How to learn to read quickly and understand what you read. What is a reading person like? Visual memory skills

With an abundance of information in the modern world, as well as a constant lack of time, it is very important to learn how to read quickly, because this is the only way to always be aware of everything you need. Whatever field you work in, innovations are constantly appearing, and you definitely need to be aware of the changes. Not to mention the fact that in the absence of the skill of speed reading, even daily correspondence can turn into a long and tedious task.

If your task is to slowly enjoy reading the classics, swaying in a rocking chair, it is possible to increase the speed and nothing, but in all other cases it definitely does not hurt.
Common misconceptions about abbreviation.
To learn how to read very quickly, you should first rid your mind of some of the installations that do not allow you to even start. In fact, these are nothing more than myths, but they are quite common. The first of them: to read quickly, you need a special talent and this is not given to everyone. Not true! If you have mastered the ability to read as such, then you can increase the speed. The second sounds like this: if you didn’t learn to read well in childhood, it’s impossible to do it with age. And also not true. You can learn this skill at any age. There would be a desire.
Quantity and quality.
Even in the distant school years, the reading technique was higher for those children who read more - not only within the limits of a given program, but simply “for themselves”. And the first rule of someone who wants to learn to read quickly - read. And not from a computer screen. Make it a rule to read at least 10-15 pages of a book a day, gradually increasing their number. With constant training, over time, you will already “grab” the words in their entirety, recognize them faster, and it will take much less time to read. In this way, you will learn to read quickly, even without the use of special techniques and without various speed reading courses. But to make your classes more effective, it is still worth familiarizing yourself with some tricks.

Don't read aloud!
Reading aloud, so necessary at the initial stage of learning, now only gets in the way. If you move your lips in a school-like way or pronounce every word you read to yourself, you should know that this slows down your reading. It is quite obvious that we can catch words many times faster than pronouncing them. Here are some exercises that will help you shut up and thereby increase the speed of perception of printed information.

• keep your finger on your lips and make sure they don't move;
  
• firmly press the tongue to the teeth while reading;
  
• put some calm melody while reading (without words, of course!) and follow it while you read.
  

Concentration.
Be extremely attentive, nothing slows down your reading more than the need to go back and reread what has already been read. Moreover, the very thought that you can re-read at any moment weakens attention. Don't let yourself go back. So you get off track and waste time. Knowing that you can not reread, you will read everything much more carefully.

Look wider.
Reading speed largely depends on how well your peripheral vision is developed (remember, you need to grasp the entire line from beginning to end, looking into its middle). To develop it, do a few simple exercises.

1. Write numbers from 1 to 9 in a square, randomly placing them throughout the area, and then, looking into its middle and without taking your eyes off, find the numbers in order. Then complicate the task by increasing the square and the number of numbers.
   
2. In any situation, try, looking straight ahead, to grab as many objects as possible with peripheral vision.
   
3. While reading, look at the window, the angle of view will increase, and return to the book again.
   

Now that you have an idea of ​​how to learn to read quickly, the result depends on only one thing - daily practice. And if you have enough motivation, then with some diligence, you will develop speed reading skills much faster than you think. Expensive speed reading courses are, of course, great, but if you want to learn how to read quickly, you can do it yourself. We wish you success in this important undertaking!

When there is very little time left before school, and the child still does not know how to read, parents begin to panic, because the baby will go to first grade unprepared. The problem is how to quickly teach him to read. You can do this at home, without resorting to the help of teachers. In this article, we will answer the main questions that parents may have when trying to quickly teach their child to read.

How do you know if a child is ready to learn?

Interest in reading occurs in children about 5 years old. But we all know that each child is individual in his development. Some are ready for training as early as 4 years old, and some will have to postpone this process until 6-7 years old. It is very important for parents not to miss this moment, because it is during this period that it will be much easier to teach reading.

You can contribute to the awakening of interest in reading in a child by personal example. There should be books and magazines at home, the child should see that the process of reading is a pleasure for parents. Answering the child's questions, you can tell him which book contains this answer.

The best incentive for a child to learn to read is the example of parents

To understand whether a child is ready to learn to read, you can analyze a number of factors:

• Does the child have sufficient language skills? he must have a rich vocabulary, be able to build phrases, coordinate words, clearly express his thoughts, be able to talk about the objects and phenomena around him;
• Is phonemic awareness sufficiently developed? Pay attention to whether the baby can distinguish speech sounds, name the first or last sound in a word, whether he can reproduce the sounds he hears;
• Are there any problems with hearing and pronunciation. The child must have all the sounds, the correct pace of speech, rhythm;
• The baby should be able to navigate freely in space, know the concepts of right-left, top-bottom.

If all these factors are met in full, your child is ready to learn to read.

The best way is learning to read in a playful way

All educational and developmental activities with preschoolers should be played. At this age, the child is simply not able to perceive new information in a different way. The game is the most active form by which a preschooler learns about the world. It is a natural state for a child of this age. All classes should be unobtrusive, arranged according to the principle “as it were, by the way”, then the child will learn the information more fully.

To teach reading, you can use a lot of game aids and games. Using game activities in learning, we create a positive emotional background that will help the child learn the knowledge gained. With the help of the game, we can instill a love of reading. There is no obligation in the game, the child develops as he can.

If, for example, the baby is not yet able to move from reading by syllables to reading words together, then he is not yet ready. Don't overestimate your requirements. If suddenly a child has a persistent reluctance to learn to read, it means that an adult has made a mistake somewhere. In this case, you should stop learning, pause and try again, offering the baby interesting games.

Watch a video review of the most popular methods of teaching reading in the video:

Overview of effective games and techniques

Teach your child not letters, but sounds. It will be difficult for the kid to understand that the letter "em" (or even "me") is read as "m", and he will read the word MAMA EMAEMA. At first, only sounds, and only when the child understands how to read, proceed to learning the correct name of the letters.

The child should know how the letters sound, and only then - what are they called

Effective Methods

Zaitsev Cubes

Modern parents have heard a lot about Zaitsev's okubiki. This is one of the most popular methods at the present time, with which you can teach your child to read quite quickly. This method of learning is suitable for active kids who find it difficult to sit in one place. Warehouses written on the cubes are taken as one unit. This distinguishes this technique from the usual ones, where one unit is one letter. A speaking child can pronounce these warehouses at almost any age.

There are different types of warehouses on Zaitsev's cubes:

• warehouses with only one letter,
• a warehouse combining two letters: a consonant and a vowel, a consonant and a soft sign, a consonant and a hard sign.

Zaitsev's cubes are considered one of the fastest methods of teaching reading.

Cubes have a different color and are called differently depending on it. Cubes with vowels are called gold, their color is golden. Warehouses that sound loudly are called iron, their color is gray. Wooden, or brown cubes - warehouses with a dull sound. Punctuation marks stand for white and green dice.

