
Speed reading is a skill that's best achieved by doing repetitive practice, so you'll continue working on those exercises that are helping you to improve your speed. In this lesson, you'll examine the retinal image phenomena and how it relates to a speed reader's eye movements. Finally, you'll read some stories that are formatted to help you improve your speed. For that reason, this lesson will talk about how and why you should continue doing the Regulated Reading, Timed Reading, and Assignment exercises to gain increased reading rates with good reading comprehension. From there, you can set goals to increase your reading rate while maintaining a good reading comprehension.īy now, you might feel that the activities you're using to master your speed reading skills are becoming routine and repetitive. Your results will give you a baseline that you can use to chart your speed reading progress in this course, lesson-by-lesson. Then, you'll take a reading rate and comprehension test. In this lesson, you'll practice some basic reading eye movements and learn how they're important to the speed reading process. Then, you'll complete an eye-span exercise to start you on the path toward becoming a speed reader! You'll also get an opportunity to check out some speed reading accomplishments.

You'll learn how many words per minute you read now, and then you'll compare that number to what percent of the reading material you're really comprehending. On this first day of class, you'll read a story to evaluate your present reading rate.
