Improve Your Reading Speed And Comprehension

Make both pleasure reading and academic reading more effective by improving your reading speed and comprehension

What you'll learn
Increase reading speed
Improve reading comprehension
Remember information for longer periods of time
Have a deeper, more complex understanding of reading material
Learn a specific reading method
Requirements
Must be willing to try basic techniques and be patient
The techniques will only work if used and practised.
Description
The Improve Your Reading Speed and Comprehension course will help you become a better reader. When reading for pleasure, you will remember more of the material and engage with it in a deeper way. When reading for academic purposes, you will retain more information for quizzes, tests, and exams.  Also, you will have better access to the material for essay writing, book reports, speeches, and so on. Being able to read is one thing - being able to read well and comprehend what your read is another! Also, increasing your reading speed without losing the essential reading comprehension piece will bring you many rewards no matter what kind of reading you are doing. Please, come and be willing to engage yourself, and you will reap the benefits of improved reading!

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction to speed reading and comprehension

Section 2: Starting Points

Lecture 2 Read for Pleasure

Lecture 3 Know Your Purpose

Section 3: Technique

Lecture 4 Preview Material

Lecture 5 Ask Questions

Lecture 6 Begin Reading!

Lecture 7 Take Notes

Lecture 8 Recite

Lecture 9 Review

Lecture 10 SQ3R

Section 4: More Points for Speed

Lecture 11 Believe It or Not!

Lecture 12 The More You Read

Lecture 13 Measure Your Speed Reading

Lecture 14 Pacing

Lecture 15 Avoid Subvocalizing to Increase Your Speed Reading

Lecture 16 Read in Thought Units

Lecture 17 Build Your Vocabulary

Lecture 18 Use Signal Phrases

Lecture 19 Respond to What You Read to Improve Reading Comprehension

Section 5: Final Bits & Pieces

Lecture 20 Keep Learning!

Any person who wishes to increase his or her reading speed while also improving comprehension.,Students who want to increase their enjoyment of reading.,Not for students who simply want to "read fast and get it over with." This is not the course for you.