Elementary and secondary school teachers have long discovered a relationship between reading speed and student achievement. The faster a student perceives the flow of information, the better he learns. For this reason, parents strive to teach their child speed reading before starting school or college. primary school. What speed reading exercises there are for children, how to do them and where to start, we will discuss in our article.

What's happened

Speed ​​reading is a person’s ability to perceive text at high speed. It is to perceive, and not just mechanically read. If you teach a child to swallow words at a phenomenal speed, without understanding what he has read, then speed reading will not help you with your studies, but rather the opposite.

Under speed reading in in the right sense It is generally accepted to understand the developed skill of processing educational text. These are paragraphs from textbooks, articles on scientific topics. The reading speed should be at least 120-150 words per minute. At an older age it reaches up to 200 lexical units.

Any child can learn to speed read. But, according to psychologists and educators, optimal age is the period from 10 to 12 years. Although children 7 years old and even 6 years old have positive experience in using the technique.

Problems

Training speed reading involves some difficulties. Unprepared children have poorly developed peripheral vision and articulation, and have defects in mental skills (attention, memory).

1. Narrow field of view. To master technology quick reading You need to have a wide range of vision. The eyes should not focus on one word. The task of a speed reading teacher is to teach the student to perceive the text as a whole, that is, the gaze should stop not on individual words, but on the spaces between them, immediately capturing a phrase or sentence.
2. Eye regression. This is the main enemy of speed reading. The student returns to the text he has already read, wasting time. Eye regression occurs automatically. The process can be controlled using training exercises.
3. Suppression of articulation. When reading at a normal pace, children try to pronounce words clearly and loudly. It helps to absorb fiction. For example, it is impossible to perceive poetry accurately and feel the author’s mood without pauses or logical stresses. But for dynamic reading, diction is not needed. Pronunciation reduces the speed of text comprehension.
4. Undeveloped attention. High reading pace requires increased attention. This is necessary for instantly highlighting the main and secondary, deep understanding of new information.

To eliminate defects and develop fast reading skills, you need not only to constantly train, but also to adjust the width of your field of vision, give up internal pronunciation of words, control regression, and develop attention and memory. The following exercises will help with this, which are included in the training system, devoting a few minutes to them in each lesson.

Exercises

The most effective exercises are those that eliminate the cause of low reading speed and train the speed of visual perception of information. Let's look at some of them.

To expand the field of view

Exercises for the development of the visual field occupy the main place in the system of lessons on dynamic reading. Children aged 7 and 8 years or in small words. The wide angle and field of view allow you to capture phrases, sentences, even small paragraphs with your gaze. In other words, the child reads and immediately sees further text, perceiving it subconsciously. Not all adults can boast of such a skill, but children, after 1-2 months of training, do it easily. Use following methods work.

Schulte tables

These are number squares. Each cell contains a number. For students primary classes The range from 1 to 20 is used. The task of the exercise is to find all the numbers in order with your eyes. At first it takes a long time, then 10-20 seconds. You need to track the speed of completing a task at each lesson, noting progress.

Red-black Gorbov-Schulte table

Word pyramids

Analogue wedge tables. Words are located at different distances from each other. You need to start reading with top level, gradually going down, keeping both sides of the pyramid in focus. This task is quite difficult. The training must be carried out individually; each student should have a card with a table on their desk so that there is no distraction.

As an option, tables are offered with whole words on the sides of the pyramid or syllables, connecting which, the child receives a semantic lexeme.

To combat eye regression

It is impossible to prevent your eyes from returning to an already read text by force of will. This skill requires practice.

• Cut off half a line

You need to proceed as follows:

• The child reads sentences, for example, the first line of a paragraph.
• Places a sheet of paper and a wide bookmark on the fragment read.
• Continues reading, moving the bookmark across the page.
• Returning your eyes to the top text is impossible - it is hidden. The pattern of moving only forward is developed automatically.

• Pointer

You can use a pen or finger. The teacher or the student himself indicates the reading movement. The eyes follow the pen automatically, but at first the student will have to force himself not to look back.

To suppress articulation

Pronouncing words, even with your lips, silently interferes with increasing your reading speed. Articulation will have to be suppressed. Only your eyes should glide over the text. The following exercises are suitable for practicing this skill.

