Speed Reading - The First Steps (fun)

October 3rd, 2009 admin Posted in education |

By Owen Jones

No one actually knows when speed reading was first used, but it may well have been a long time ago. For hundreds of years, reading was the privilege of a minority of the most well-educated individuals in the world, the overwhelming preponderance of whom were monks and priests. This small, select group of men protected their privilege and were loathe to train the general populace to read. Furthermore, during those hundreds of years there were relatively few books to read compared with today. Books were also very expensive as they all had to be written out by hand. Possibly the only fact that has not changed is that the Bible was the most common book in existence and even now the Bible is the most popular book.

The world is quickly becoming a place where people are slowly but surely turning their backs on books and becoming fixed in front of monitors or television screens. In such a world, parents should not fail to notice the importance of developing a zeal for reading in themselves and their children. Reading is a habit that should be established when the child is relatively young, so what can you do to promote this habit?

Well, there are several strategies you can employ, although one of the best to lead by example. Read with your child every day, even if its only for 10-15 minutes. Allow your child to see you reading. By this I mean, don’t only read in bed before you go to sleep, but instead of watching television sometimes and read your children a bed-time story. Encourage them to read too. You could also:

Enroll your child for reading lessons, if you honestly don’t have any time or your child is a bit slow at reading. There are many well-structured after school reading classes that aspire to make books more appealing to children. They help children with pronunciation, idioms and phrases. These lessons can be fun with animated characters and pictures, especially for young children,. They frequently make use of picture books, nursery rhymes, silly songs and short stories to spark the imagination of younger children.

You will have to find out how to kindle your child’s interest. If your child has a favorite character, pick a series of books that feature this character. Try to encourage your children to read real books not comics. The style in comics usually leaves a great deal to be desired with its sloppy English and street slang. As an alternative, go for series of books like Harry Potter or Tarzan.

You should build yourself a library of your own books. This may sound a little grand, but after all, a library is only a collection of books. Start with a good-looking bookshelf that you can easily add to. A talent like reading cannot be learned in only one place, so you cannot afford to leave all the hard work to the day-school or even the after school programs. You have to collect books that you think your child will like too. Make use of the Internet as a source for learning about the modern reading games that will attract young children to the fine and ancient art of reading,

Once you child is engrossed in reading for its own sake, you might read up on speed reading. Speed reading is best suited for educational revision and background reading. It’s extremely suited to cramming or studying for examinations. It is perfect for school and university. However, the first job, before you can think about speed reading, is to get your child reading in the first place.

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