Speed reading technique for children. A collection of tasks and exercises for developing reading techniques in elementary school
Types of special exercises to improve reading quality in primary school students
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Compiled by: O.V. Misheneva, primary school teacher
Tongue twisters for the sound [G]
There are jackdaws in the yard, and there are pebbles on the shore.
Gregory carried the pie across the threshold. He stood on the peas and fell on the threshold.
Our head over-headed your head, out-headed.
Tongue twisters for the sound [Ш]
Funny jokes from Sasha and Mishutka.
Stesha was in a hurry, she sewed the shirt, but she was in a hurry - she didn’t finish the sleeve.
The jackal walked, the jackal galloped. Checkers on the table, cones on the pine tree.
Six little mice rustle in a hut.
They spank the gander with the gander and the gander.
Tongue twisters for the sound [Zh]
The train rushes by grinding: je, che, sha, sha.
I walk and repeat, I sit and repeat, I lie and repeat:
Zhi, zha, zha, zhu. The hedgehog has a hedgehog, the snake has a squeeze.
The snake was bitten by the snake.
I can't get along with the snake.
I've already become terrified -
The snake will eat it for dinner.
Tongue twisters for the sound [Ч and Ш]
The bristles of a pig, the scales of a pike.
The thicket in our forest is cleaner, the thicket is thicker in our forest.
In a suitcase by a tap dancer
Brushes, rosary beads, abacus - for my aunt.
Rosaries, abacus, brushes - for the guy,
Abacus, brushes, rosary - for the nanny.
Only tap dancing - for myself.
A clear family is dancing.
Tongue twisters for the sound [H]
Four turtles have four turtles.
Four little black little imps were drawing a drawing in black ink. Extremely clean.
The bird was stuffed with matches.
Our daughter is eloquent, her speech is clear.
Tongue twisters for the sound [Ш]
Two puppies are nipping cheek to cheek at a brush in the corner.
The pike tries in vain to pinch the bream.
Tongue twisters for the sound [R]
In the forest, the beaver and the beaver's brother work without an axe.
During a thunderstorm, the body collapsed from the load of watermelons.
There are tomatoes in Fedora's garden. Behind Fedora's fence are fly agaric mushrooms.
Millet is flying in Frosya's field, Frosya is taking out the weeds.
Makar gave Roman a caramel, and Roman gave Makar a pencil.
They gave the little one corn, and the little one asks for a watermelon.
The sparrows are waiting at the feeder for food, Markushka is bringing them cloudberries in her pocket.
Behind the cockroach with a drum, behind the mosquito with an axe.
The queen's gentlemen sailed to her on a caravel.
Charles stole half a crucian carp and half a carp from Polycarp.
The wise raven quickly tore fly agarics from the ditch.
A crab crept onto the ship, and crucian carp stole the gangplank.
One swarm of mosquitoes is behind the mountain, and the second swarm is under the mountain.
Open the gates, Uvar, we are carrying loads of firewood.
The path is trodden along the grass.
Tongue twisters jump like crucian carp in a frying pan.
Early in the morning two rams drum on drums.
Roma Masha picked daisies.
The pig dug and dug, dug half a snout.
From the mountain - not uphill, uphill - not from the mountain.
The pig was stupid, dug up the whole yard, dug half a snout, but didn’t get to the hole.
The gray rams beat the drums, beat them indiscriminately - they broke their foreheads.
Timoshka Troshke crumbles crumbs into okroshka.
Three trumpeters blow their trumpets.
The nimble mink darted into the hole.
Tongue twisters for the sound [R and L]
I was at Frol’s, I lied to Frol about Lavra, I’ll go to Lavra, I lie to Lavra about Frol.
There are three crucian carp and three carp in Polycarp's pond.
All beavers are kind to their beavers.
Karl stole corals from Clara, Clara stole a clarinet from Karl.
Valya's Clara is playing the piano.
The Queen gave the gentleman a caravel.
The quail flew before the quail, before the quails.
On Mount Ararat Varvara was picking grapes.
Eagle on the mountain, feather on the eagle.
The fellow ate thirty-three pies, all with cottage cheese.
Thirty-three ships tacked, tacked, tacked, but did not tack.
The crow missed the crow.
Get up, Arkhip, the rooster is hoarse.
1. Exercises aimed at developing clarity of pronunciation
Many students do not know how to regulate their breathing while reading. Breathing exercises are used to correct this deficiency.
1) Inhale through your nose - exhale through your mouth. Inhale – hold your breath – exhale. Inhale and exhale in portions.
2) “The beep is approaching and moving away”: inhale - while exhaling we say mm-mm-mm, n-n-n-n-n.
3) “Dog growl”: inhale - exhale r-r-r-r-r.
4) “Air coming out of a punctured bicycle tire”: s-s-s-s-s.
5) “Candle”: Taking a deep breath, exhale evenly and slowly, then take a deep breath, stop and slowly blow on the flame of an imaginary candle.
6) “Put out the candle”: intense intermittent exhalation, then inhale, hold your breath for a second, then exhale three times in short bursts: ugh! Ugh! Ugh!
7) A fly flew near my ear: w-w-w.
A wasp flew near my nose: ssss.
A mosquito flew and rang: z-z-z.
He sat on his forehead, we slammed him -
And they caught it: s-z-z.
Let it fly!
