Speed reading is a set of techniques that helps you increase your reading speed while maintaining comprehension. It involves getting rid of certain reading habits and using specific patterns to read faster. The goal is to absorb more information quickly and efficiently.
Students and researchers work on big projects, capstone projects, assignments, dissertations and thesis, and need to read large volumes of material quickly, and they can accomplish a lot more by improving their speed reading skills.
Speed reading enables the reader to assimilate material quickly and effectively; depending upon the purpose of the reading. For example; is this journal article useful for my work?, what are the main ideas within a topic? or is this research useful for my dissertation project?
If you want your child to improve their reading speed, you need to help them inculcate the proper habits right from the beginning.
The first thing you must do is to make sure you’re using your finger to guide you while reading.
Lot of students have this habit of just seeing the text, and using their eyes to guide. This method slows you down.
Instead, you must place your index finger under the text and move the finger from left to right as you read.
It is important to develop this habit if you want to improve your speed.
Over time, you must increase the speed at which you move your finger.
A further progression would be to train your eyes to see multiple words at a time as you move from left to right.
Keep practicing and in a few months you will be able to read more in the same time.
