Speed Reading Exercises: Two Powerful Speed Reading
Exercises
Speed reading is all about breaking out of the old habits we have become accustomed to when we were children and just starting out to learn how to read. Over the years, we have become use to reading word by word and while this was good when we were first starting out to learn how to pronounce and comprehend each word in it's written form, it is by all means not the most efficient way to read. In this article, I am going to provide you with two speed reading exercises that have helped me learn how to speed read.
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For this first exercise, you will be focusing on improving
your speed. Find some sort of timer or stopwatch and a book that is easy to read. Either use your index finger or a pen, and point to the words as you read them. Try and move your finger faster, establishing a smooth rhythm to your reading. While you are doing this, make an effort to take in more than one word at a time. After you have finished the first page stop and check the timer and see how long it took you to read it. Keep practicing this and see if you can improve your timing.
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This next exercise will help improve your comprehension as well as speed. By practicing to read larger blocks of words at a time. Take an index card and practice reading three lines at a time for five minutes.
There you have it folks, these are two time-tested exercises for speed reading. If you keep practicing this, you will find that you can read through pages much quicker and also remember and comprehend what you just read as well.
Everyone would like to be able to read faster, reading is something that we all have to do everyday for the rest of our lives. Whether it be our favorite novels, studying text books for school, or even the morning newspaper. Considering all this, it is only natural we would want to become better at it. Learning how to speed read, is a valuable skill asset well worth taking the time to pursue. The good new is, it doesn't have to take much time at all! In only nine days spending about ten minutes each day I was able to start reading at 1,000 words per minute using the simple and effective techniques .If your trying to learn how to speed read,
don't make it harder than it has to be!