2. Exercises to develop the mobility of the speech apparatus: “Sound warm-up”
1) Read quickly, look carefully:
OIE AOEA EAEOIO
YAOYU AYOOE EYYUYAU
YYYYYUYYYUYYYYYYYYYYYYUYYYYYU
2) We read vowels with emphasis on one of them:
EAOEUYIE, EAOEUYIE, EAOEUYIE, etc.
You can diversify this exercise by pronouncing the syllables first with emphasis on the 1st syllable, then on the 2nd and 3rd:
YES-YES-YES, YES-YES-YES, YES-YES-YES
3) Taking a deep breath, as you exhale, read 15 consonants of one row (with sounds):
B K Z S T R M N V Z R Sh L N X
4) Read the chain of syllables:
Use these colorful three-letter word cards to teach your child how to read.
5) Read words with build-up:
Po - cook, heat, dare, drink, walked, led.
3. Exercises that develop lateral vision and practice direct gaze
1) In order for children to be able to understand the essence of the terms “lateral vision” and “right angle”, they are asked, without taking their eyes off one line, to list the objects that fall into the field of vision on the right, left, above, below.
2) Handout – Schulte table (size 20x20cm)
Usage algorithm:
As quickly as possible, name all the numbers in order from 10 to 25, pointing with a pencil or finger;
Try to remember the location of two or three consecutive numbers at once.
Remember! The eyes look at the center of the table, at the number 10, but see it all as a whole.\
Such a card can be given to students to gradually fill in the letters and sounds they have learned.
A a O o U y y I and E e
E e E e Yu yu I I
B b C c D g F f Z h D d
P p F f K k W w S s T t
L l M m N n R r X x C c
Th
4. Exercises that develop attention to the word and its parts and are a prerequisite for correct and speed reading
Children have a poorly developed articulatory apparatus, which inhibits rapid reading, so the following exercises are relevant in 1st and 2nd grades:
1) Reading combinations of two or three consonants with vowels:
2) Read, slowly, at a moderate pace: speeding up the pace:
ZhZI TNO KTRI
DRU ZBI SRU
The sparrow_ sat_ on a branch_ and chirped.
Tongue Twisters
Lena was looking for a pin.
The pin fell under the bench.
I was too lazy to crawl under the bench,
I was looking for a pin all day.
a) Read the tongue twisters orthographically.
b) Read the tongue twisters spelling.
c) Working with tablets: children read the tongue twister in accordance with the assignment:
quiet
loud
in a whisper
silent film (silent)
"The house that Jack built"
Children pronounce the first phrase at maximum speed several times until they succeed. Then 1-2 more words are added, which are read at the same speed. And so on until the end of the passage, repeating everything from the beginning each time, as in the famous poem “The House That Jack Built.” For example:
In some kingdom... In some kingdom, in some state... In a certain kingdom, in a certain state, there lived... In a certain kingdom, in a certain state, there lived a rich merchant...
5. Exercises that develop working memory and stability of attention.
"Find the extra letter"
O I B I U
You can cut out any texts from old newspapers and distribute them to children.
Exercise: today we cross out only the letter I. Tomorrow – another, etc.
"Find the extra word"
Read it. Justify your choice.
ELEPHANT BEAR TIGER
LION BUTTERFLY CAT
"Photo Eye"
In 20 seconds, children must “photograph” the words with their eyes and answer the question “Are among these words...?” For example:
WALNUT STREAM FEATHERS ACCELERATED TROPICAL STUNNED
"Yes or no?"
Children listen to the sentences and determine whether it can be. If yes, when, where, why? If not, then this needs to be explained with evidence.
Snow fell, Alyosha went out to sunbathe. The car whistled at the same speed and moved forward.
This exercise is aimed at attention to the text, its conscious mastery, the ability to quickly grasp the meaning of what is being read, and accurately construct a statement.
“Add sentence”
The cat meowed...
6. Exercises that develop flexibility and speed of reading silently and aloud
"Peekaboo"
The textbook page (any) is indicated, and then the text is read. Children must find the page, look for the right line with their eyes and adapt to the teacher’s reading.
Reading with word counting
Memo:
1) clench your lips and teeth tightly;
2) read only with your eyes;
3) read as quickly as possible, while counting the words of the text to yourself;
4) answer the question about the text (given before reading).
Reading with a sound guide
The text is read into the tape recorder at a certain speed. Children must follow the voice of the book and have time to voice the text synchronously with the tape recorder. The check is carried out individually: touching the child’s shoulder with your hand means read aloud. It is advisable to carry out such work systematically. At the same time, the sound speed of the “sound reference” gradually increases. If there is no tape recorder in the class, you can use the game exercise “Catch up.” Children read a passage of text in chorus, in a low voice, listening to the voice of the teacher, who reads loudly, at a fairly high speed, and “reach out” for him, trying to “catch up.”
7. Exercises that promote the synthesis of perception and understanding
1) Help vowels and consonants make friends. Combine them to make the words:
2) Take out one letter from each word. Do this so that from the remaining ones you get a new word:
regiment paint slope screen trouble heat (count) (helmet) (elephant) (crane) (food) (field)
3) Add a letter to the beginning or end of a word to make a new word. What sounds are represented by these letters?
4) Connect the words of the right and left columns so that new words are formed:
"Tasty words"
Imagine it's your birthday. You need to set the table. But when choosing treats, remember that their names should consist of two or three syllables:
halva bagels tea lemonade waffles grapes cherry tangerine
8. Exercises that develop logical thinking
These exercises help develop the speed of thinking in the reading process and its awareness.