• Reading to music

Play music without words, then accompanied by a song. Noise interferes with speaking. It is important to check your reading comprehension regularly. Ask questions about the text, ask to retell paragraphs, a paragraph from the textbook.

• Mumbler

Or a bumblebee. Students should hum or hum or sing a tune while reading. This exercise is quite difficult. But it develops both hemispheres of the brain, since the child performs several actions at the same time.

• Pencil

If your lips pronounce the words of the text you read silently, automatically, then you need to fix them in one position and prohibit them from moving. The child holds the pencil in his mouth or covers his lips with his palm.

• Drum roll

The teacher or the student himself can tap the rhythm. Drum without rhythm or at a certain tempo, playing a familiar melody.

Important! This training block is difficult for elementary school students to complete. Exercises interfere with the perception of information, so you need to regularly monitor the semantic perception of what you read.

Attention exercises

Adjusting the level of attention is necessary to improve the ability to quickly perceive text, see familiar words, glancing over them. Conduct next complex exercises:

• Making up words

Write long word on a piece of paper. For example, entrepreneurship. It is used to make lexemes of one or two syllables: world, forest, table and others.

• Find the differences

Write down pairs of words: par-bar, vol-kol, trail-dill. The child explains how they are similar and how they are different.

• Riddles

Trick questions train attention. For example, how many apples will grow on a birch tree if there are 8 of them in the garden, and each of them grew 10 fruits in the last period?

You can come up with clever riddles yourself, together with your child.

• Work of both hemispheres

• Confusion

Learn some poems with your child. Type the memorized lines on your PC, but swap the words, and print them out. The student’s task is to arrange them correctly.

• Let's celebrate the main thing

Read a short test. Mark with a pencil the main thoughts and main points.

• Name the colors

An exciting task. Use a field like this:

You need to name not the words, but the color and shade with which they are printed.

Memory exercises

The following tasks are suitable for memory training:

• Visual dictation

Take a short text of 5-8 sentences. A schoolboy is reading. Then close all sentences except the first one. Let the child remember it. Give this 10 seconds. Remove text. The student must write down the sentence from memory. Rework the entire text this way.

• Word Repair

Elementary recovery of gaps in words. First, one letter will be missing in some words, then you can give text with a lack of syllables, even words.

• Chain recovery

Teacher, parent read a group of words. They can be related to each other semantically or lexically. For example, bus-driver-garage-gasoline-repair-mechanic-driving school. The number of words depends on the abilities of the young student and his age.

The child repeats the words after listening. It is important to maintain the order of the chain. Increase the number of words gradually, bring the complexity to 20 units, preferably unrelated in meaning.

• Developing a speed reading strategy

There are several options. Choose any one that is suitable and understandable to you, the child. Methods can be used isolated and comprehensively, alternating exercises in one lesson or through a lesson:

• Forced acceleration method

You need to work in pairs. More successful students can help struggling students. The lead reader quickly pronounces the text and moves his finger or pointer along the page. The observer watches and adjusts to the pace. In the next lesson, reading takes place in silent mode. You just need to follow the movements of your pointer or finger. At the same time, the speed should be at a good level.

• Fixation method

The child reads the text in parts with a metronome. You need to circle the beginning, middle and end of the line with an oval. Thus, several sentences are divided into three equal parts. With each beat of the metronome, the student grasps separate part You can't read with your eyes or out loud. Carry out this method every day for 3-4 weeks.

• Slip method

The method is similar to diagonal reading. Use a pencil to circle the first few words of each sentence and turn on the metronome. On the first beats the student reads the circled words, on the second – the rest. The sliding speed gradually increases.

Important! At first, you cannot demand understanding. It is important to practice the skill of perceiving text in fragments. Reading comprehension will come later.

Methodology vocational training children's speed reading, as well as complete system learning at home is presented in books. Take note of a few of the benefits listed below:

1. G. Abdulova. “Speed ​​reading for children. How to read faster, remember and understand more.”
2. Sh. Akhmadullin “Speed ​​reading for children.”
3. Sh. Akhmadullin. “Teaching Children Speed ​​Reading.”

Author's materials are suitable for organizing individual lessons with parents and in groups. The developers of the methods claim that the result will appear quickly: from 10 days to a month, if you devote 1 hour a day to training. Books on speed reading for children can be downloaded for free on the Internet or ordered in paper version.