Cubes have their own filling and, depending on it, their own sound and different weights. They can be filled with:

• wooden sticks;
• bells;
• sand;
• stones;
• small metal objects
• lids and stoppers.

The cubes also vary in size. If the cube is of normal size, it means that the warehouse on it is soft. If the cube is doubled, then the warehouse on it will be solid.

In addition to cubes, tables are used on which all warehouses are written. These tables are always in front of children.

Watch the video review of the buyer of the Zaitsev Cubes set:

As early as 2 years old, you can use blocks to introduce your child to reading. The older the child, the less classes he will need to learn to read. So, children under 3 years old will be able to master this skill in about six months, while a six-year-old child will need only 5-6 lessons to master the skill of reading.

When studying, children do not spend time in one place. They are always on the move. All classes are held only in the form of a game.

The most popular dice games are:

• Cheerful steam locomotive. Children build a locomotive from cubes with vowels. The locomotive starts moving when all the warehouses on the cubes are sung.
• Kolobok. The child throws the kolobok cube anywhere in the room. He needs to catch up with the cube and read the warehouse that was on top.
• Find a couple. For any warehouse you like on a cube, you need to find the same one in the table.
• Animal voices. We are looking for warehouses on the cubes that correspond to the sounds made by animals (me, meow, be, mu).

Thanks to the sounds made by Zaitsev's cubes, it is interesting to play even the smallest

Feedback from parents about this technique is not unambiguous. Someone says that with the help of this technique, the baby fell in love with reading. They helped develop logic, thinking, the ability to think critically in the child, and contributed to his comprehensive development. It was absolutely not difficult for such parents to deal with the child, they noted that the children easily switched to independent reading.

A number of parents did not see results in learning with cubes. The children did not understand the essence of such reading, it was difficult for them to switch to reading by syllables. For these guys, an individual form of education was not suitable, difficulties arose. With the collective form of training, there were more successes.

Watch another entertaining video about Zaitsev's cubes:

Logopedic technique of N. Zhukova

Another, no less popular, method for quickly learning to read is the method developed by N. Zhukova. It is based on a speech therapy approach. It can be used to prevent the occurrence of speech defects. Learning takes place with the help of the Primer, the hero of which is the "Jolly Boy". The boy helps the child to learn the correct reading, this process happens very quickly. The Primer begins with learning to read syllables. Words gradually appear and at the end texts are offered for reading.

In the Primer there is a minimum of unnecessary information, there is nothing for the child to be distracted from the process, there are few entertaining games and pictures in it. The technique is suitable only for highly motivated five-year-olds who want to go to school faster.

Games that help your child learn to read quickly

Letter learning games

• Create bright and memorable images of letters together with the baby, with which he can then play. For such purposes, you can use ready-made cards that show colorful letters.

You can study with the primer of Elena Bakhtina. It offers colored letters that can be cut out, entertaining pictures and interesting stories about each letter. You can use coloring pages, where the letters resemble various objects.

• To memorize letters, you can use short verses, talking about letters.
• Designing letters from matches, counting sticks, plasticine, wire.

• Create with a child reminder table about each letter.

Table-"reminder" about letters

• Create an album in which the letters will live. Each page is housing for a single letter. Housing can be decorated with pictures starting with this letter, coloring books, write poems about this letter.

• Name the letters that are hidden. The child is offered a picture in which he must find different letters.

• Together with the child, you can create a house for letters. In the house for each letter there should be a window-pocket. After studying the letter, we populate the cardboard letter home. The studied letters can be offered the treat that begins with it (A - apricot, pineapple). Fairy-tale characters can visit the letter with which their name begins (L - Leopold, M - Masha). With the help of such a house for letters, the child will learn to recognize the studied letters, determine the first letter in the word.

• "Catch the Sound" We throw the ball to the child, naming different words. If the word has a studied letter, then we catch the ball. If there is no letter, the ball must be hit.

• Board games can be used to learn letters. Well, lotto and dominoes with letters help with this. The ideal option would be a lotto that does not contain pictures, but only letters. So the stage of memorizing letters will pass much faster. You can make such a lotto yourself. It will require 6-8 cards with written letters and small pictures with letters that the child will name to search on the cards.

• Riddles in which the studied sound is often repeated.

Elephant walking in Africa

wagged his long trunk,

And then again! - and disappeared:

Turned into a letter ... (C)

• « Fishing". Pictures are placed in a bowl, to which magnets are attached. The task of the child: to catch all the words in the name of which there is a studied letter.

An example of another educational game, see the video:

Games aimed at the ability to add syllables

After you and your child have studied all the letters, the next stage comes - we add the syllables.

• By the same principle as the lotto for letters, you can do syllabic lotto.
• Walking games can be used. Such games can be made independently, using ready-made walking games as a basis. In the empty cells along which you need to move the chip, you need to enter different syllables. During the game, the child rolls the die as usual. The difference is that he must read the syllables that he met on his way. So you can get sound tracks, consisting of even 6 syllables. By the same principle, you can make a race track. The child must move the typewriter, reading the syllables encountered on his way. Whoever reads all the syllables faster will reach their destination faster and win the race.

• Games "Shop" and "Mail". Write various syllables on the coins for the game in the store. The buyer must give a coin on which the syllable is written. The name of the product should begin with this syllable (a coin with the syllable ba - we buy a banana, a coin with the syllable ma - we buy a car, a coin with the syllable pla - we buy a dress). The principle of the game "Mail" is the same as the game "Shop". Here, for the game, you need to prepare envelopes, instead of the address on which syllables will be written. The recipients are toy animals. The task of the game is to deliver the mail correctly (an envelope with the syllable so - to the dog, an envelope with the syllable li - to the fox).
• Houses with syllables. This game will require houses on which syllables are written; figurines of little men cut out of cardboard with written names; pictures cut out of magazines with furniture, fruits, vegetables and other various items. During the game, for each house you need to find a tenant, a little man, whose name begins with the syllable written on the house. At the same time, the little man goes to the store and buys himself something that begins with the same syllable. For example, Dima will live in a house with the syllable di and buy himself a sofa, Polina will live in a house with the syllable po and buy himself tomatoes.
• The game "Make a syllable of halves." For the game, you need to write various syllables on cardboard cards and cut them in half horizontally. Shuffle cards. The task of the child is to collect the cards and read the syllables written on them.
• "Finish the word." On the cards we write words divided into syllables. It is better to use words of two syllables, for example, porridge, puddle, field, feather. We cut the cards into separate syllables. Syllables with the beginning of words are moved to one side, syllables with the end of words are moved to the other. For the game, we take a card with the beginning of a word, read aloud the syllable that is written on it and the word that the child must compose. For example, KA - porridge. The task of the child is to find a card with a syllable that ends the word. In this case, a card with the syllable ША.