1) Perform a mathematical operation and read the word:
LOD + IM – MO + VAN – L = ? (sofa)
VER + FOX + TU – US + 0 – IL + YEARS = ? (helicopter)
2) Rearrange the letters:
A calf is sitting on a pine tree in the forest. The tail rests against the rest of the area. He knocks on the trunk with his nose, he works, he looks for insects.
(In the forest, a woodpecker sits on a pine tree. Its tail rests against the tree trunk. It knocks on the trunk with its nose, gouges the bark, and looks for insects).
3) "Search"
Can you find a connection between two seemingly unrelated events? Explain how everything happened.
The dog chased the chicken. The schoolchildren were unable to go on the excursion.
4) Learn to express thoughts in other words.
The exercise is aimed at teaching the child to use words.
This winter will be very cold.
It is necessary to convey the same idea without distortion, but in different words. None of the words in this sentence should be used in new sentences.
5) Compiling sentences with three words that are not related to each other in meaning:
lake bear pencil
For example:
We drew with a pencil how a bear catches a fish on a forest lake.
The exercise develops the ability to establish connections between objects and phenomena, think creatively, and create new holistic images from disparate objects.
9. Exercises to develop conscious reading skills
9.1. Logic exercises
1) What do these words have in common and how do they differ?
Chalk is shallow, small is crumpled, soap is sweet.
2) Name it in one word.
Siskin, swallow, rook, owl, swift. Scissors, pliers, hammer, saw, rake. Scarf, mittens, coat, jacket. TV, iron, vacuum cleaner, refrigerator. Potatoes, beets, onions, cabbage. Horse, cow, pig, sheep. Shoes, boots, slippers, sneakers. Linden, birch, spruce, pine.
3) Which word is missing?
Beautiful, blue, red, yellow. Minute, time, hour, second. Road, highway, path, path. Milk, sour cream, curdled milk, meat.
4) How are the following words similar?
Iron, blizzard, stick, clock, lamp, glass.
5) Make up a new word by taking the first syllable from each of the given words.
Ear, mouth, vase. Cora, lotto, boxer. Milk, spawning, plate.
6) Three words are given. The first two are in a certain connection. There is the same connection between the third and one of the five proposed words in brackets. Find the fourth word.
a) Song - composer, plane - ... (airfield, fuel, designer, pilot, fighter). b) School - training, hospital - ... (doctor, student, treatment, patient). c) Knife - steel, chair - ... (fork, wood, table, food, tablecloth).
7) Divide the words into groups.
Hare, peas, hedgehog, bear, cabbage, wolf, cucumber. Cow, wardrobe, chair. Sofa. Goat, sheep, table. Poppy, linden, maple, chamomile, birch, lily of the valley, oak.
9.2. Word making games
1) Find the word in the word.
thunderstorm newspaper bush
joke tray chocolate
watchmaker sliver fair
2) Complete the sentence.
In the mornings, Dr. Aibolit treats the teeth of animals: zbrey, itgyr, vdryy, ybbr .
3) Charades.
The beginning is the voice of a bird, The end is at the bottom of the pond, And the whole thing is in the museum It will be found without difficulty.
(Painting).
With the letter K I live in the forest. With the letter CH, I herd sheep.
(Boar - shepherd).
4) Find the name of the animals among the lines.
The pump sucks the river water,
And the hose will be extended to the garden.
There is peace among the bushes,
It's good to wander here alone.
10. Exercises to develop correct reading skills
1) Describe the object (the teacher shows it and quickly puts it away).
2) Repeat what the teacher said:
A barrel is a dot, a grandmother is a butterfly, a cat is a spoon.
3) Choose words for a given sound (from a read quatrain, sentence, text).
4) Reading words that differ by one letter.
Chalk - stranded - soap - small - crumpled; mouse - midge - bear - bowl.
5) Reading words that have the same prefixes and endings.
Came, came, sewed, brought, chorus; red, white, blue, black. yellow; doll, mom, dad, paw, spoon.
6) Reading “reversals”.
The lion ate the oxen. Go find a taxi, go.
11. Exercises to develop expressive reading
1) Reading sentences with different intonations.
2) Reading a text with the transmission of emotions (joy, indignation, sadness, pride, etc.) depending on the content.
3) Dictionary of moods.
A mood dictionary is very helpful in working on expressive reading. Every student has one. After the teacher has read the work expressively, the children place cards on their desks with words that indicate the mood they felt while reading the work. For example, children receive cards with the words:"cheerful", "joyful". Analyzing the work, we come closer to the question: what feelings did the author himself experience? And we write down other words on the board that reflect the author’s mood: (cheerful, joyful, happy, surprise, excitement ).
After such work, children read the text much more expressively, trying to convey both their personal mood and the mood of the author through reading.
"Dictionary of moods and states"
Restless, combative
Friendly, joyful
Cheerful, fearful
Whimsical, timid
Stormy. funny
Light, angry
Excited
Serious
Indignant
Mournful
Magic
funny
Heroic
Sleepy, sunny
good-natured
Sympathizers
Creepy
Calm
Mysterious
Mysterious
Jubilant
Dreary
Sad
Playful
mocking
Boastful
FRIENDS
Ni-ki-ta and Le-sha are friends. They go to kindergarten together. Le-shi has a sa-mo-kat. And Nik-ki-you has a gun. Not real, but toy. These boys are great guys. O-ni always do-la-tsya ig-rush-ka-mi. And they never quarrel. The two of them play and laugh. It's good to be friends!