• Don't waste time reading large texts; it's better to process a couple of small passages at a good pace.
• Take breaks between classes if they are short. For example, for first-graders, choose the following scheme: read 3 times a day for 7-10 minutes, every 2-3 hours.
• Start with simple tests.
• Before you start learning speed reading, automate the sounds and perception of syllables. You can use the syllable table. It can be read vertically, horizontally, diagonally. Download the option you like on the Internet or use this one.
• Use it as a warm-up in every lesson.
• For first-graders or preschoolers, use bright literature, with pictures, colorful illustrations to develop interest in the lessons.
• Automate the reading of frequency words. Doman-Manichenko cards are suitable for this. They can be used with infancy. The method is based on photo memory.
• Instead of strict work systems, use choral reading, text processing in pairs.
• Monitor your reading technique regularly and write it down in your diary.
• Keep a success notebook. Praise your child for the slightest success so as not to discourage him from studying.
• Read together and set a positive example.
• Give your child time to read independently, without your supervision. This will increase responsibility and self-esteem.

Speed ​​reading can be a lifeline for children. With the help of exercises to develop memory, attention, field of vision, the child improves weight mental properties. And this helps to master school curriculum, to be successful and respected among classmates and teachers.

There is a technique of Professor I.P. Fedorenko, who says that when working on a book, it is not the duration, but the frequency of training exercises that is important.

Human memory is structured in such a way that what is remembered is not what is constantly before the eyes, but what flashes: that is, that is not. This is what creates irritation and is remembered. Therefore, if we want to master some skills, bring them to automatism, to the level of skill, then we should not carry out long exercises, long in time. We should carry out exercises in short portions, but with greater frequency.

What is often observed in many families? Dad or mom sits their child down and says the following: “Read this fairy tale. Don’t leave the table until you read it.” With the low reading technique that a first-grader has, he needs an hour to an hour and a half to read this short fairy tale. This is an hour and a half of very difficult work. Dad and mom are making a very serious pedagogical mistake here, suppressing the child’s desire to read. It would be much better if home training was carried out in three portions of 5 minutes each. The child reads a short paragraph and retells its contents. After an hour or two, another portion. One more serving before bed.

The gentle reading mode is a mode when the child reads one or two lines and after that gets a short rest.

This mode is automatically obtained if the child views filmstrips and slides: read 2 lines under the frame, looked at the picture - rested. The next frame - I read two lines again, looked at the picture again.

Pedagogical collection of techniques for achieving effectiveness in teaching reading (Appendix 1).

How to help your child achieve speed reading?

One of the most difficult tasks in the method of teaching dynamic reading is overcoming the habit of conscious or subconscious articulation, the desire to sound out the text being read.

Research shows that to understand the meaning when reading and memorizing information, it is enough to just see the word and transfer it to a visual image, to the brain analyzer for information processing.

At low reading speed, all words are spoken mentally. The higher the reading speed, the fewer words are spoken, the more words are perceived only by the eyes.

In order to clearly differentiate between children reading silently and aloud, as well as to prevent active external pronunciation when reading, Grekova T.A. advises using the exercise

"Lips"

When given the command “Lips,” the child places the finger of his left hand on his tightly compressed lips, which reinforces the psychological attitude toward silent reading. When given the command “Aloud,” he removes his finger and reads the text aloud.

As the student gets used to reading without external signs pronunciation, the command “Lips” is given less and less often and, finally, is canceled completely.

Thus, the less pronunciation, the higher the speed!

For advanced elementary readers

Effective reserves for learning to read can be found in the following exercises:

Reading upside down text:

A page of normal text is turned upside down, i.e. 180 degrees. The child’s task is to read the text by moving his eyes from right to left. It is said that a child is making a journey through an upside-down world and it is urgent for him to quickly learn to read in it.

This exercise helps:

Formation of complete letter standards in the child’s memory.

Development of the ability to combine letter-by-letter analysis with semantic prediction of word endings.

If this exercise is modified in such a way that the text is rotated 90 or 270 degrees, then this exercise will be useful for improving the coordination of eye movements and the accuracy of processing perceived information in the occipital cortex.