House with syllables

At the stage of teaching a child to read words and sentences, one has to study a lot from books. In order to instill a love of reading, such activities must be diluted with play activities. Here you can offer the following games.

• Find the hidden word. Rules: lay out a path in front of the child from different words. His task is to choose what you have guessed. For example, among the words: “bow, table, swing, cat”, find a “living” word, vegetables, a piece of furniture, children's entertainment on the street. After each search, it is better to put the card back and mix the words so that the child does not show the cards from memory.
• "Word in word". The child must find the word in the word. For example, COMRADES - PRODUCT, COOK, SHCHI, LAUGHTER - FUR.
• "Make a Word" Multi-colored circles with written syllables and pictures that tell the child what word to make. For example, a picture of the sea. The child must choose two circles. On the first circle, the syllable MO, on the second - PE. A picture of the sky. The child chooses circles with the syllables NOT and BO.

Educational game "Continue the words"

• "Footprints with words". You can get from one end of the room to the other only by following the footprints with the words written on them. Stepping on the trail, you must read the word on it.
• "Collect the word." The child is offered letters from which he must assemble a word. For example, XSEM - LAUGHTER, INCO - CINEMA.
• « Airport" or "Parking". For the game, you need to pick up similar words, for example, CAT, MOLE, MOUTH, COURT, which need to be spread out on the floor. This is necessary so that the child does not make a choice from memory, but read the words. An airplane flies from one airport to another. You tell the child the names of airports-words. If this is the game "Parking", then the child's car parks in the parking space offered to him.

You can independently or together with your child come up with such games, based on the hobbies of your baby. Games need to change all the time. Your imagination will certainly help you in such a difficult process of teaching a child to read.

The most effective learning for preschoolers is the game

Exercises and games to reinforce reading skills

To consolidate the initial reading skills, children can be invited to play the following games:

• "Make a word." The child is asked to compose a word from jumbled syllables and letters. For example: we create a game situation - Chanterelle decided to give gifts to her grandmother and wrote them down so as not to forget. Suddenly the wind came up and shook everything up. Let's help the fox remember what she wanted to give her grandmother, making words out of jumbled letters and syllables. RTOT - CAKE, FEKO TY N - CANDIES, VETS YOU - FLOWERS, KI CHO - GLASSES, CH RO KUK KA - HEN ....
• The game "Repairing Words"

We are ordinary words

Everyone knows us all

We contain the letter "a"

Thrice or twice.

Sometimes just one

(Just not at the beginning).

But today.. Well, well!

They all escaped!

BRBN STRT STKN KRT

In this poem, you can replace the letter "a" with any other vowel.

• Exercises with reading a short story with missing letters.
• "Letter Arithmetic"

Ko + world - ir + na + tanya - nya \u003d Room

K + thread - th + gam - m \u003d Book

A learning bingo card might look something like this

• Exercise "Read quickly"

Salt, salt, salt, sat, salt.

Cheese, cheese, cheese, peace, cheese.

Saw, saw, saw, linden, saw.

River, river, hand, river, hand.

• « Cryptographers» Children are invited to decipher the written word. 3124 - GRIA (GAME), 461253 - URTSOEG (CUCUMBER).
• "Guess what's wrong." The child can be offered pictures that depict animals or any other objects. The names on the pictures are signed incorrectly (instead of a cow - a crown, instead of a drum - a ram). The child must find the mistake by carefully reading and thinking about the meaning of the written word.
• "Country Border". In the game on the sheet you need to write various words. These words will be the inhabitants of the countries. It is necessary that the groups of written words be the exact opposite of each other. As an example, we can take living-non-living, wild and domestic animals, summer phenomena - winter phenomena, etc. The task of the child is to read the names of all the inhabitants and draw a border between countries. Such a game will not only help to consolidate reading skills, but also make the child read thoughtfully, reason.

Watch a useful video with a reading lesson by Svetlana Orochko:

• "Make Proverbs"

Fun, business, a, time, hour - Business is time, and fun is an hour.

• Reading words backwards SPRING - ANSEV, WINTER - AMIZ.
• You can use a series of notebooks "Letters from the dwarf Gosha" I will teach you to read ". Here, at the third level of complexity, the gnome writes large letters for the child, reading which the child will also consolidate the acquired skills.

The most important thing at this stage is not to make reading boring. Add fairy tales, magic to your child ... Captivate him with a game ... Even reading the text several times, as recommended for better understanding, can be made interesting by reading in different ways.

The video below shows a few secrets on how to instill in your child a love of reading:

Should I watch video tutorials?

The answer to this question is, of course. With the help of video lessons, you can diversify the learning process. The child will be happy to watch the video, while the child's attention will be completely focused on it. As a rule, such lessons are short in time, but the effect of their use is maximum.

When teaching a child to read, it is necessary to use every opportunity to make this process colorful and exciting. Using video tutorials will help you in this difficult task.

For example, watch this educational cartoon "Luntik learns letters":

How to teach to remember what you read?

The ability to remember what is read is an important aspect in teaching a child to read. It is often possible to encounter the fact that a child can read very quickly. However, when you ask him a question about what he has read, he cannot answer it. This is due to mechanical reading, the child does not think about the read text. Such reading will give the child many problems in the future, because at school it is necessary not only to read, but to retell the texts and answer questions about them. You need to understand what you are reading.

The child should read in a quiet and calm environment.

How can you teach to remember what you read? Let's try to answer this question.

• There should be no distractions while reading. It is better to read in silence and calm atmosphere.
• It is essential that the child understands what he is reading. To do this, each read sentence must be analyzed. You can read the sentence several times. If there are words in the text that the child does not understand, their meaning should be explained to him.
• At the initial stage of learning to read and memorize what has been read, you can offer to draw an illustration for each read paragraph. Looking at such an illustration, the child will be able to remember what he read.
• If the child has problems remembering what they read, then you can suggest dividing the text into parts.. First, let's read the first paragraph, analyze it, understand the meaning of what we read, draw an illustration. Then take a break, at least a short one, so that the child can be distracted. After the break, we proceed to reading the second paragraph. We also explain the meaning of what we read, analyze, tell, draw an illustration. After we ask the child to tell the first and second parts that he read. Illustrations can be used as hints. We take a break again. And so we read to the end of the text. Short texts are easier to read and remember.
• Reading is best in the morning. By evening, the child's brain is already overloaded with information and is not able to remember it. Therefore, in the evening it will be much harder for the child to remember what they read.
• The most important thing is to understand what you read! Do not force the child to tell the entire text from sentence to sentence. The most important thing is that the child can retell the main idea of ​​the read paragraph, understand what it says.
• During the story read by the child, in no case interrupt him. A child can very easily go astray and forget what he has read.