HORSE
Petya and Misha had a horse. They began to argue: whose horse is it? Did they start tearing each other's horses?
Give it to me, this is my horse.
No, give it to me, the horse is not yours, but mine.
The mother came, took the horse, and the horse became no one’s.
CAT AND BUG
There was a fight between Zhuch-koy and Kosh-koy.
The cat started eating, and the bug came. Cat-ka Zhuch-ku la-sing for the nose.
Bug, grab the cat by the tail.
Cat-bug in the eye. Bug the cat behind the neck.
Te-cha walked past, carried a bucket of water and began to pour water on Kosh-ku and Zhuch-ku.
GAL-KA
I want to drink something.
There was a jug of water in the yard, but there was no water in the jug, only at the bottom. It would be impossible for Gal-ka to get it.
She began to throw ka-mush-ki into the jug and so much so that the water became taller and could be drunk
SPRING
The spring came, the water flowed. The children took it up to the cheeks, made a boat, put a boat in the water. The little girl swam, and the children ran after her, screaming, and couldn’t see anything ahead of themselves and in the blue I'm sorry I fell.
PUPPY
Ta-nya was coming from school. On the do-ro-ge o-na u-vi-de-la ma-lazy puppy. He sat by the fence and howled. Ta-nya po-gla-di-la puppy. He began to lick Ta-not's hand. Ta-nya took the puppy home. Do-ma Ta-nya give e-moo-lo-ka. That's why Ta-nya let the puppy sleep by the stove. The puppy got used to Ta-na. Ta-nya was worried about him.
SLY FOX
Li-sa would be hungry. O-la lay down on the snow and closed his eyes. Are there any vor-nos and they're not far from the li-sa. O-they wanted to peck at the li-su, but I was afraid. Li-sa lies as if dead. Then they are very close. One of them wanted to peck the fox in the tail, the other wanted to peck it in the nose. Li-sa jumped up and grabbed the glu-pu-yu in the-ro-nu.
BY SKI
Misha was seven years old. Pa-pa ku-drank e-skis. Mi-sha grabbed his skis and went up the mountain. But the skis did not go up the mountain. Mi-sha took the skis in his hands and went up the mountain. You were skiing down the mountain. O-ni u-chi-li Mi-shu. Mi-sha got on his skis and began to walk. He immediately fell. The second time Mi-sha fell the same way. That's why Mi-sha na-u-chil-sya. Mi-sha came home on skis and was so excited that he learned to ski.
TITmouse
It was cold in winter. To the window, pri-le-te-la si-nich-ka. She would be cold. At the window at the hundred-I-de-ti. They felt sorry for the si-nich-ku. O-never opened the for-point. Si-nich-ka l-te-la in the room. The bird was hungry. Oh, I started pecking the bread crumbs on the table. All winter she lived with the children. In the spring, you were allowed to go free.
BABIES
It was in winter. The mother left the stove and went to the store.
The house was the only one left. Little Ko-lya opened the stove and stuck it in there. She smacked and fell on the floor. And there were chips on the floor. The fire glowed brightly. The children were frantic, screaming and screaming. The neighbor came running and started firing.
DOG ORDER
Odin the soldier was wounded in the arm and leg. He fell. To-va-ri-shchi-li-da-le-ko. The patient lay in bed for two days. Suddenly he hears: a snort. That would be sa-ni-tar-na-ya so-ba-ka. On her back there was a bag with a red cross: there were bandages and medicines. The ra-ne-ny per-vtvya-hall itself. So-ba-ka-be-zha-la and soon pri-ve-la sa-ni-ta-drov.
There was a spa in the past.
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Reading quickly and comprehending what you read is the path to a bright future for a child. All processes of cognition in school itself and, even more so, after it are based on reading. The level of achievement is directly related to the child’s reading speed.
The speed reading technique has its own methods, which can be comprehended through special exercises. Reading is a complex mental process; it includes comprehension of what is read and technical correctness, expressiveness and speed.
When can you teach speed reading to children?
It is not for nothing that in the primary grades teachers pay so much attention to checking reading speed and the absence of distortions. Every year, speed reading tests are taken in the lower grades. Here are approximate standards that it is advisable to adhere to:
- During the first year at school, the child should learn to read 30 words per minute.
- By the end of the second year, the norm increases to 50 words per minute
- In third grade - 70 words
- And by the end of the fourth year, 100 words
These standards vary somewhat depending on the standards of the educational institution itself. But it’s time to teach your child to master speed reading—primary school. Because the ability to perceive information and remember it, when thinking is not yet fixated by any taboos, is the best time to learn speed reading. The baby is not yet surprised that fairy-tale animals speak and dragons live in the forest. For a child, the natural process is to invent unrealistic characters, connecting them together logically, from the point of view of adults, in ways that are impossible.
Errors leading to decreased reading speed in children
When trying to teach your child to read quickly, you may encounter some difficulties. The fast reading technique provides for some rules; breaking them, the level of speed of information absorption, which a priori should be high, is lost.
- Speed reading for children has its own problems - one of the main ones is articulation or pronunciation of words, as well as inner speech. When a child tries to say everything he has read out loud or mentally, this reduces the speed at which he absorbs information significantly. Therefore, if you want to teach your child to read quickly and fluently enough so that the speed reading technique is at its best, try to eliminate this factor. But in this case, we are talking about children who can already read quite fluently, without errors, that is, 8-10 years old.
