Tips For Speed Reading

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The training of the eyes
The requirement of speed reading is very strict to the eyes. It is even harsh. Because speed reading is read by sentence, line and passages. So it is necessary to have a series of related training of eyes. Otherwise you may encounter great obstacles in the starting phase. Training eyes seriously is the foundation of the speed reading. It mainly includes some aspects.
The training of eyes’ flexibility which includes up and down movement, the control action, clockwise and counter clockwise.
The purpose of training of concentration is to seize the text messages effectively at the moment of eye ground to a halt. The method is very simple. Draw a black dot on a piece of white paper. The size of the dot is as a character. Then look at it. The distance of the eyes and the figure is about 40 centimeters. Look at the figure for about a minute. Do not blink as far as possible. Switch to a small black spot to continue training when you can look at the black dot unblinkingly.
Find one page which has about thirty-two words. The size of words are as large as possible. View from the beginning ...
... of the word in each row jumping out at the end of the word in a row. Look one page of book every time. The head can't follow the eyes movements during exercise. Practice one minute at a time.
Choose the same book as the last step. View from the word at the end of each row quickly jumping to the next line at the beginning of words. The rest of the method is as same as the previous step.
A viewpoint flexibility exercise is the basis of face reading. Such as eight movement, serpentine scanning movement, etc. You can draw some to practice. The eyes flowing must be free.
Expand the sight reading wild is to use corner of the eye to see. This is the most difficult step in the eyes training. The request is to fix at the center of the sentence in a sentence reading.
The training of silent reading
Silent reading is to be silent mind when reading, not even one or two word pronunciation. There is no desire to pronounce in mind while reading. But you can understand the article. It is often said visual understanding. Only the silent reading is good, the fast reading is possible. Now there are many kinds of its training methods.
Acoustic interference: Listen to music while reading. Or interfere the pronunciation with the sound of the metronome. This solution is not effective. It seems effective at the beginning. The usual thinking seems not to run. So the pronunciation in the brain seems to have stopped. However, once you can adapt and understand, the pronunciation will come. Because the thinking starts at this time.
Physiological organ transplant: Reduce or control the pronunciation of organs. Such as lips, tongue and adam's apple. Make it exercise less. Increase the pronunciation obstacle. Reduce the dependence on pronunciation gradually through the training. This method can only suppress voice pronunciation. It have no effect for the brain pronunciation.
Expand the visual image: Look a few words at a time or look at a meaning group. First to say, people’s visual image is four or five word without apparent development. And the distribution of visual attention is unbalanced. This will not be enough to overcome the pronunciation in the brain.
Increase speed: Speed up the eyes’ dancing. Some people think that the training of speed reading reaches to two thousands five hundreds words to more than three thousands words per minute, students’ pronunciation phenomenon will be sharply reduced or even disappear. With the increase of velocity, an inevitable situation is the loss of understanding. Even after the adaptation, pronunciation phenomenon will appear again, when you face the complex books.
Set a goal
If you practice this well,then there is a natural thing. You must have a reading training about reading one sentence. Then increase the difficulty slowly. Set your goals according to your request. The speed of your improvement is just as the remote airplanes.
The training of the memory
If you only can read, but you can't remember. It is no use. Speed reading depends on the right brain’s memory training. First, read an article with your current level. Then recall the text image. After that write the text from memory, racking their brains to write. Write the text in mind according to the understanding of the meaning of the article and image. Put all the things in mind empty. Practice more and more, your memory will get great improvement. Learning method has the relative content of silent thought about the memory training. The training is much simpler.