In this video, Shamil Akhmadullin tells why a child does not understand and remember the texts he has read, and how to deal with it:

1. It helps to avoid mechanical reading exercises with filling in the missing words. To find the right word in meaning, the child needs to read the text thoughtfully. For example, Kolya bought ... sweets (here the child chooses words on his own, it can be sweet, tasty, chocolate, sucking ...). Today was… a day. (suitable words are selected from the context: rainy, sunny, beautiful, cheerful, warm ...).
2. Another effective exercise is the use of semantic nonsense in the text. Here, along with correct sentences, the child is offered sentences with semantic errors that make his meaning absurd.

Example:

In one village, the faithful dog Barbos lived with the owners. The owners loved and spoiled him very much. They treated him to a double hammer and fresh firewood. One day, Barbos went for a walk - to breathe in the fresh wind and warm himself in a frying pan.

You should read the text, covering the first and last few letters of each line. The child needs to guess the meaning of the hidden letters.

Determine which type of memory the child has developed better: visual or auditory. Sometimes it is better for children to remember the read text in addition.

How to speed up the pace of reading schoolchildren

Currently, students are being loaded more and more. For successful learning, students must be able to read consciously and quickly. By helping your child speed up his reading pace, you can help him succeed in his studies, after all, as psychologists say, the text that is read at the pace of the spoken speech is best remembered.

At a low reading rate, the text is not remembered by the first grader. The reason for this is that when he reads the whole text to the end, he will already forget what happened at the beginning. If the reading speed is too high, the child “swallows” most of what is read without understanding it.

Often at the initial stage of learning, children do not remember what they have just read.

The norm of reading technique when a child graduates from grade 1 is considered to be reading 35-40 words per minute. When reading, the child must understand what he read, it is necessary to read slowly, correctly. By the end of the school year, the child should move from syllabic reading to reading in single words.

At the end of the second year, the child should read at least 55-60 words per minute. Now he should read in whole words, consciously, without making mistakes. At 8-9 years old, the child should already be able to observe the necessary pauses, logical stress and intonational coloring of the text.

At the end of the third grade, the reading rate should increase to 75-80 words per minute. At the same time, a 10-year-old child should be able to show reading comprehension, observing pauses, intonation, and logical stress.

By the end of elementary school, the child should read fluently, consciously, correctly. The student should already be able to show with the help of intonations his attitude to what he read, observing pauses, logical stresses. At the age of 11, a child should already be able to use all the necessary means of expressiveness of oral speech.

Parents should understand that when testing reading technique, the speed at which a child reads will not be the main indicator. In addition to reading speed, the method of reading (syllabic or word reading), reading awareness (the child must understand what he is reading about), expressiveness, and the presence of errors during reading are checked.

Below is a rather useful video about teaching children speed reading:

In order to speed up the pace of the student's reading, in which he will understand what he read, it is necessary to deal with the reasons that prevent the child from reading the text at a fast pace and with reading comprehension.

The child may be disturbed:

• Bad memory. By the time the child finishes the sentence, he has already forgotten what he read at the beginning. He has to read over and over until he understands the meaning of the sentence. In this case, it is necessary to develop the memory of the child. There are many different exercises for this.
• Carelessness. The child reads automatically without concentrating on reading. There is something completely different in his thoughts at this moment. As a result, it turns out that the text is read, but not understood. Mindfulness is the quality on which the understanding and memorization of the text depends very much. Attention, like memory, needs to be developed. To do this, there are effective techniques and recommendations. But first of all, you need to eliminate all distractions when reading, create an appropriate environment.
• The child reads little at home, does not like to read. Engage your child in reading. For example, start your child reading a story with an exciting plot and stop at the most interesting place. If he wants to know the sequel, he must read it himself. Of course, you will continue, but not today, not now, maybe tomorrow ... Offer your child as much interesting fiction as possible to read. Show by example that you love to read. On the positive side, if the child reads a lot, his vocabulary will expand.
• Limited field of view. This can be expressed in the fact that the child does not see the word that follows the one being read. It takes time to see, read and understand this word. In solving this problem, classes with Schulte tables can help.
• Eye movement regression. The child looks back at the words already read. You can help in solving this problem if you cover each word you have already read with a piece of paper or a ruler. With constant repetition, the child's eyes will get used to the correct movement and will not look at the read text.
• The articulatory apparatus is underdeveloped. Here you can recommend classes with a teacher-defectologist. At home, you should strive to ensure that the child speaks slowly, calmly, pronouncing every word to the end. Learn tongue twisters, tongue twisters, sing songs with your child to practice stretching words.
• speech problems. A speech pathologist can help you solve them. Do not leave classes with a speech therapist until you see a fixed result. Perhaps the child will need a massage course.

Look closely to see if your child has any of the above problems. If suddenly those are found out, then do not hesitate, take measures to solve them. This will be an important step in helping your child learn to read quickly and consciously.

The following video shows tasks for training attention using the Schulte table.

A few tips on how to make your child love to read and do it without reminders and with pleasure, see the video:

1. Organize reading sessions. Several times during the day, ask the child to read a short text. The child does not need to read aloud. Here you can practice and read to yourself. Then ask him to talk about what he read.
2. Words in which there are many consonants in a row (for example, instrument) cause great difficulty in reading for a first grader. Such words can be written out on separate cards and learned with the child until he can quickly read them and pronounce them clearly.
3. Watching filmstrips, in which a small phrase is replaced by a colorful picture, does not allow the child to get tired while reading. This is where fast switching from reading to viewing plays a role.
4. If the child cannot read for a long time, then divide the text into 1-2 sentences and read them intermittently. During the break, the child rests and then is ready to read the following sentences.
5. Teach your child to retell the texts they read. Texts for retelling should not be large.

A filmstrip in which the baby will need to read the text on his own is presented below:

Parents seeking to teach their child to read as quickly as possible need to be very delicate in the learning process. Here are the rules and advice for those parents who do not want their child to lose interest in reading, but want to instill in their child a love for him.

You can start learning to read even when the child does not speak yet.

The sooner you start, the better. At an early age, you can hang cards with letters around the house and call them to the child several times a day. You can buy a sounded poster "Alphabet" with funny rhymes, songs about letters. Use the child's finger to trace the outline of the letter, naming it.

Engage only by playing with your child!

Exactly this important rule. All the information that a preschooler receives through the game is absorbed much faster than the information that is presented to him in the form of a boring lesson.

Perhaps the video below will help to understand the reasons why the child does not like to read:

Get your child interested in reading.

If you start forcing a child to read, then this desire will forever disappear from him. Get your child interested. Read to him as many interesting stories, fairy tales, poems as possible. At home there should be a rich selection of fiction for children. Tell him that all the answers to his questions can be found in books. Read for yourself, the child should see that those around him love to read. It is from them that he takes an example, strives to be like his parents.

