Five Moronic Things Teachers Do to Mess-Up Your Kid’s Reading Skills

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The Publishing Industry reports the average college graduate read just one book in all of 2005. He/She did not do better in 2004, and will only finish one book in 2007. Garbage in – garbage out.

Another thing – research indicates adults speak up to 5,100 words daily, and 78% of them are from Stream-of-Consciousness, also known as – Self-Talk. If you can harness some of these words to program your mind for financial-and-career success, happiness, and stress-busting – you can add up to 38% to your daily productivity.

Reading Haters Do Not Win Promotions

Do you have about fifteen minutes daily to teach your child (and yourself) the practical secrets of Speed Reading - in order to become leaders in our Information Economy?

These are the same skills we teach to executives in the Fortune 500 companies to add up to 38% to their daily personal productivity.

Secrets of Speed Readers

· Always use a pen, computer cursor or laser RasterMaster to track words

as you read reports, memos, and articles. It’s a must-do for all Email and

books.

· While reading, ask yourself questions about the text – Who? What? When? Where? Why? How? This will transfer new information into your long-term memory.

· Practice Silent Reading instead of Subvocalization (hearing all the words aloud in your mind), by gently humming while you read for the next 8 days. Sure it’s annoying, but it will enable you to triple your present reading speed.

· Utilize your inborn peripheral vision to read groups of words at a time (chunking), instead of just one-word-at-a-time as you learned in 3rd grade - and have been reinforcing daily ever since.

· Always reduce what you read to about five key points when you finish. Now whisper them so you can hear your own voice repeating the gist of the text. This final review helps double your long-term memory.

Still More

1. Teachers in 3rd grade, where we are taught to read fluently, instruct the kids to always lay the book they are reading – flat on their desk. Not! It hurts your Retina, Macula and Fovea Centralis because the angle is hard on your fourteen eye muscles. It causes you a reading deficit up to 87% in speed. Bad.

Always keep the text you’re reading at a 45-degree angle. Hold it up or use a book behind it to raise the page from the table. Best of all – read the pages fixed on your book holder at a 45-degree angle. Adding 87% to your reading speed aint hay.

2. To avoid computer associated Dry-Eye, the Carpal Wrist Syndrome of our eyes, click the Edit button at the top of the page, and then click – Select-All. When you read for over an hour on-line, it is better-and-easier on your eyes to have a darker background with white-letters. It helps improve your comprehension up to 39%.

3. Now find your cursor – you must simultaneously use your cursor (the tiny arrow produced by the mouse), to underline all the words of the sentences on the page. Why? is unimportant for now – it helps you read three-words at a time instead of just one.

Would you have an important competitive-edge for your career (or school) to read three books, articles and reports – while your peers can hardly complete – one?

4. Focus you eyes on the upper-half of the words. Most of us read randomly, and let your eyes fall where they may – the bottom half or on the whole-word mostly. If you intentionally read the upper-half of the words of your sentences – you improve your Peripheral Vision (side, outside-the-center), and improve your reading speed - a lot. For those who like specifics – research reports a permanent improvement of about 52%.

Is that All There Is?

It is a great beginning. We can give you all the tools and strategies to permanently 3x your reading speed and 2x your memory. It is guaranteed for l-i-f-e. You must be ready to commit fifteen minutes daily for 21 days. It works for kids and adults, (if you practice your skills), and moves you into the Fast-Lane for promotions, and acing your grades and exams.

Some folks think Speed Reading gives you an absolutely unfair advantage. They are correct.

We are attracted to people who choose success in all aspects of their lives. Abe Lincoln said two things that come to mind:

First, People will be as happy as they make up their mind to be. And second, We are all as lazy as we dare to be.

Do you see a contradiction in these ideas? Let them roll around your mind a bit.

So that’s it for now. We wish you good health and success on your journey to live and enjoy your life. We suggest you choose pleasure, reward and motivation, instead of pain, anxiety and stress. One of your life requirements is to have the skills to succeed in our Information Economy. Digging ditches and pumping gas is no longer an option – you reside in the middle of our Knowledge Society.

Shouldn’t you and your kids come to life properly equipped to succeed?

Endwords

Some folks live by Gertrude Stein’s words –

There aint no answer, there aint going to be any answer, There never has been an answer, and that’s the answer.

Others value the Butterfly Effect by Edward Lorenz of MIT.

Small changes lead to Massive Reactions. Does the flap of a butterfly’s wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas?

Personally, I am attracted to the words of Epicurus (341-270 C.B.E.)

Death is nothing to us – since when we are - Death has not come, and when Death has come – we are not.

We suggest you choose how to live your life beautifully.

See ya,

H. Bernard Wechsler
www.speedlearning.org