| One of the best ways to improve your reading | | | | compute your practice reading rate. |
| speed, is to practice. Practice reading doesn't | | | | What is going to happen, is you won't be able to |
| mean reading more and more. Practice reading | | | | completely comprehend all the words you're |
| involves the actual arts of an conscious decision | | | | seeing, but you will be able to understand and |
| to work on reading faster than you can actually | | | | comprehend some of those words. Again, |
| read. Chances are you won't comprehend much | | | | because you're going at a very fast rate, when |
| of what you are reading because your brain is so | | | | you slow down you will be able to read it faster |
| used to going at a slower rate and subvocalizing. | | | | then you were originally able to and with more |
| Remember, sub localizing is the practice of | | | | practice that speed will increase. Once you get |
| creating the words and reading them in your head | | | | used to practice reading at a high rate that you |
| instead of looking at the word and automatically | | | | can't comprehend, you should slowly be able to |
| creating a mental understanding. | | | | actually comprehend at a slightly slower rate but |
| The point is simply to see the text faster than | | | | still faster than if you subvocalized. |
| you can read so you can untie the habit of | | | | To review what we are going to do. Take out a |
| sounding the words as you comprehend them. | | | | book that you have not read. Set the timer, and |
| Basically, what practice reading means is taking | | | | then start looking at the words in order as if |
| the time to make sure and actually focus on | | | | you're reading the sentence. Make sure that you |
| learning how to look at the words and not try to | | | | do not try to form the words with your mouth. |
| form them so that you can speak them. | | | | If you can hear yourself in your head reading the |
| Start your reading practice by taking a stopwatch | | | | page that you are not doing this correctly. When |
| and seeing how quickly you can look at text and | | | | the one minute timer is up, review to see if you |
| create understanding in your head without trying | | | | were able to understand or get through that page |
| to say the words. Use a book you haven't read | | | | quickly. Over time, your rate will increase. |
| before to ensure your brain is actually practicing | | | | But how can you practice read faster than you |
| instead of relying on memory. Mark out where | | | | can read? How do you follow the text but still go |
| you started and stopped. Count the number of | | | | faster than you can read? The answer is another |
| words per line (use a quick average) and then the | | | | of speed reading tricks, using a pointer. |
| number of lines you actually read in the book to | | | | |