Try learning syllables rather than letters.

Some children sometimes find it easier to learn to read in syllables than in letters. You can independently make cards with various syllables and place them throughout the apartment. During the day, show the child these syllables, call them. You can try to form words from syllables. Let the child look for the indicated syllable in the word. Change word cards every day.

It is necessary to consolidate the acquired knowledge as often as possible.

The more often you do this, the sooner the child will learn to read.

Act, gradually moving from simple to complex.

Do not require the child to read the word if he still does not know the sounds well. Do it step by step. Learn all the sounds with your child. After that, go to reading by syllables, teach him to merge syllables. Only after the child successfully copes with this task, you can proceed to learning to read whole words.

Start learning simple.

You need to start with the simplest words with repeated sounds: MOM, DAD, BABA. Next, proceed to learning to read words consisting of a syllable and a consonant: DED, CAT, MOUTH. Then move on to words consisting of 2-3 or more syllables. When the child begins to read individual words well, you can proceed to reading simple sentences, MOTHER WASHED THE FRAME. Words with the letters b, b, y read last.

Play didactic games.

You can find a lot of games to learn any letter. The simplest game can be called the search for the studied letter in the text. Lotto, dominoes... Use every opportunity.

The video below shows an example of how a three-year-old child learned to read from the speech therapy Primer by E. Kostikova:?

Create situations where the child will need to know the letters.

Let the grandmother give the child a note, he can receive a letter from Santa Claus, a greeting card. Show your child that the ability to read is very important in the life of every person.

Give your child an incentive to read.

For success in learning to read, a child can be given a small gift. Just don't make it a habit. The child should want to learn to read, to love reading, and not to read for something.

Close the read text.

This is to avoid regression of eye movements. The child is distracted from reading when his gaze returns to what he has read. The eyes should only move forward. Cover each word you read with a ruler, bookmark, or just a strip of white paper.

Always be patient and kind to your child.

If a child does not succeed in something, then he is not yet ready for this. No need to scold him and compare him with someone who was able to learn faster. By doing this, you will discourage the child from reading forever.

Watch the following videos by Svetlana Orochko, in which she talks about how parents can quickly teach a preschool child to read at home.

Reading is the most important process of processing and perception of graphic information, the learning of which begins from an early age.

The quality of mastering this skill largely determines the further success of a person in studies, in creativity, and even in everyday matters. We will consider not only how to learn to read quickly, but also how to capture the most important information in the text. The quality and speed of future intellectual work directly depends on the latter.

Why is it important to be able to read quickly?

Before mastering the art of fast and thoughtful reading, it makes sense to think about whether you need it?

If not, check out the article for general development and… read on anyway! Only choose those authors who are really interesting to you and cheer you up. Enriching the brain with new information is also an important task that keeps the intellect in good shape.

Maybe after a couple of years you will want to achieve something. Then all the initial data will be at your disposal. Namely, a more or less trained brain. Even reading fiction has been proven to make him tense.

If you are a goal-oriented person and want to become the best (s) in a field that requires serious intellectual work, this article is for you (it will detail how to read quickly and memorize).

What is a reading person like?

We live in the information age, in which the speed of mastering new knowledge plays a decisive role. A person who can quickly absorb a large amount of information:

• Self-assured.
• Has adequate self-esteem.
• Achieve a lot in life.

How to learn to read quickly?

Let's move on to the rules that are applicable in practice. Learning to read a specific text quickly? Then let's go:

• Read only useful books. For example, if you want to become a successful businessman, read the autobiographies of talented entrepreneurs. You will benefit from the story of Steve Jobs, which tells about the difficult fate of a man who made a breakthrough in the field of information technology (by the way, he did not differ in discipline and was a rebel in his youth. However, this did not prevent the implementation of his ideas). It also makes sense to read Adam Smith, namely his work An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. It tells in detail about how the capitalist system functions, what its main problem is, and crises of overproduction have already been predicted.
• Choose books written in an interesting and lively language.
• Before reading the paper volume, flip through it and read the table of contents. This way you will be guided through the main sections of the book.
• Read the piece quickly twice. Even if you do not understand some detail, do not focus on it: your task is to catch the main idea.
• Study the book in a comfortable environment for you. This refers to a quiet place where no one can distract you.
• Do not read unnecessary books: they clog your memory with unnecessary information.

Qualitative perception of information is the key to success

In this section, we will tell you how to read quickly and remember useful information. That is, how to understand the essence of the studied material. This is the purpose of reading - to learn how to extract the most important information from the text. Well, then put it into practice, if possible ...

Scientists have proven that a read text is well remembered when a person follows five simple rules:

1. Share what you read with friends. When a person retells the plot of a book in his own words, the probability of depositing new information in memory approaches 100%.
2. Takes notes as you read. They should reflect the key points of the book.
3. He knows exactly the best time for his brain. Proved that most of people perceive information well in the morning and afternoon. For other people (their minority), the opposite is true: they absorb information only in the evening or at night.
4. Does not speak aloud what he has read - this reduces concentration.
5. Focused only on reading the book: no external event can divert his attention from this most important matter.

Following these simple rules, the individual begins to read faster and learns to remember important information. It's great if these five points become a habit of a goal-oriented person.

In the next chapter, we'll show you how to learn to read aloud quickly.

Is oratory necessary today?

The ancient Greeks knew about the importance of beautiful and fast speech aloud. Philosophers and thinkers, which Ancient Greece was famous for, had excellent oratorical skills. That is why their valuable thoughts and ideas were easily perceived by ordinary people.

Is it important for a modern person to be able to read aloud quickly and without hesitation? The answer will definitely be positive.

And this applies not only to actors, philologists and scientists. Even an ordinary economist will need this skill in life. If only because at the end of the university each student defends his diploma in front of a large audience. And in further work, the ability to speak quickly and beautifully can become a decisive skill: often the promotion of an individual on the career ladder depends on a well-pronounced speech.

Now you know why this skill is so important. Next, we'll show you how to read aloud quickly.

It is best to learn this from a competent teacher. However, no one canceled independent education either. If you chose the second path, your assistants will be:

• audio courses;
• spelling dictionary (in it you can find the right stress for any dubious word);
• interesting audio books and TV shows (it is advisable to choose those in which people with a philological or acting education participate);
• voice recorder - it's very funny to listen to your speech in the recording and find mistakes;
• constant practice - it is she who determines further success in this direction.

Speed ​​reading - what is it?

So, what does this interesting two-root word mean? Speed ​​reading is the ability of a person to quickly read the text and navigate it 100%. Of course, it sounds strong ... and not too believable for an ordinary person who remembers how much time it took at school to study a difficult paragraph on history. Of course, if the individual turned out to be inquisitive, he certainly knew the material well. But for a qualitative study of 10-15 pages of text, sometimes it took more than one hour of time ...