Correcting deformed sentences (Appendix 2).

The child is very fond of mysterious writings and enchanted sentences. Let him master the secrets of magic and remove the spell.

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Appendix 2

Set of deformed sentences.

1. walk carefully past a standing car

2. gave Masha porridge with our semolina

3. one color in summer and one color in winter

4. fishermen catch fish while fishing

5. my friends came to me for a holiday

6. with grandfather, Frost beautiful lungs there were sleighs

7. my favorite tree is white birch

8. strawberries bloomed in our garden

9. We took the train to the station

10. the slide was icy, steep and long

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Appendix 1

A pedagogical collection of techniques for achieving effectiveness in teaching reading.

Articulation gymnastics.

a) warm-up

inhale through the nose, exhale through the mouth;

inhale, hold your breath, exhale;

inhale, exhale in portions.

b) exercises to develop clarity of pronunciation:

Planes take off: ooh-ooh.

The cars are moving: w-w-w.

The horses galloped: clop-clop-clop.

A snake crawls nearby: shhhh.

A fly hits the glass: s-z-z-z.

c) reading pure phrases in a whisper and slowly:

ra-ra-ra - the game begins,

ry-ry-ry - we have balls in our hands,

ru-ru-ru - I hit the ball with my hand.

d) reading quietly and moderately:

Arch of Arts

arta arda

arla archa

Arsa Arja

e) reading loudly and quickly:

burn - steam - fry

door - beast - worm

e) reading tongue twisters, proverbs, sayings

g) reading consonants

The student takes a deep breath and as he exhales reads 15 consonants of the same row:

BTMPVCHFKNSHLZZTSS

KVMSPLBSHGRDBLST

PRLGNTVSCHTSFBHNM

VMRGKTBDZSHCHZBCHVN

FSHMZHDShHChMKPBRVS

PTKZRMVDGBFKZRCH

Reading a consonant with a vowel using the same table.

For example: 1st row reads with the vowel [a], 2nd row - with the vowel [o], 3rd row - with the vowel [u].

After this exercise, students practice reading a series of vowels with an emphasis on one of them: a o u y and e.

Forming words from halves.

From 3 to 10 words are taken, each of them is written on two small cards. The child is asked to quickly put the cards together to form meaningful words. A more complex version offers words that are similar in spelling.

This exercise develops the ability to make a guess about the entire word from a separate fragment and immediately confirm it with the missing fragment. In addition, an attitude towards letter-by-letter analysis of the word is formed..

To develop speed and flexibility (the ability to change reading speed depending on the content), an exercise is used

"Tow"

The essence of the “Tug” exercise is reading in pairs. The adult reads “to himself” and follows the book with his finger. And the child reads aloud, but from the finger of an adult. Thus, he must keep up with his reading.

The second version of the “Tug” exercise involves reading aloud to an adult and a child at the same time. An adult reads within the speed of a child, who must adjust to his pace. Then the adult becomes silent and continues to read “to himself,” and the child follows his example. Then read aloud again. And if the child correctly “caught” the pace of reading, then he will “meet” him on one word.

Multiple reading

The student is asked to start reading and continue for one minute. After this, the student notes to what point he has read. Then follows a re-reading of the same passage of text. After this, the student again notices which word he has read and compares with the results of the first reading. Naturally, the second time he read a few words more (some by 2 words, some by 5, and some by 15). Increasing the pace of reading causes positive emotions in a child, he wants to read again. However, you should not do this more than three times! Avoid fatigue. Strengthen the situation of success. Praise your child.

Reading at the pace of a tongue twister

Children practice reading text clearly and correctly, and most importantly, quickly. The endings of words should not be “swallowed” by the child, but should be clearly pronounced. The exercise lasts no more than 30 seconds.

Expressive reading with transition to an unfamiliar part of the text

The student reads a passage of text, then we explain to the child this way: “Now, read the text again, but a little slower, but beautifully, expressively.” Your student reads the passage to the end, but the adult does not stop him. The child moves on to an unfamiliar part of the text.And here a small miracle happens. It consists in the fact that a child who has read the same passage of text several times and has already developed an increased reading pace, when moving to an unfamiliar part of the text, continues to read it at the same increased pace.. Its capabilities are not enough for a long time, but if you carry out such exercises daily, the duration of reading at an increased pace will increase. After two to three weeks, your child's reading will improve noticeably.