- The eye must see not only the point where the gaze is directed, but also within a certain radius around it. As a rule, children have a small field of vision. But there are very few methods for expanding a child’s field of vision.
- The next error that slows down reading speed is the regression effect. This is the most common drawback. The method of increasing reading speed does not allow you to make reverse eye movements in order to read what has already been covered again. The habit of regressing is formed very tightly and is difficult to eradicate, so it is worth teaching the child not to make this mistake from the beginning. Pay attention to returns in the text: is it a lack of attention or misunderstanding of what was read?
However, there is an exception - if regression occurs as a result of rethinking or the emergence of new ideas, then this is called reception and is a justified action.
But, since the goal of the speed reading technique is to develop speed reading in children, it is better to comprehend a previously read text after the entire text has been read. Otherwise, unnecessary eye movements are considered a fault leading to slow reading. Freeing yourself from regression increases your reading speed by a factor of two or three.
In addition to the above, the perception of information during speed reading is hampered by the problem of the child not understanding the meaning of the text. Psychologists interpret understanding as a connection between a subject and existing knowledge. When memorizing a text, you first need to understand it better.
Exercises to develop speed reading skills
The first important rule of how to learn speed reading is to fulfill the norm every day. Set the norm for your child yourself, according to his age. In case of constant repetition of actions, speed reading methods begin to be included as a program for technical re-equipment of the brain. That is, this is not at all for the elite, which is important for the parents of every child.
There are many techniques for how to cover a larger piece of text, comprehending it instantly and at the same time remembering it. But to achieve this result, you need to do some simple exercises.
Anagrams
Decoding anagrams is a great way to train your brain. The child needs to read the name of the animal, despite the fact that the word is mixed. You need to start with simple words. Here's an example:
PDANA LTSIISA MVEDDEY KSHOKA SAKBOA SLOYANNOK DLEFYIN LASHOD
Every adult can easily read these words; not everyone will even notice that the letters in them are rearranged. An anagram can be an entire text. Here is an excerpt from L. Tolstoy’s story “Childhood”:
“Voldoya visibly became depressed: it must be that he was laughing at the fact that he was riding on the Ochthonian road, and pretending that he was very sweet. It may also be that he already had too much good sense and too little imagination to fully enjoy the igyuro at Rosinbon. This game was based on the previous story from Ronibzon, which we read shortly before the issue.”
In addition to being a good impetus for the development of speed reading, such a text will be interesting to the child because it represents a riddle. Parents themselves can make similar puzzles from any text. Using such a text as an example, a child can see for himself how ineffective reading by words or letters is. The next level of this method can be the transition to slid (gliding) reading, when the gaze no longer lingers on any of the words or phrases, but glides over the text. Sliding allows you not to read the letters at all; your eyes choose the meaning on their own.
In tow
To reach the level of sliding reading, do the “In Tow” exercise with your child. The child reads aloud, and you follow the text with your finger. First, move your finger along the line, and then gradually begin to speed up the speed of your finger movement. Thus, you set the child’s reading speed, as if pulling him in tow. At the same time, he will strive to keep up with you, increasing his reading speed.
Tongue Twisters
Another useful exercise for kids that increases reading speed is. Start with a simple “sh-sh-sh the snake is crawling”, “z-z-z-zh-zh-zh-zh-zh-zh-zh-zh-zh-zh-flying”, “sss-s-s-pouring sugar” and so on. Invite your child to pronounce several consonant letters together BGD, TRP, SPF, MDT, RPSh, SZP, KRH. Then you can substitute one vowel into the sound combinations and offer to read it as a sentence: BGDA TRPU SPFE MDTO RPSHI SZPYU KRHE.
Expanding the field of view
The small radius of lateral vision greatly slows down the reading speed. In this case, the child is not able to simultaneously see several words at once. His gaze is fixed on one single word. There are good exercises for this:
- Draw a sun in the center of the sheet. Draw a circle around the sun. Ask your child to look only at the sun, but name the other shapes.
- Draw a table of numbers. Let the numbers be arranged in 4 columns and 5 rows. Write the numbers out of order. Invite your child, pointing with his finger, to name all the numbers from 1 to the maximum number as quickly as possible.
- We develop photo memory. We print the words ICE CREAM CREEK CAT FEATHER HAND SOFA. We invite the child to look at the words for 20 seconds. Then we ask the question, is the word “...” among these words?
- We play “finds” with words. Tell your child the page number and start reading. Its task is to find the page, the specified text and adjust to your reading pace.
Are your eyes tired?
There is nothing complicated in such training, the main thing is daily practice. During classes, be sure to do simple gymnastics for your child’s eyes:
- Close your eyes. Lightly press your eyeballs with your palms.
- Under closed eyelids, rotate your eyes 4 times in each direction.
- Now slowly open your eyes.
- Repeat the rotations with your eyes open.
- Hold your gaze at the tip of your nose, then move it to the sky. Repeat several times.
- Finally, lightly press your palms onto your eyelids again.
Memory: how it relates to fast reading and how to develop it to improve reading speed
Children think completely differently than adults. Children don’t think so much as they perceive and absorb. In their perception, everything is very connected, all images, actions, feelings - everything is inextricably linked. Children can be amazed when they see an ordinary stone. Their perception is much brighter than that of an adult individual.
