1. Improving Reading Speed
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2. OUTLINE What is an adequate speed? How fast do you read?
What affect reading speed?
How to improve reading speed?
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3. 1. What is an adequate speed?
Scanning
For specific info.
600 wpm
Skimming
For the gist
450 wpm
Rauding
Representative
300 wpm
Learning
For knowledge
200 wpm
Memorizing
For facts / data
130 wpm
(Carver, 1990)
Syllabus

4. 1. What is an adequate speed?
Level 2 4 6 8
Speed NA NA
1000/5
1300/5
1600/5
All require 70-75% comprehension.
Learning 60
70-120 NA

5. Sailing Round the World
2. How fast do you read?
TEST
Sailing Round the World
Before he sailed round the world single-handed, Francis Chichester had already surprised his friends several times. He had tried to fly round the world but failed. That was in 1931.
The years passed. He gave up flying and began sailing. He enjoyed it greatly. Chichester was already 58 years old when he won the first solo transatlantic sailing race. His old dream of going round the world came back, but this time he would sail. His friends and doctors did not think he could do it, as he had lung cancer. But Chichester was determined to carry out his plan. In August, 1963, at the age of nearly sixty-five, an age when many men retire, he began the greatest voyage of his life. Soon, he was away in this new 16-metre boat, Gipsy Moth.
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6. 3. What affect reading speed?
Reading Purposes
Reading Habits
Reading Abilities
Reading Skills
Reading Materials
Reading Teaching

7. 4. How to improve reading speed?
Reading Purposes
Be Purposeful, Flexible
Reading Habits
Improve Habits
Reading Abilities
Strengthen Abilities
Reading Skills
Develop Skills
Reading Materials
Select Materials
Reading Teaching
Reform Teaching

8. 4. How to improve reading speed?
Suggested Activities
Rate buildup reading
Repeated reading
Class-paced reading
Self-paced reading
Reading Software
The increase of reading speed demands a conscious speed training (with a regular record).