| There are two elements to speed reading that | | | | Key point: your eyes are playing catch-up with |
| are under your control. | | | | the movements of your Pacer,which always |
| Practice for just 15 minutes daily for 21 days will | | | | moves about double the speed of your snailing. In |
| absolutely double yourspeed and even increase | | | | the first 15minutes of practicing with your Pacer, |
| your comprehension about 5% | | | | you will speed up with good comprehensionto up |
| To triple your reading speed and better - requires | | | | to 75% of your initial snailing-reading-speed. |
| easy additional strategies. | | | | Triple-Chunking |
| Field-of-Vision | | | | Take your pen and draw two-lines down the page |
| Our forward facing field of view is 180 degrees | | | | in dividing the text into three separate chunks. |
| wide. Some animals can use all | | | | Don't analyze it, it is baby-easy and does not |
| 360 degrees of their Field-of-Vision. | | | | require a ruler,approximately chunk the sentences |
| We have all been trained since the 3rd grade - to | | | | on the page into three-groups or sections |
| read using our narrow - hard focus of only 12 | | | | ofwords. |
| degrees wide. This hard -focus is technically called | | | | Now when you practice speed reading, you |
| Foveal-Vision and permits us to see up to | | | | always imagine each sentence as if itwere |
| six-letters or one-word wide. It makes us | | | | grouped into three-phrases. You still focus on the |
| reading-snailers. | | | | upper-halves of the wordsyou are reading, and |
| We come equipped with another kind of sight | | | | ignore looking at the beam or trace-mark of your |
| called peripheral-vision, and it usesa soft-focus, a | | | | Pacer. |
| widening of our vision up to thirty-six letters | | | | The beam or trace-mark is picked up by your |
| (six-words), wide. | | | | peripheral-vision because it is aninstinct of |
| Guess which one produces speed reading? | | | | motion-detection - the way our eyes came |
| Compare our field-of-vision for ordinary reading | | | | hardwired. |
| (snailing), just 12 degrees wide,containing | | | | Practice 15 minutes daily triple-chunking, and after |
| six-letters - to peripheral vision, with its up to 72 | | | | 21 days, you will triple yourreading speed, with an |
| degrees wide. | | | | increase of up to 10% in comprehension and |
| Speed Reading uses both foveal (hard-focus), | | | | long-termmemory. |
| vision and peripheral (soft-focus) vision, to read up | | | | Double Chunking |
| to six-words within our field-of-vision. Makes all the | | | | Take your pen and divide the page into |
| difference. | | | | approximate two-equal sections. |
| Chunking | | | | Come on, it is baby-stuff by now. You are |
| When we group words together, section (unite, | | | | grouping the sentences into two sections,and |
| link), a series of words in a sentence - we are | | | | mentally reading as if each sentence consists of |
| chunking. A synonym is a block, pile or hunk of | | | | two-phrases. |
| information, verses reading one-word-at-a-time, | | | | Snailing is reading one-word at-a-time. Speed |
| which is the way we were all taught. | | | | Reading is chunking words for easeof context, |
| Think of it as combining small units (a single-word), | | | | comprehension and fluency. Double-chunking is an |
| into coordinated units. | | | | improvement onboth Indenting and Triple-Chunking |
| When you chunk - you create more digestible | | | | because you are learning to make |
| sections of words (phrases), forimproved meaning | | | | lesseye-fixation-pauses per sentence, in your |
| (comprehension). You understand the writers | | | | field-of-vision. |
| ideas, and his/herpoint-of-view - instead of merely | | | | Each practice gives you greater mastery over |
| isolated words. | | | | your eye-pattern-movements,and eliminates your |
| You get the context, comprehension, and fluency | | | | 3rd grade training of reading just |
| of a sentence, instead of a broken-up, distorted, | | | | one-word-at-a-time. |
| hard-to-understand version. Here's the kicker - | | | | Single-Chunking |
| chunking (usingyour peripheral-vision), in your | | | | Practice this one and you are a certified |
| field-of-vision, permits you to quickly locate | | | | SuperStar. By the time you reach |
| andeasily scan the page for improved | | | | Single-Chunking you have triple your reading |
| comprehension and memory. You test better. | | | | speed, and doubled your memory. |
| How do we learn to chunk? | | | | Over 90% of graduates stop before |
| First, change your Eye-Pattern-Movements - we | | | | Single-Chunking because they can read and |
| call it Specific-Guidance verses | | | | remember three-books, articles and reports in the |
| Random-Spacing. When you choose to use your | | | | time their peers can hardlyfinish one. We know |
| soft-focus and peripheral-vision,it requires a | | | | you are capable of greater cognitive |
| mental-decision; you break up sentences, | | | | personal-growth. |
| paragraphs and pagesinto chunks of words. | | | | Single-chunking is mentally underlining with your |
| #1, is called Indenting. Draw a line down the left | | | | Pacer beam or trace-mark usingyour soft-focus |
| and right sides of the page you arereading, to | | | | and peripheral-vision - but without dividing the |
| separate the first two-words and the final | | | | sentences. |
| two-words from the rest ofthe sentences. | | | | You are fully capable of moving your |
| You focus on the upper-halves of the chunks of | | | | head-and-eyes gently left-to-right as you scan the |
| words in the middle, and let yourperipheral-vision | | | | sentences, and absorb the gist of the ideas. No |
| pick up the indented words on your lateral-left and | | | | chunking lines are necessary. |
| lateral-right. | | | | Here is the difference - your move across the |
| The result is you are training your eyes to chunk, | | | | sentences left-to-right, but move tothe next |
| use soft-focus and your peripheral-vision. The | | | | sentence right-to-left - Diagonally. You are reading |
| secret is how you chunk in your field-of-vision, | | | | forward of course -as your eyes are creating a |
| using your | | | | simple kind of eye-pattern-movement of chunking |
| Pacer (Rastermaster, Pen or Computer Cursor), | | | | thewords. |
| and the Pattern-Movements of your eyes. | | | | Once more: you reading one-sentence as a single |
| You do not have be a reading specialist to use | | | | group of words (single-chunking),and the |
| indenting, or to switch to soft-focus from your | | | | following-sentence moving right-to-left - with your |
| 3rd grade hard-narrow, foveal-vision. All it takes is | | | | eyes moving to thefront of the second-sentence |
| practice to startreading from the third word in | | | | and scanning. The secret is the slanting, diagonal |
| from the left, instead of the first, and to stop | | | | line. |
| readingtwo-words from the end-of-the-sentence. | | | | Now you are ready to read the third-sentence, |
| Just let the indenting lines guide you and quit | | | | and your eyes single-chunk left-to-right, and then |
| over-thinking the process. | | | | move Diagonally (slanting), - right-to-left. Now do it |
| All you do is use your Pacer to underline the | | | | again - Finnagin - down the page. |
| words-of-the-sentence. It worksbecause our eyes | | | | Practice all of the above, and finally choose the |
| are Motion-Detectors, and must following a | | | | specific chunking style you find thethe most |
| moving-object. | | | | comfortable. |