What memory is is images and connections, analogies deposited in the depths of consciousness. A person remembers what particularly touched him. This is why we remember how dad’s beard smelled in our childhood, but we don’t remember the sodium benzoate formula from the education system program. Because they were inanimate memories. How to develop a child’s memory so that his studies are successful?
Children when learning to speed read have the following problem: the child reads a sentence, after reading 6-7 words, he forgets where he started reading. To do this, develop his imaginative thinking. A child will remember much more words if he perceives them as pictures and events. An excellent way to achieve this is to learn to imagine what is happening on the screen of your inner vision, as if it were a cartoon or a movie. Such “videos” need to accompany the material being read in your mind, then it will not be difficult to “rewind the film” and remember the meaning of what was written earlier.
Try to ask your child non-standard questions:
- Draw an animal that hides from the milestones, so no one has seen it.
- Sing what songs the clouds sing.
- What color is your mother's perfume?
- What happens if you touch the blue color in the rainbow?
Ask your child to describe what kind of associations arise in his thoughts when he hears words (name words that are well known to him first): pear, book, doctor, backpack, dog, sand, smile, speed, and so on. When the child understands the task well and begins to cope with it easily, then complicate it - let the child listen to unfamiliar words and try to draw analogies with them.
Another exercise: collect a whole set of buttons, small construction set parts, pieces of different materials, paper, and so on. Speak words to the child, and let him try to put together from this improvised mosaic what he imagines with this word.
It is useful to play “revive”. Let the child take any object and bring it to life, giving it intelligence. What will he do when he becomes alive? Let the child compose a whole story about this object and who he became when he came to life.
It is very important that the process of quick reading does not become a mechanical repetition of words whose meaning is incomprehensible to the child. It is necessary not only to quickly read the work, but also to understand and feel it. This is the full reading process.
Today's world offers us a gigantic amount of information and knowledge from various fields, which we need to be able to quickly and effectively absorb. This online course is intended for people who want to quickly and free learn speed reading techniques at home. This course program consists of several lessons on developing key skills for developing the ability to read quickly, which you can learn on your own in a few weeks. The methodology of our classes is suitable for both children and adults, and contains numerous techniques and exercises to learn to read faster.
And if you want to master the speed reading technique as quickly and efficiently as possible, sign up for ours.
It’s hard to imagine that 20-30 years ago, in order to find an answer to a question, you had to go to the library, take out books on a topic that interests you, and look for the desired materials there. Nowadays, it’s enough just to ask the corresponding query to the search engine and get a huge amount of information on the issue that interests you.
Now there is no problem of lack of information, but there is a problem of its overabundance, in which a person gets lost. In the modern information space you need to be able to navigate in order to make this space useful for yourself. One of the most useful skills is the ability to quickly, and most importantly, usefully perceive the information that we see in our laptops, e-books, iPhone, iPad and all other sources of information, including newspapers and books.
The ability to quickly read an article, book, textbook, as well as understand and assimilate the material, will allow you to become more effective and successful than you were before. And most importantly, it will save your time, which becomes one of the most important resources. This section contains useful materials on how to master speed reading techniques with a high level of effective information perception.
Today By taking the time to master speed reading techniques, tomorrow you will be able to receive and process more information, while remaining the master of your saved time.
What is speed reading?
Speed reading (or quick reading) is the ability to quickly perceive text information using special reading methods. Fast reading is 3-4 times faster than normal reading. (Wikipedia).
One of the most popular “speed reading” schools in Russia, the school of Oleg Andreev, says that after completing 2 levels of training, you can achieve a reading speed of 10,000 characters per minute, which is approximately 5-7 pages of an average book.
It turns out that in a half-hour trip on the subway at this speed you can read 150-200 pages of a book. This is much more than the average person will read in that amount of time.
In addition to the “Oleg Andreev School”, such well-known experts in speed reading as Natalia Grace, Andrei Spodin, Vladimir and Ekaterina Vasiliev and many others offer their courses. However, some people learned to read quickly without attending courses, schools, trainings and special centers, as well as without reading textbooks on speed reading - you even know many of them, these are Maxim Gorky, Vladimir Lenin, Thomas Edison and many others. Therefore, try to learn it yourself first, especially since it will not cost you anything.
How fast do you read?
We suggest you check how fast you read. To do this, read the text in the exercise below and answer a few questions to help you understand it.
Course Description
This course is designed to master the skill of speed reading. This speed reading skill is most useful for studying Internet resources, information articles, reading newspapers, magazines, popular science literature, and textbooks. Fast reading will allow you not only to read texts faster, but also to better master information - find it and remember it in order of priority.
This training involves daily exercise at home or at work for 20-40 minutes (you can do it less often, but then the effect will be less). The course consists of 5 stages, each of which involves mastering certain skills that help you read quickly. To master a skill, it is important to practice more - read articles on resources that interest you (for example, sections you like on Wikipedia), read newspapers, magazines, textbooks - devote at least an additional half hour a day to this.
With this training regimen, you will get results in just a couple of weeks, and if you study for 2-3 months, you will be able to significantly increase the speed and quality of reading.
How to learn to read quickly?
To learn to read quickly on this site, simply follow the exercises described in the 5 lessons. If we try to generalize various techniques for teaching speed reading, then the process of mastering this skill can be divided into 5 parts (these are 5 lessons). Each lesson allows you to master a specific skill that will improve your reading speed and efficiency in mastering the material. The content of the lessons is structured in such a way that you can study online as interactively and conveniently as possible without teachers or tutors.