Historical figures showing phenomenal results in speed reading

We will try to convince the reader that it is quite possible to read a book thoughtfully in one day. In any case, history knows individuals who can do this. Who are these amazing people?

• Lenin - read at a speed of 2500 words per minute! He was a unique person in every way; and such individuals are characterized by outstanding intellectual abilities.
• Napoleon.
• Pushkin.
• Kennedy.

The list can be continued for quite a long time... What contributes to such phenomenal results in speed reading? Two aspects - a person's devotion to an idea (this applies to politicians. Lenin is the most striking example) and the natural desire to create something new (this applies to creative people).

Specific speed reading techniques

We are still writing an article not about outstanding people, but about how to learn to read quickly common man. The scientific methods will be presented next.

• First, the book is read from beginning to end; then from the end to the beginning. The essence of the method is to gradually increase the speed of reading.
• Diagonal reading. This method consists in studying information obliquely, quickly scrolling through pages. Effective when working with works of art. This method was especially fond of Lenin.
• Driving your finger from the bottom of the line. This method, known to every person since childhood, is effective. Conducted studies prove this.
• appropriation technique. Means identifying and remembering keywords.
• Empathy technique. It consists in the visualization of the main character or the events taking place in the book from the side of the reader. This technique is effective when reading fiction.
• "Assault method". Used and used by scouts of various countries. It consists in the rapid assimilation of a certain amount of information by a specially trained person.

Speed ​​Reading for Kids

Intellect should be developed from a young age, that is, during the active growth of a person. During this period, the child's brain is 100% ready to assimilate new information. And in later life, all the skills acquired at school (including the ability to read quickly) will play into the hands of an already formed person.

In the previous sections, we looked at how to learn to read quickly for adults. Next, we will talk about speed reading techniques for children. Namely, how to read very quickly.

First, let's talk about a not very pleasant (but quite common aspect in our time) - about the reasons for slow reading in childhood. Then - about how to teach a student to read quickly.

Reasons for slow reading

• Low vocabulary. It is replenished in the course of reading new books, learning new things and communicating with people.
• Weak concentration of attention on the text.
• Weak articulatory apparatus. This problem is eliminated by special exercises presented in children's manuals.
• untrained memory. It develops by constant reading of interesting texts and performing semantic exercises for them.
• The content of the book is too complex. Not every student is able to perceive the intricate plot of a literary work. Here an important aspect is the knowledge of the parent of the characteristics of his child. Then there will be no problem with choosing a book for a child.
• Return to the same word or phrase (usually complex). The child does not understand its meaning and therefore rereads it again. Of course, this reduces the reading speed. It's great if the child is not shy to ask the meaning of an incomprehensible word. And the parent, in turn, is able to play the role of an explanatory dictionary - that is, to explain on the fingers what this or that word or phraseological unit means.

How to increase the speed of reading a child (or how to teach to read quickly) will be discussed further.

To do this, the parent will need:

• Interesting and short text. It is desirable that it is suitable for the age of the child.
• Timer.

Record the time before the start of reading (for example, 1 minute). After the specified time, stop your enthusiastic child and recount all the words you read.

Then repeat this operation for the second circle and so on. If everything goes right, then with each new time the read passage of the text will become larger. This suggests that the child's reading speed is increasing.

This section answers the question of how to learn to read very quickly.

How to teach a child to comprehend information?

As mentioned earlier, in reading, not only speed is important, but also the quality of perception of new information. It’s great if a person acquires the habit of meaningful reading from childhood.

Meaningful Reading Techniques for Children

• Extraction of key information. After reading a certain passage of text, ask the child to tell in a nutshell what the meaning of what they read is. If difficulties arise, repeat the exercise again.

• Role reading. Suitable texts in which there are dialogues between two characters. Invite the child to read the direct speech of the character that he liked the most. You voice the lines of his opponent.
• Reading funny phrases. You can remember the ones you read as a child. The most important thing is that they are interesting for the child. For example: "Sasha walked along the highway and sucked dry." This technique also answers the question of how to learn to read aloud quickly.
• "Schulte table". It is a lined square, designed for 25-30 cells. A number from 1 to 30 is written in each cell. The child is asked to silently find the numbers in the process of increasing. This exercise improves the scope of operational vision.
• Regularity of lessons. One of the most important points. No matter how simple or complex methods of fast reading a child learns, the only sense will be from regular classes.
• Don't forget to praise your child. At the end of the lesson, you need to tell the baby that he is making progress, and all the acquired skills will help him a lot in later life.

One of the most important school skills is speed reading. How to quickly read and understand the essence of the studied material, we discussed above.

Back in 1998, Princeton University hosted a Project PX seminar on high speed reading. This post is an excerpt of information from that seminar, gleaned from this article, and personal experience of speeding up reading.

So, "Project PX" is a three-hour cognitive experiment that allows you to increase your reading speed by 386%. The experiment was conducted on people speaking five languages, and even dyslexic people were trained to read up to 3,000 words of technical text per minute, 10 pages of text. Page in 6 seconds.

By comparison, the average reading speed in the US is between 200 and 300 words per minute. We have, due to the peculiarities of the language, from 120 to 180 words per minute. And you can easily increase your rates to 700-900 words per minute.

All that is needed is to understand the principles by which human vision works, what time is wasted in the process of reading and how to stop wasting it. When we analyze the mistakes and practice not making them, you will read several times faster, and not mindlessly running your eyes, but perceiving and remembering all the information you read.

Are you ready to start experimenting? Then let's start.

You will need:

• a book of at least 200 pages;
• pen or pencil;
• timer.

The book should lie in front of you without closing (press the pages if it tries to close without support).

For one exercise session, you will need at least 20 minutes. Make sure that no one distracts you during this time.

And before jumping straight into the exercises, here are some quick tips to increase your reading speed.

Make as few stops as possible when reading a line of text

When we read, the eyes move through the text not smoothly, but in jumps. Each such jump ends with fixing your attention on a part of the text or stopping your gaze at areas of about a quarter of a page, as if you are taking a picture of this part of the sheet.

Each stop of the eyes on the text lasts from 1/4 to 1/2 second.

To feel this, close one eye and lightly press the eyelid with the tip of your finger, and with the other eye try to slowly slide over the line of text. The jumps become even more obvious if you slide not along the letters, but simply along a straight horizontal line:

Well, how do you feel the jumps?

Try to go back through the text as little as possible

A person who reads at an average pace quite often goes back to reread a missed moment. This can happen consciously or unconsciously. In the latter case, the subconscious itself returns its eyes to the place in the text where concentration was lost.

On average, conscious and unconscious returns back through the text take up to 30% of the time.

Train your concentration to increase the coverage of words read in one stop

People with an average reading speed use central focus rather than horizontal peripheral vision. Due to this, they perceive half as many words in one jump of vision.

