The author of this book, Franklin Agardy
is to acknowledge the great reading dynamics
creator, Evelyn Wood. She has created a
reading method that can help many to read
faster, understand better, remember longer,
learn speedier and think sharper. Here, I
would like to share the essence of this book
that helps me to improve my reading skills.
First, you have to know your reading speed.
Here is a link to know your reading speed at
words per minute. Those interested to know more,
click
here. There are rating in this link as well.
For those who can read more than 600 words
per minute, congratulations. :D
There are several reading habits that slow a
person reading.
1. You speak each word to yourselves while
reading.
2. You read only one word at a time
3. You backtrack - reread
So, in order to improve. Break those habits.
Try to read without speaking the words to your-
self and try to read more than one word at a
time. How? Very simple, you just need to start
practicing by using you index finger as pacer
when you read. Use the index finger to glide
through every line you read. Practice by gliding
faster each time you read until you reach a level
that you do not need the finger anymore as you
have built in yourselves a invisible pointer.
However, by just pointing and read is not
good enough in helping you to understand what
you read. Every books, articles even news have
a title. From the title, set an intention of what you
want to know, what you expect to learn, what are
the data or facts that you need. How? Set an idea
which normally you can get from the title. Then ask
a few simple "how, what, when, who and why
questions. This will help you in finding the answers
as you read through the paragraph. This method is
also useful in helping you to recall what you have
read as well. (By the way, this is not a good reading
method for novel, story or fiction book, I have to
be honest will you all just like the book is telling me)
You all must be curious why I blog in such
a method like what is printed in the newspaper.
Evelyn Wood invented this "eye movement cut"
pattern is to aid in reading. Now it has become
the printing standard of all newspaper.
This is just a very brief summary from the
book. There are too many details in this book
that can really help and guide you in your reading
skills. I am here to share some simple tricks that
can help people to improve in a short period of
time. If you really want to know more, click the
link below and buy the book to explore yourself
in
How to Read Faster and Better