First, watch all the lessons, try to do the exercises, if a skill is given to you quickly, then do not stop for a long time on this lesson. For example, many people do not have trouble paying attention when reading and are able to skip straight to Lesson 2. Pay more attention to lessons and activities that:
- seem useful to you
- cause you problems.
It is not necessary to go through the exercises in the sequence indicated in the lessons, the main thing is to achieve the goal for each part.
5 Quick Reading Lessons
5 Skills Helpful to Reading Faster which you can learn on our website:
1. Focus(LESSON 1)
You've probably noticed that an interesting book is read in one sitting and faster than a boring textbook. Also, for example, when reading an interesting book, you gradually speed up, immersing yourself in the reading process... Attention for speed reading is very important, and most importantly, it can be trained.
2. Suppression of articulation (speaking text)(LESSON 2)
Most people have the habit of reading a text by speaking it to themselves. If you want to read the text quickly, you need to do it “silently”, that is, freeing yourself from articulation.
3. Improving visual skills(LESSON 3)
The ability to see all the text at once in a paragraph or even on a page, to understand its structure, to read not from left to right, but from top to bottom (or, as they say, “diagonally”) is an important skill in fast reading. Therefore, visual skills also need to be trained, and in life they can be useful when driving a car, in team sports, etc. The lesson presents special tables and a simulator for training speed reading.
4. Read and manage information quickly(LESSON 4)
It's no secret that most texts have only a small part of useful information that you must learn to quickly find. This skill most often comes with reading experience, but you can speed up this process with the help of special exercises.
5. Speed reading and memory development(LESSON 5)
When you learn to read quickly, you will be able to absorb a fairly large amount of information. But the skill of fast reading may turn out to be useless if what you read is forgotten, which in principle is not strange, given such a volume of information. You need to be able to remember this information.
In addition, the site provides additional materials on quick reading: books and textbooks, videos, simulators and programs, materials for downloading, as well as articles with comments and reviews from social networks.
Speed reading is a powerful engine for the development of intelligence. A person who has this skill reads 1-7 books a week, spending significantly less time.
Speed reading includes: speed, comprehension, and memory of what you read. With this skill, you can quickly study a subject, area, specialization, or science of interest.
The more a person reads useful literature, the more educated and intellectual he becomes. With speed reading, intelligence develops with virtually no restrictions. Its development is similar to driving a car compared to walking speed. When the brain works in turbo mode, there is no time to think and pronounce words, understanding comes instantly. The brain no longer wastes time on talking and extraneous thoughts.
Exercises online
Schulte tables
They develop peripheral vision, searching for the desired element in the text, memory, concentration, and speed of thinking. This is the most popular exercise for developing speed reading. Click on the start button and look for numbers from 1 to 16, looking only at the center of the table.
Red-black Gorbov-Schulte tables
First find the black minimum number, then the red maximum, then the next black minimum and the next red maximum. For example, for a table of size 5x5: 1 and 12, 2 and 11, 3 and 10, and so on.
Anagrams
Solve words for a while, learn to see the whole word.
Letter search
The faster you find letters, the faster you will navigate the text.
Search for numbers
We train in finding numbers by analogy with Searching for letters:
Reading by sighting
School course for the development of speed reading
To quickly and easily achieve the required speed, I recommend signing up for the Speed Reading course in 30 days. In this course we will work:
- with classic exercises
- synchronize the hemispheres of the brain to speed up brain function
- use techniques that I have personally developed to accelerate reading speed
- understand the psychology of speed reading
- address questions from other course participants.
Reviews about the course
School courses for the development of intelligence
Interactive development courses
In addition to the Speed Reading in 30 Days course, brainapps interactive courses are perfect for developing speed reading, memory, and attention. For 490 rubles a month or 1400 a year you get 4 browser-based programs for training speed reading, memory, attention and a bunch of games for brain fitness.
For example, among the exercises there is a game “Find all the words”. In this game, 256 letters will be shown on the screen, of which only 3 words are made that need to be found. This exercise trains the eyes to quickly search for the right words in the text, which significantly speeds up speed reading. Other exercises in this course train other skills important for speed reading.
Development of memory and attention in a child 5-10 years old
The purpose of the course: to develop the child’s memory and attention so that it is easier for him to study at school, so that he can remember better.
After completing the course, the child will be able to:
- 2-5 times better to remember texts, faces, numbers, words
- Learn to remember for a longer period of time
- The speed of recalling the necessary information will increase
Super memory in 30 days
As soon as you sign up for this course, you will begin a powerful 30-day training in the development of super-memory and brain pumping.
Within 30 days after subscribing, you will receive interesting exercises and educational games in your email that you can apply in your life.
We will learn to remember everything that may be needed in work or personal life: learn to remember texts, sequences of words, numbers, images, events that happened during the day, week, month, and even road maps.
We speed up mental arithmetic, NOT mental arithmetic
Secret and popular techniques and life hacks, suitable even for a child. From the course you will not only learn dozens of techniques for simplified and quick multiplication, addition, multiplication, division, and calculating percentages, but you will also practice them in special tasks and educational games! Mental arithmetic also requires a lot of attention and concentration, which are actively trained when solving interesting problems.