Train Skills Separately

The exercises are different and you don't have to try to combine them into one. For example, if you are practicing reading speed, don't worry about text comprehension. You will progress through three stages in sequence: learning technique, applying technique to increase speed, and reading comprehension.

Rule of thumb: Practice your technique at three times your desired reading speed. For example, if your current reading speed is somewhere around 150 words per minute, and you want to read 300 words per minute, you need to practice reading 900 words per minute.

Step One: Determine Initial Reading Speed

To begin with, we consider how many words fit in five lines of text, divide this number by five and round it up. I counted 40 words in five lines: 40:5 = 8 - an average of eight words per line.

And the last thing: we consider how many words fit on the page. To do this, we multiply the average number of lines by the average number of words per line: 39 ⋅ 8 = 312.

Now is the time to find out your reading speed. We set the timer for 1 minute and read the text, calmly and slowly, as you usually do.

How much did it turn out? I have a little more than a page - 328 words.

Step two: landmark and speed

As I wrote above, returning through the text and stopping the look takes a lot of time. But you can easily cut them down with a focus tracking tool.

A pen, pencil or even your finger will serve as such a tool. After all, when counting words and lines, you probably used a pencil or a finger that helped you not to lose count? We will use it for training.

1. Technique (2 minutes)

Practice using a pen or pencil to maintain focus. Move the pencil smoothly under the line you are currently reading and concentrate on where the tip of the pencil is now.

Set the pace with the tip of the pencil and follow it with your eyes, keeping up with stops and returns through the text. And don't worry about understanding the text, it's an exercise in speed, not comprehension.

Try to go through each line in 1 second and increase the speed with each page.

Do not linger on one line for more than 1 second under any circumstances, even if you do not understand at all what the text is about.

With this technique, I was able to read 936 words in 2 minutes, which means 460 words per minute. Interestingly, when you follow with a pen or pencil, it seems that your vision is ahead of the pencil, and you read faster. And when you try to remove it, immediately your vision seems to spread out over the page, as if the focus was released and it began to float all over the page.

2. Speed ​​(3 minutes)

Repeat the tracker technique, but allow no more than half a second to read each line (read two lines of text in the time it takes to say "twenty-two").

Most likely, you will not understand anything at all from what you read, but this is not important. Now you are training your perceptual reflexes, and these exercises help you adapt to the system. Do not slow down for 3 minutes. Concentrate on the tip of your pen and the technique for increasing speed.

In 3 minutes of such a frenzied race, I read five pages and 14 lines, averaging 586 words per minute. The hardest part of this exercise is not to slow down the speed of the pencil. It's a real block: you've been reading all your life to understand what you're reading, and it's not easy to let go of that.

Thoughts cling to the lines in an effort to return to understand what it is about, and the pencil also begins to slow down. It is also difficult to maintain concentration on such useless reading, the brain gives up, and thoughts fly away to hell, which is also reflected in the speed of the pencil.

Step three: expand the scope of perception

When you focus your eyes on the center of the monitor, you still see its extreme areas. So it is with the text: you concentrate on one word, and you see several words surrounding it.

So, the more words you learn to see in this way with the help of peripheral vision, the faster you can read. The expanded area of ​​perception allows you to increase the speed of reading by 300%.

Beginners with a normal reading speed spend their peripheral vision on the fields, that is, they run their eyes through the letters of absolutely all the words of the text, from the first to the last. At the same time, peripheral vision is spent on empty fields, and the reader loses from 25 to 50% of the time.

A pumped reader will not "read the fields". He will run his eyes over only a few words from the sentence, and see the rest with peripheral vision. In the illustration below, you see an approximate picture of the concentration of vision of an experienced reader: words in the center are read, and foggy ones are marked by peripheral vision.

Here is an example. Read this sentence:

Once, students enjoyed reading for four hours straight.

1. Technique (1 minute)

Use a pencil to read as fast as possible, start reading from the first word of the line and end with the last word on the line. That is, there is no expansion of the area of ​​​​perception yet - just repeat exercise No. 1, but spend no more than 1 second on each line. Under no circumstances should one line take more than 1 second.

2. Technique (1 minute)

Continue to set the pace of reading with a pen or pencil, but start reading from the second word on the line and finish reading the line two words before the end.

3. Speed ​​(3 minutes)

Start reading at the third word of the line and finish three words before the end, while moving your pencil at the speed of one line per half second (two lines in the time it takes to say "twenty-two").

If you don't understand a single line of what you read, that's fine. Now you are training your reflexes of perception, and you should not worry about understanding. Concentrate on the exercise with all your might and don't let your mind drift away from an uninteresting activity.

Step Four: Test Your New Speed

Now it's time to test your new reading speed. Set a timer for 1 minute and read as fast as you can while still understanding the text. I got 720 words per minute - twice as fast as before I started using this technique.

These are great indicators, but they are not surprising, because you yourself begin to notice how the scope of words has expanded. You don’t waste time on fields, you don’t go back through the text, and the speed increases significantly.

If you tried this technique right now, share your success in the comments. How many words per minute did you get before and after?

Before talking about how to learn to read quickly, you should ask the question, why do you need reading at all. What do we gain while reading literature, especially today, when paper media can be replaced with audio books and watching screen adaptations of interesting stories.

Maybe there is no longer such an urgent need for reading?

Why Reading is Necessary

Only through reading can a person develop his literacy. Agree, absolutely all the rules for writing words are remembered by few, except for teachers of the Russian language.

And a well-read person does not need these rules, since he can easily restore the spelling of any words in his memory.

Even the spelling of rarely occurring words can be reproduced on the basis of associations and knowledge of the read mass of words.

Fiction has always been a priority for reading, as it has a high vocabulary, and it is also perceived and read much easier than technical or scientific literature. And no one will argue that fiction is more interesting and exciting.

Reading develops the imaginative thinking of a person. The images in films are generated by the pictures we view. And while reading, the process of co-creation of the writer and the reader takes place. The reader's imagination creates and creates images. In the process of reading, the brain trains and develops.

The human experiences and feelings that the author conveys in literature are the lived experience of mankind. We are not able to experience all the emotions and experiences available to us in such a short life. A guide helps to educate these feelings - a book thanks to which we can subtly understand what other people feel and better understand our emotions.

Disadvantages of Traditional Reading

Scientists have been investigating the question of why people read so slowly for a long time, and they were able to identify five main disadvantages of slow traditional reading:

• Regression when reading, that is, the constant return of the eyes to the lines already read in order to re-read. Most of us return, and not even once, to the original position of the read text. This self-doubt leads to the fact that the lines read are never remembered. Multiple returns destroys the integrity of the read text.
• No reading program. We are used to reading the way we have to. But there is some literature that is really worth reading slowly and carefully. Conversely, literature that needs to be read quickly, and most of it.
• Pronunciation of a readable text to oneself, that is, articulation. People spend a sufficient amount of time on this process, since an inertial auditory analyzer is connected.
• Low field of view. The eyes perceive a maximum of three words during their stop on the text, and the speed reading technique involves covering the entire page at once. Vertical eye movement is the basis of speed reading.
• Lack of attention, which is the catalyst for the reading process. We can read even when thoughts are somewhere far away.