“Throw - notch”

Its goal is to develop the visual ability to navigate the text. It consists of the following:

The child places his hands on his knees and begins to read the text aloud at the command “Throw”. When the “Notch” command is heard, the reader lifts his head from the book, closes his eyes and rests for a few seconds, while his hands remain on his knees. On the command “Throw”, the child must find with his eyes the place in the book where he stopped and continue reading aloud. This exercise can last about 5 minutes.

To increase the upper limit of the individual reading speed range, an exercise is used

"Lightning"

Its meaning is to alternate reading in a comfortable mode with reading at maximum accessible to the child speed of reading silently with reading aloud. The transition to reading in the most accelerated mode is carried out at the command of the teacher “Lightning!” and lasts from 20 seconds /at the beginning/ to 2 minutes /after mastering the exercise/. Training can be carried out several times during each reading lesson, and a metronome can be used as an additional stimulant.

Children always want to compete to see who can read faster. In this case, the exercise is useful

"Sprint"

If your child’s classmates come to see you, invite them to find the same passage in the book and, on command, begin to read out loud at the same time, whoever is faster, correctly pronouncing the endings of the words. At the signal - “Stop”, the children show with their fingers who has stopped where.

With this exercise, little readers also learn attention and concentration. After all, there are other children nearby reading aloud and making it difficult to concentrate. The child needs to be attentive and not be distracted by extraneous noise. And this skill needs to be developed.

Students’ favorite type of reading is role-playing reading, which evokes a lot of feelings and emotions. Offer it when your child has classmates. Organize a “Radio Play”.

In modern pedagogy, a set of exercises has been developed to develop the skill of reading and understanding texts. The authors of these developments were a group of teachers and psychologists: Zaika E.V., Nechaeva N.V., Kudina G.N., Novlyanskaya Z.N., Ladyzhenskaya T.A., Simanovsky A.E.

Here are some of them:

Reading a text with a cover top part lines:

There is a secret in this exercise - an exercise with a trick. The fact is that any intelligent child will notice that when the top line is read in half letters, at this time the bottom line is completely open, and will realize that it is much more profitable to have time to quickly read it while it is open, so that later, when it is closed quickly issue finished result. Many children quickly adopt this strategy, and this is exactly what is needed to increase their reading speed!

This exercise is formed by several significant educational qualities:

Reading silently (because it needs to be hidden);

Verbal-logical memory (since it is necessary to retain several words in memory at once and retain them for several seconds).

Distribution of attention and the ability to perform at least 2 tasks simultaneously (reading a given line out loud and reading the underlying line silently).

Most of the time, the student should read “to himself,” silently. This is understandable. It is difficult to read aloud, fatigue comes earlier.

All children read slowly. Reading speed depends on vocabulary child and how much time he devotes to learning. If your child reads too slowly, gets low grades in reading, and teachers ask you to tutor your child, then it’s time to learn speed reading at home. Of course, you can use the services of private teachers who will take care of your child for a “very modest amount”, but is it worth paying if you have the opportunity to study on your own? There is another advantage to this: you will be able to spend more time with your son or daughter.

What is speed reading?

If a child begins to fall behind in school in many subjects and he does not have enough time allotted in class to familiarize himself with the information provided in the textbook, it will be simply excellent to teach him speed reading. Of course, he will not become a genius who can completely read all the sheets in the time when his classmates read only the first page. Speed ​​reading involves highlighting only the main thing and completely discarding unnecessary information, that is, that verbal garbage that does not affect the essence of what is being presented.

At what age can a child be taught speed reading?

There is no specific threshold here. The opinions of experts are divided, and some believe that it is necessary to teach speed reading to a child before the age of ten, while others argue with this opinion, arguing that it is impossible to learn such a technique before the age of fourteen.

Speed ​​reading at home for children should begin at the age when the child can correctly comprehend the text, that is, not only can read, but also understands the essence. This age is different for everyone and largely depends on the teachers in kindergarten, primary school teachers and parents. So, to understand that your baby is ready to learn speed reading, you should focus on four basics:

1. The ability not only to distinguish letters, but also to construct syllables and words from them.
2. Correct reading comprehension. That is, if a child read about a turtle, but says about a horse, then he is not ready, because he does not understand the meaning.
3. The ability to select only the most important things from the entire text.
4. Can retell reading material.

