Improving Reading Speed

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Improving Reading Speed

• ?Andy
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OUTLINE

• What is an adequate speed?
• How fast do you read?
• What affect reading speed?
• How to improve reading speed?

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1. What is an adequate speed?
Scanning
For specific info.
600 wpm
Skimming
For the gist
450 wpm
Rauding
Representative
300 wpm
Learning
For knowledge
200 wpm
Memorizing
For facts / data
130 wpm
(Carver, 1990)
Syllabus
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1. What is an adequate speed?
0
8
2
4
6
Level
NA
1000/5
1300/5
1600/5
Speed
NA
Learning
60
70-120
120-180
140-180
NA
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2. How fast do you read?
TEST
Sailing Round the World Before he sailed
round the world single-handed, Francis Chichester
had already surprised his friends several times.
He had tried to fly round the world but failed.
That was in 1931. The years passed. He gave
up flying and began sailing. He enjoyed it
greatly. Chichester was already 58 years old when
he won the first solo transatlantic sailing race.
His old dream of going round the world came back,
but this time he would sail. His friends and
doctors did not think he could do it, as he had
lung cancer. But Chichester was determined to
carry out his plan. In August, 1963, at the age
of nearly sixty-five, an age when many men
retire, he began the greatest voyage of his life.
Soon, he was away in this new 16-metre boat,
Gipsy Moth.
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3. What affect reading speed?

• Reading Purposes

• Reading Habits

• Reading Abilities

• Reading Skills

• Reading Materials

• Reading Teaching

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4. How to improve reading speed?

• Reading Purposes

• Be Purposeful, Flexible

• Reading Habits

• Improve Habits

• Reading Abilities

• Strengthen Abilities

• Reading Skills

• Develop Skills

• Reading Materials

• Select Materials

• Reading Teaching

• Reform Teaching

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4. How to improve reading speed?

• Suggested Activities

• Rate buildup reading
• Repeated reading
• Class-paced reading
• Self-paced reading
• Reading Software

The increase of reading speed demands a conscious
speed training (with a regular record).