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AGENDA:

Introduction.

Where am I ,now???

Bad reading habits.

Maintain Attention While Reading.

3 Tips On How to Improve Your
Concentration.

Why You Should Read 15 Minutes Every Day.

How to Manage Your Time Efficiently.
Introduction

“Reading is to the mind as aerobic
training is to the body.”
By Tony Buzan.

Little story about Tony Buzan.

Introduction

What’s the meaning of reading???
 It’s a visual thinking process.

What’s the importance of reading?
 Extracting information:
○ Education.
○ At work.
○ Searching.
 Just for reading.
Where am I ,now???

In any learning or self improvement
situation, it’s essential to find the true
base which you start from.

This base form a solid foundation from
which you can springboard to your
ultimate goals.
 Speed reading test.
 Speed reading level.
 Comprehension level.
Speed Reading Self Test
Comprehension Level
Speed Reading Levels
Reader Speed wpm Comprehension

1 Poor 10-100 30-50%

2 Below Average? 100-200 30-50%

3 Average 200-240 50-70%

4 Functionally literate 400 70-80%

5 Top 1 in 100 800-1000 80%+

6 Top 1 in 1000 1000+ 80%+

Educational Level Of Speed
Reading
Speed Reading Comprehension
Curve
Conclusion.

Your reading speed is now:
 Reading speed = (number of words / time)
WPM.

Your comprehension level is now:
 Comprehension level
= (no. of right / no. of all)*100 = …….. %

Reading speeds range (1 – 1000) WPM.

Average reading speed = (200 – 220 )
WPM.
Bad Reading Habits

Reading at late night.
 This time is the least effective .
 Reader remains unable to understand.

No purpose.
 lack of concentration.

Improper environment and location.
 Reading in bed (students).
 Worming rooms (students).
Bad Reading Habits

Reading aloud or pronouncing in head.
 Reduces the speed and reading
comprehension of a reader.

Unimportant materials.

Reading passages in detail.
 consumes a lot of time.
 Should read main ideas.
 Should use skimming and scanning
techniques.
The Best Way to Learn Speed
Reading

It is not enough to learn “how to speed
read” Being an effective speed reader is
more important.

It is difficult to learn how to speed read
by following the normal learning
methods .

There are many tips that can make the
learning process easy and interesting.
How To Make It Interesting
I. Knowing the language well.

II. Playing some games.

III. Develop your practice sessions

containing 10 to 15 minutes daily.
Knowing the language well
Increase
vocabularies.

High
reading
skills.
Pronunciation. Recognition.
Playing some games

These games are especially designed to
help reader in learning how to speed
read.
10 to 15 minutes daily practice

Increasing speed level.

Increasing comprehension level.

There are many software programs and
online sources from which a reader can
get help.
Maintain Attention While
Reading

Almost every one of us faces the
problem of loosing focus or getting
distracted while reading.
 Distractions.
 people talking, the TV playing, kids crying,
colleagues gossiping.

Methods for maintaining attention:
 Read words from back to front.
Method for maintaining attention

Read words from back to front.

Do this daily for 10-15 minutes or even
30 minutes.

Start your practice with small four letter
words.

Once you find yourself fast in
interpreting the words you can slowly
move to bigger and more complex
words.
3 Tips On How to Improve Your
Concentration

Remove Distractions.

Give Yourself a Reason to Read, and

Develop Genuine Interest.

Rest Periodically.
Remove Distractions

Any distraction at all can reduce your
reading speed as well as your reading
comprehension. Worse, that distraction
can get you thinking about other things,
and your focus will quickly drift away
from what you are reading, onto
something irrelevant.
Give Yourself a Reason to Read

Stick that reason firmly in your mind,
and think of nothing other than the
content of the book.

You have to be interested.
Rest Periodically

Reading straight through a book does
have the “benefit of the flow”

Try stopping at the end of each chapter
for a rest.

Then, you get a chance to really think
about the text.

When you come back to the text, you
will be even more focus.
Why You Should Read 15
Minutes Every Day

If your reading speed was 200WPM (a
full 50WPM below the average reading
speed), and if you read for 15 minutes
every day 350 days a year (taking 15
days off for whatever reason), by the
end of the year you will have read
FIFTEEN BOOKS.

So think about it: how many books did
you read last year?
How to Manage Your Time
Efficiently

Proper time management can be one of
the hardest things for a person to achieve.

Tips for making your time more Efficient:
 draw up a time-table .
 Start your day with your most important job.
 End your day with something fun.
 put in the rest of the things you want to do.
 Do not overload yourself .
 whenever you feel like you can’t concentrate
anymore, just take a break .