Breakthrough rapid reading

Book Description

Breakthrough rapid reading

About this Title

The former National Director of Education for Evelyn Wood Reading Dynamics. presents his do-it-yourself program for increasing reading speed and boosting comprehension. This program distills fundamental principles and skills chat can be learned at home with the help of the drills and exercises provided. And because it lets readers choose their own materials and set their own pace, it's the ideal method for busy people juggling a full schedule.

Table of Contents

What breakthrough rapid-reading means to you

1. Save time by starting today
2. Test your reading rate to see where you stand
3. Start using your built-in reading accelerator
4. Eliminate regressions and speed ahead
5. Build your reading rate through drilling
6. Ask this simple question and start getting better comprehension
7. Don't read just for its own sake
8. Become one of the world's fastest readers
9. Use the magic line to develop better reading recall
10. Stretch your rate higher with a different drill
11. Know writers' techniques and help yourself
12. Don't let turning pages slow you down
13. Make difficult reading easy
14. How people read really fast
15. Learn to read as fast as you think
16. How to start getting comprehension at high speeds
17. Read without saying each word to yourself- and soar
18. How are you coming along?
19. Knowing reading signals helps you speed up
20. There's more than one way to read
21. Advance organizers can help your comprehension
22. Change your attitude and increase your speed
23. Previewing fiction is always ver fast
24. A different hand movement can help your comprehension
25. Make study reading a game
26. Read with defined purposes
27. "Program" your reading to learn more efficiently
28. Create visual patterns to help your recall
29. Remember more of what you've read with these proven techniques
30. Unravel difficult passages this easy way
31. Develop high speeds with these special drills
32. Read your newspaper instantaneously
33. Don't waste your time reading the mail
34. Develop the book-a-day habit
35. Keep up with your magazines and informational reading
36. Find out just how far you've come
Practice drills for continuing
How to maintain a certain practice reading rate
Index