Secrets of brain fitness, training memory, attention, thinking, counting
If you want to speed up your brain, improve its functioning, improve your memory, attention, concentration, develop more creativity, perform exciting exercises, train in a playful way and solve interesting problems, then sign up! 30 days of powerful brain fitness are guaranteed to you:)
Money and the Millionaire Mindset
Why are there problems with money? In this course we will answer this question in detail, look deep into the problem, and consider our relationship with money from psychological, economic and emotional points of view. From the course you will learn what you need to do to solve all your financial problems, start saving money and invest it in the future.
Bottom line
To quickly develop your intelligence, practice speed reading. Speed reading will help develop intelligence and turn the brain into a supercomputer, making a genius out of an ordinary person.
In this article I talked about 5 classic exercises for developing speed reading. These exercises will increase your reading speed by 2 times in 2-4 weeks.
For each person, learning to read begins with recognizing letters, then syllables; over time, our vision is already capable of covering whole words and composing sentences from them. This technique is quite enough to read up to 300 words per minute, but in the modern world, with a huge amount of information and knowledge, you need to not only be able to read, but do it quickly and as efficiently as possible. Helps to achieve high speed of perception of printed text speed reading — ability at least 3-4 times absorb information faster without deteriorating understanding of the material.
Those who have fully mastered the skills of this technique count tens of thousands of words per minute. Among advantages of speed reading technique- the ability to increase the volume of memorized text, save time on studying it, develop attention and significantly speed up thought processes. In this article we will talk about speed reading techniques, theory and, of course, we will analyze practice - specific techniques on how to learn to read faster
How does the speed reading technique work?
Speed reading helps you to superficially glance at the text, “skim” through it and understand which fragments you should pay closer attention to, and which you can simply sift out. Those who have mastered the speed reading technique, as a rule, do not read all the words in a sentence, but focus on the most significant ones. In this way, a complete and, most importantly, integral picture of the text is compiled. Of course, for reading works of fiction in order to enjoy the author’s style, successful metaphors and interesting comparisons, this method is unlikely to be the most suitable, but if your goal is to obtain information, and even in large quantities, developing speed reading skills will be very useful.
On the Internet you can find various courses on teaching speed reading - there are both classes with teachers and video lessons. However, you can master speed reading methods at home, absolutely free. The main condition is to be diligent enough, exercise regularly and apply the acquired knowledge in practice as often as possible. Be prepared for the fact that training will take more than one day or even a couple of weeks.
How to learn speed reading at home?
Many speed reading courses in their programs are based on the same methods (which is not surprising, because at school or before, we are all taught the same reading method, which slows down the process). Let's give Basic ways to help increase your reading speed without loss of efficiency. Learning speed reading techniques can be divided into two groups: first you need to get rid of what prevents you from reading faster, and then learn to increase speed (this is achieved mainly by practice). Let's look at basic exercises for developing speed reading skills.
We acquire the skills necessary for speed reading and get rid of unnecessary ones
1. One of the main obstacles to reading quickly is subvocalization, i.e. habit of mentally speaking text to yourself. As a result, our brain, in addition to visual information, is also forced to process speech information, 
which significantly reduces the speed of reading the material. Thus, the first step towards mastering speed reading will be to stop subvocalization.
If subvocalization is accompanied by muttering out loud or lip movements ( articulation), you can get rid of it by holding an object between your teeth or gently biting your tongue. If pronunciation occurs at the level of ligaments (but without pronounced pronunciation of sounds) and the brain, the best a way to suppress subvocalization There will be special exercises. While reading, a person is asked to beat out a certain beat with a pencil or finger, pronounce tongue twisters and rhymes to himself, hum, count to 20 - in a word, do something that prevents him from pronouncing the text to himself. Even a metronome (you can buy it or download a metronome program on the Internet) will help you develop speed reading skills and read to the beat of the mechanism, periodically changing the frequency of its rhythm.
2. Another “brake” in mastering the skill of speed reading is the so-called regression — recurrent eye movements and rereading of paragraphs and sentences. It is estimated that due to inattention or the presence of difficult-to-understand passages of text, a person returns to what he read up to 10-11 times! You can solve the problem by using a cardboard bookmark or, for example, a sheet of paper, which must be used to cover the already learned material.
3. Another reason for the low reading speed is poorly developed peripheral vision, which does not allow you to cover large areas of text at a glance. In this case, training is recommended vertical reading, in which, looking at the center of the line, a person will see it entirely and will be able to move to the next line as if along a vertical line.
It is best to train on narrow texts (for example, newspaper columns) or Shulge tables, which are squares of 25 cells. Numbers from 1 to 25 are randomly entered into each cell, and then from a distance of about 30 cm, focusing on the central number, they try to find the rest in order.
In order not to get used to one table, it is worth drawing several or using letters of the alphabet instead of numbers. If a 5x5 table becomes too light for you, you can always increase the number of cells.
Increasing speed
When you successfully get rid of the inhibitions instilled from childhood, you will already read faster than before. However, there are no limits to perfection, and speed reading techniques are no exception. So, to further increase 
number of words read per minute, master the skill superficial reading, aimed at searching for key words in the text, is developed by taking notes or guessing the meaning of a sentence after reading its separate part. An important role in teaching speed reading in general and in this exercise in particular is played by perseverance and continuity of training, which will soon allow you to process large volumes of text without missing important details.
When training, be sure to ensure that you understood the meaning of what they read. If the meaning begins to elude you, slow down a little, because 100 pages conscientiously read but not understood are of little practical use.
