| Law of Primacy? | | | | like names, dates and places. |
| We humans will remember the first thing we | | | | Once again you consciously believe you are not |
| study, hear or see,and the last thing - before we | | | | obtaining perfect comprehension,yet your brain is |
| ceased and desisted. | | | | absorbing key points in the text for long-term |
| The great middle ground is lost forever unless we | | | | memory. |
| have a learning-strategy for retention and | | | | What is important in these warm-up exercises is |
| long-term memory. We start strong and lose the | | | | not comprehension - that comes later - it is |
| way, but thelast part of the text has stickiness. | | | | getting your eye-pattern-movement to control |
| Speed Reading Patterns | | | | the field-of-vision on the page. |
| If you do not immediately implement your speed | | | | Third Warm-up Exercise |
| reading strategy whenyou begin a new reading | | | | The final speed reading strategy is called |
| process - you will absolutely revert to yourlife-long | | | | Triple-Chunking - using your pacer to underline the |
| snailing habits. | | | | words down your page - by separating each |
| You may be a trained 1,200 words per minute | | | | sentence into three-clauses. Your pacer moves |
| reader, instead of the average | | | | left-to-right, left-to-right down the page. |
| 200 words per minute snailer - but if you do not | | | | This is the slowest warm-up of the three - and |
| consciously start-off with aspeed reading | | | | called this exercise Screening. You obtain more |
| warm-up for 50 seconds - you will be reading at | | | | comprehension with Screening than either |
| your old,reinforced, programmed 200 words per | | | | Skimming or Scanning; it is used to review both |
| minute. | | | | the main-ideas and specifics of the text. |
| Reason: you learned to read in the 3rd grade, | | | | Your Screening speed should be up to 400 words |
| reading one-word at a time,hearing the words | | | | per minute, double your old snailing speed. |
| recited in your mind, and exclusively using a | | | | Reading Readiness |
| hard-focus. | | | | Now you have changed your eye focus from |
| By now your left-brain is programmed with | | | | Hard (narrow vision), to Soft-Focus -using your |
| snailing neuropathways thatkick-in by auto-pilot - | | | | wide, peripheral-vision. The secret is that our eyes |
| unless you command yourself to cease-and-desist. | | | | are genetically -motion-detectors, and our eyes |
| How? You do 50 seconds of speed reading | | | | instinctively follow a moving object. |
| warm-ups before you go to bat withthe text. | | | | Using one of your three Pacers forces your eyes |
| First Warm-up Exercise | | | | to speed up to the speed of yourbrain-sight. You |
| The Z with a Diagonal is the fastest speed | | | | stop snailing and reading exclusively with your |
| reading strategy. It is underliningthe sentences | | | | left-brain, and speed read by adding your |
| using your pacer (pen, RasterMaster and Cursor), | | | | right-brain skills. |
| moving atthree-times your normal reading speed. | | | | This boosts your reading to over 600 words per |
| Use the Skimming exercise down one-page. | | | | minute; speed readers can learn-and-remember |
| You estimate how fast to Skim using the Z with | | | | three books, articles and report in the time others |
| a Diagonal. It is three-timesyour old snailing speed | | | | can hardly finish one. |
| of 200 words per minute. Skim at about | | | | Our goal for speed reading graduates is to have a |
| six-hundredwords per minute moving your eyes | | | | permanent competitive-advantage, and to |
| left-to-right and right-to-left down theparagraphs. | | | | continuously maintain their career Fast-Track. |
| Comprehension may appear to be zero, yet your | | | | Reading readiness is associated with teaching little |
| brain uses peripheral (soft)focus to absorb the | | | | kids to read. It works with them and will permit |
| main points (topics), of the texts. Your | | | | you to triple your reading speed permanently by |
| eye-patternmovements down the page exercise | | | | using these three warm-up exercises before you |
| your fourteen eye-muscles and set themup for | | | | start the text. |
| speed reading later at up to 600 words per | | | | Remember the names - Skimming - Scanning - |
| minute. | | | | and Screening. Each strategy exercises different |
| Second Warm-up Exercise | | | | eye muscles. There is one external muscle in each |
| This is called Double Chunking - using your pacer | | | | eye to control your upper-eyelid, and six internal |
| to underline the wordsdown the page by dividing | | | | eye muscles - a total of seven. |
| the sentences into two-separate clauses. Your | | | | You own a total of fourteen-eye muscles, and |
| Pacermoves left-to-right, left-to-right down the | | | | training them in speed reading techniques is the |
| page. | | | | difference between snailers who read 200 words |
| We call this exercise Scanning - and it is reading at | | | | per minute, and speed readers of up to 1,200 |
| up to 500 words per minute. | | | | words per minute. You choose. |
| At this speed your brain picks up specific details | | | | |