And in order for speed reading at home (we will describe exercises for mastering this skill) to bring greater effect, it is worth starting from the child’s activity. If he is not diligent, then you should wait a little until the hyperactivity passes.

Mistakes made during training

How to learn speed reading at home without desire? There is only one answer, it’s completely impossible, so before starting the course, you should start from the child’s wishes. If he doesn’t want to read at all (applies to preschool age), then you shouldn’t force him, as the desire to learn will completely disappear. So, if the child is determined to learn, then you can start.

The first thing every parent should remember is that you should not spend a lot of time on initial skills, and initial exercises should not last more than fifteen minutes. After this, you should let the child rest for about an hour and continue further. Why? It’s just that a small amount of material is absorbed quickly, but a child may remember absolutely nothing from a large volume.

Teach your child not letters, but sounds, that is, say not “EM”, but “M”. Otherwise, the child will read “emaema” instead of “mother.”

Learn to read right away in syllables, not letters, so the process will go faster. Stop all attempts by your baby to move his lips when reading to himself. Teachers assure that with such movement the child will take too long to comprehend the same word.

Speed ​​reading at home for children: exercises for the brain

Of course, you can choose a technique yourself, but you can also use a proven method used by specialists. The main thing is to choose one training method, and not change it daily. So, let's start learning speed reading at home, effective course Let's start with brain training.

Find a pair

To develop your thinking speed, you can start this exercise from the very beginning. early age, the main thing is that the baby already knows the letters and knows how to work with syllables. You can buy, or you can draw cards yourself, on which the syllables will be written. Place them randomly on the table and encourage your child to make up words that he can find. For example: “vo-da”, “pa-pa”, “ba-ba”. With each exercise, complicate the task by adding one syllable to the words.

The cards should contain syllables of words that the child has already seen; the main thing here is attention and memory.

Read in a minute

Take a book that you haven't read yet and invite your child to read a few lines. Record the time yourself and mark with a pencil the place where it stopped after a minute. Then ask to read the same passage again, and the number of words this time will be higher. Repeat the exercise every day.

Anagrams

Speed ​​reading at home will become much more productive if you intensively train your visual memory. Write the incorrect sentence on a piece of paper and its corrected version on another. For example: “A frog was sitting in a green meadow” and “A frog was sitting in a green meadow.” Ask your child to quickly read the first version, and then just as quickly - the second. You will be surprised, but the baby will read the second version just as correctly as the first. This is visual memory.

You can do the same thing not with sentences, but with words, removing all vowels or several letters from the second option.

If you don’t succeed the first time, ask to find the mistakes made in a sentence or word, and continue training every day.

Visual perception

Do dictations with your child, just not the ones we are used to writing at school, but visual ones. Take a book with large letters and a blank sheet of paper. Close all sentences except the first one from your child and give him a minute to study it. Then cover the entire text and let him write what he read on a piece of paper. Do the same with subsequent sentences.

Not with a stick, but with a carrot

If your child is unable to master speed reading at home, or the exercises are not being done as they should be, then do not scold him under any circumstances. Try again and again, and be sure to praise for each success. The learner should only have good mood, positive attitude and positive emotions. If you scold him, he will be pinched internally, and, most likely, you will not have to wait for success, and the result will get worse.

Why does a child need speed reading?

Speed ​​reading helps to quickly assimilate the material covered and eliminate all errors in reading. For example, if a child often “stammers,” confuses letters and syllables, or “swallows endings,” then this technique will help get rid of these issues.

By increasing the reading speed, the child will do better in school and will learn to separate the important from the unnecessary in the material covered.

Speed ​​reading is great for developing memory. This is very important when learning, because every day children are given a huge amount of information, and developed memory will help you better absorb information, which means your grades will improve!

In addition to reading and the exercises provided above, the child should also practice speed speech. Prepare tongue twisters, proverbs and sayings for him. Speed ​​reading at home will be more productive if the baby can speak quickly.

When reading, place the book on your lap, and while reading, move your finger along the line, the child should sit next to you and try to keep up with your movement. Slide your finger a little faster each time.

