in no time at all. You should be able to read at least two or three times faster than you can speak. The practiced speed reader can pick up a lengthy document or a thick stack of papers and use their skill to get at the meat of the subject by skimming for the most important details and information. It's called letter-by-letter reading. Speed reading teaches you how to take your reading and your comprehension to the next level. The key to successful speed reading is increasing your understanding of the text as you increase the rate at which you understand what you're reading. If you are in the practice of moving your lips, or speaking or whispering while you read, you're slowing yourself down dramatically. The techniques used in teaching speed reading focus on your individual abilities, namely where you