Speed ​​reading exercises just help to eliminate the shortcomings that we allow in the traditional reading of books. The speed reading technique forms new fundamentally different ways of reading, develops new brain structures and increases its activity. N. P. Bekhtereva said that the brain must work, and the more it works, the more effective the result of its activity.

Speed ​​Reading Basics

Despite the fact that there are many schools and methods of speed reading, they are based on the same psychological laws.

People learn to put their eyes in such a way as to see as many words as possible. Our gaze flickers from the beginning of the line to the end, and we grasp every letter, or at best every word.

In the technique of speed reading, the gaze is fixed at a certain place, with a given rhythm. The text is assimilated well and qualitatively in cases where there is symmetry or equal components. There are special techniques for expanding the field of perception, since we do not use all the breadth of perception that is possible to use.

Scientists have developed special exercises for the eyes, thanks to which the range of vision expands, and you can see a whole line instead of one word. The creation of this technique took several years of work by a large team of scientists who thoroughly studied the question: how to learn fast reading. Their designs have been tested by many experts and protected by dozens of patents.

Young people have already managed to appreciate this technique, and every year the number of those wishing to master the technique of speed reading is growing.

We read correctly

Many readers complain that the plot of the book is not as memorable as it should be. What is the reason for such a result of reading, maybe there are secrets of how to read books correctly so that you can retell its contents in a month?

1. Rereading books in the subway or in line, it is not always possible to memorize their plot. It is better to set aside time for reading in a homely, quiet and peaceful environment.
2. You should always have a pencil or marker with you, with which you can take notes or underline places that are significant to you. If it is a pity to spoil the book, then you should read with a notebook in order to write down your favorite quotes, interesting thoughts and phrases.
3. Experts advise choosing a narrower format of the book, which allows the eyes not to run around the perimeter of the page, but stick to its middle. This method makes it possible not only to assimilate information, but also to read a book faster, and also to solve the problem of how to read books correctly.
4. You should always remember about the bookmark in the book, because without it the place where the reading ends will be constantly lost. A sufficient amount of time is spent searching for a place and re-reading the places you are looking for.
5. And the most important thing in the question of how to read books correctly is not to be shy to find out the meanings of unknown words from the book, this is how the reader's vocabulary is replenished. Knowing the meanings of various words will allow you to apply them in appropriate situations.

How to succeed in reading

Make lists of literature that you need to read, so that it includes not only fiction, but also books on psychology, non-fiction or modern fiction that can broaden your horizons.

Every cultured person living in society has a certain list of what you need to know. This knowledge allows you to maintain a conversation and understand what the current world is like.

We can make large lists, but where can we get so much time to read all the literature, if, in addition, we daily deal with the texts of professional books, the Internet, instructions, and others.

We receive so much information that the average person is not always able to perceive and remember everything they hear, see or read.

For such an amount of information, the average reading technique is not enough, which is why speed reading courses and schools began to appear, where you can find out how to learn how to quickly read books and learn the skills of speed reading technique using a variety of methods and exercises.

The technique of speed reading is a hot topic for people involved in their intellectual development. A specialist of any level needs to keep up with the times and know what changes are taking place in life, about new discoveries, new names.

Analytical reading with a high quality of assimilation of the material read is necessary for schoolchildren and students in order to spend minimal time and effort on doing homework or studying new material.

Speed ​​Reading Exercises

We often catch ourselves reading a book and stop because we realize that we are thinking about something else. You have to read paragraph after paragraph again. The concentration of attention is absent, and we re-read everything again. Naturally, time is lost, and reading speed drops.

• In order to get rid of this bad habit, scientists have developed a method of forcing speed, which is based on the principle of coercion. The text is covered with a sheet of paper, and whether you read the first line or not, the next line is already revealed. A piece of paper always moves a little faster than we can read the previous line.
• Then, everything happens the other way around, regardless of whether the line is read or not, it is covered with a sheet of paper so that it is not possible to read everything again. This exercise teaches a person to concentrate.
• Another exercise that develops attention is working with noisy texts. Ordinary words are inserted into the text, breaking its harmony, which forces the reader to concentrate his attention on important information.
• An exercise that develops anticipation, that is, teaches the ability to think of a text, allows you to increase the speed of reading a few steps forward. To begin with, endings are thought out, then words and phrases, and then paragraphs can already be thought out. This is an excellent exercise for expanding the field of perception.

If you do this kind of exercise often, you can make your gaze move vertically.

When to start learning

It is foolish to argue with the fact that it is necessary to read, and constantly. It is best to teach a child to do this from childhood, but as for the development of speed reading skills, no one can answer unequivocally. There is an opinion that such reading can even harm before the age of 14, but this is only an opinion, not proven by anyone.

Psychologists believe that it is necessary to teach children, but not by force, but in the form of a game. In the meantime, there are disputes about the dangers and benefits of fast reading, life itself forces us to master this technique. Employees of large companies and government agencies, as well as those who, on duty, have to work with a large amount of documents, have already felt this.

A person who reads fast cannot become a slave to speed. By acquiring basic speed reading skills, he improves both memory and depth of perception, and no matter at what age he begins to master these skills.

What to do if you don't want to read

Reading is the main learning tool. A student who reads slowly does not have time to do anything, he loses the desire to read and learn.

It is necessary to instill a love of reading from childhood, at the same time, the creative and logical thinking of the child develops. And how to force yourself to read to an adult?

Psychologists say that you need to develop a habit in yourself. To begin with, you should select interesting literature and put aside the one that you did not like. It is also recommended to make a list of literature to create a symbol of personal achievement and accustom yourself to read at least half an hour a day.

How to force yourself to read if, with a large flow of information, access to paper is the most limited. It's easier to turn on the TV or turn to the Internet for help than it is to waste time going to the library.

Reduced interest in reading is associated not only with the accelerated rhythm of life. Modern youth is not enough of the literature that used to be part of the school curriculum. She wants to know more about the modern world, about incidents that are presented not by books, but by television and the Internet.

In order not to think about how to force yourself to read, you need to know that only a book can develop a person’s speech, as well as his logical and creative thinking, in addition, it disciplines, brings up the qualities necessary for a person.

You can instill a love of reading with exercises that teach speed reading. It is an exciting process that, with some exercise, turns from a chaotic unorganized process into an organized activity. People read faster, and most importantly, they understand what they read more fully and deeper.