The most powerful reading technique today is a rapid speed reading approach. In this highly competitive society that we live in there can be no other system that would be acceptable. In order to get a handle on all the material that is being published and written one needs to master a rapid or speed reading approach.Ever since man started to read, he has wanted to do it much faster. He has always wanted to remember more of what he read. There have been many approaches, systems, techniques and tips to reading faster with more or better comprehension.
The first was just to read fast, the next was the usage of a machine to help a reader move along the material. The machines are part of the new age of learning. Most of the material on the machine was foreign to the reader, and that caused difficulties. After using the reading machines, many would be fast readers seem to go back to their old ways of reading and comprehending. As a reading specialist, I have notice slight changes in students’ speed and comprehension. I sometimes get better results if the student is more comfortable and relaxed while using a reading machine.
But in today’s society the usage of reading machines continues. I suppose that some students are doing well. I remember trying those machines and they worked well as I sat there and experienced the revelation, but the moment I left and picked up a book, I felt no drastic change. One method that I think shows promise is reading subtitles while watching a movie. You push yourself to read faster and faster to keep up with the changing words and sentences. If that doesn’t simply give you a headache, you will love doing it.
What has been found is that once you start getting involved in the movie you usually lose yourself and forget all about the subtitles. That is a sensation all its own.
Speed reading took on a new look when Evelyn Wood Reading Dynamics came to the forefront and taught John F. Kennedy, the former president. That program seemed to appeal to many future readers. (more…)
We are not computers linked in networks, so we simply cannot absorb all the information into our brain by reading a book or an article on a topic that interests us. Reading is, thus, a rather creative kind of activity. Because of that, even classics such as Shakespeare or Dostoevsky, may have very different interpretations. Literary critics call these interpretations “readings.” The creative nature of reading does not imply that the reading process is random, depending on the reader’s mood or knowledge, or capacity of perception, but it means that the writer can induce the readers into certain interpretations, can allude to certain meanings in his writings. The writer has to mind the narrative structure of his book, and give the reader certain clues in order for it to creatively and properly read it.