efficient reading
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3 Useful Reading StrategiesTRANSCRIPT
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Reading Strategies
Read Faster.Read Better.
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Begin with Previewing
• Previewing will give you the general idea of a reading,• Helps you determine the purpose and audience • Very useful for longer texts.• Helps activate your background knowledge Here’s how to preview: • First, read the entire first paragraph• Next, read only the first sentence of each paragraph• Then, read the entire last paragraphs• Look at pictures, subtitles, textual details (bold, italics, etc)
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Then Start Skimming
• Skimming will give you the general idea of a reading• Very useful for shorter texts. • Is a great way to review material you have read before.
Here’s how to skim: • Force your eyes to move
fast. • Sweep your eyes across
each line of type. • Pick up only a few
key words in each line.
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Preview & Skimming• Previewing and Skimming cannot promise
more than 50% comprehension.• To read faster and understand more of what
you read, you need to know a third technique.
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Clustering to increase speed AND comprehension
Most of us learn to read by looking at each word in a sentence — one at a time. Like this:
My — brother — Russell — thinks — monsters…
• Word-by-word reading slows your reading down.• Clustering trains you to look at groups of words • It increases your speed enormously.
Here’s how to cluster: • Train your eyes to see all the words
in clusters of up to three or four words at a glance.
• Here’s how I’d cluster the story we just skimmed:
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Compare the Eye Fixations of Slow, Average, and Fast Readers
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Slow Reader’s Eye Fixations
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Average Reader’s Eye Fixations
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Fast Reader’s Eye Fixations
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Clustering Takes PracticeHere’s how to go about it:
• Pick something light to read. • Read it as fast as you can. • Concentrate on seeing three to four words at once rather
than one word at a time. • Then reread the piece at your normal speed to see what you
missed the first time.
Practice fifteen minutes every day and you might pick up the technique in a week or so.
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Special Thanks
• How to Read Faster by Bill Cosby• A Reader’s Handbook by Rose Wassman and
Anne Paye