Speed ​​reading for children at home: reviews

Many parents who taught their child independently noticed that after completing the course, his progress in school was greater. Also, the children who completed this course became much more attentive.

There are those who write that the teacher was unable to teach speed reading because the child was uncomfortable in class. Children feel more relaxed with their parents.

There are parents who claim that they did not have the patience to teach their child on their own, and they decided that they did not really need it.

Before doing speed reading, the child is taught to read. Obvious, but true. As a rule, parents do this with preschoolers. And quite often they make a number of pedagogical mistakes. Here are the main mistakes parents make and solutions.

1. Name the correct names of the letters of the alphabet: “em”, “er”, “el”, “te”. A child does not know the difference between a letter and a sound; it will be difficult for him to connect letters into words. Instead of letters you need to name sounds, not letters: [m], [p], [l], [t] and so on.
2. Use the alphabet with pictures. Helps to master letters, but interferes with reading (for example, it is difficult to understand why adding “car” and “stork” produces the syllable “MA”). Exit: use different methodological material – cubes, magnets, soft letters, pictures.
3. It is forbidden to move your finger along the lines, suggesting returning to a new line with one glance. The child gets tired quickly. The correct thing to do would be allow you to drag across lines with your finger or bookmark.
4. They learn to read letters by adding “m” + “a” = “ma”. The child gets tired, making “extra” intellectual efforts. It is necessary to teach reading syllables, even preferably from books where words are divided into syllables.
5. They use one. This sets up certain patterns that may interfere with future reading. Costs try combining techniques, after consulting with a psychologist or teacher you trust.

If you are worried that your child is “stuck” on syllabic reading, he can’t read whole words, watch this webinar (from 2.30 minutes), where teacher Olga Lysenko shares effective methods for teaching children 6-10 years old to read more fluently.

When to start learning speed reading?

The positions of teachers are similar in one thing: you should not teach fluent reading to a child who can still read syllables. You can start classes when he can already effortlessly read whole words and understand entire phrases.. Otherwise, reading comprehension will suffer. In addition, not every child can handle the length of the lessons. The standard suggested practice is 60 minutes a day, in several approaches if necessary.

If you study for 60 minutes a day, after 10 days your reading speed, taking into account your understanding of the text, should increase by 2-5 times.

So, too early learning, rather harmful. Experts agree on this. But regarding the timely start, their positions differ. Some believe that you need to start in junior school, because in middle and high school you will have to “break” habitual but incorrect reading skills. It takes energy and demotivates.

Search free lessons speed reading? Give me a little time - details at the end of the article and you will solve the main problems of new speed readers, who are often confused by the fact that they cannot pronounce while reading or, having a fairly wide angle of view, cannot proceed to zigzag reading.

With the help of speed reading lessons you can develop memory, attention, intelligence and other valuable skills. Speed ​​reading lessons will be useful for those who have to process a lot of information due to their occupation, for those who want to do as much as possible in this life. But these exercises will only be beneficial if you do them not occasionally, but regularly for a long time.

There are many courses and special programs for speed reading. The methods may differ, but the essence of most of them is the same. Firstly, when speed reading, you should read not words, but paragraphs, and entire pages of text. This is possible if you learn to read not line by line, but vertically, along the text. Secondly, you must stop reciting what you read. In methods that do not interfere with internal pronunciation, additional time is spent on assimilation and memorization of the material. And the most important thing is the quality of the material read. That is, you will learn to better understand the text you read with significant time savings.

Selective reading technique

Follow the selective reading technique - within a maximum of twenty seconds, you should read only a couple of lines on the page. From the words you read, formulate phrases that reveal the entire essence of the text on the page. This will significantly save reading time;

Do not fixate your gaze on figures of speech that do not convey any useful information. For example, “thus”, “as a result of this”, “as a conclusion...”. They are needed to connect key ideas in the text, but when speed reading you should not pay attention to them;

Don't go back to text you've already read. This can be confusing. Try to remember as much as possible from a page, devoting equal amounts of time to each.

If you do not have the opportunity or special desire to master this technique on your own, you can enroll in special courses. Working with a professional will help you avoid the mistakes you might make when learning on your own.

Computer training on expanding (measuring) the angle of view

Reading good books- This
conversation with the most bright people
past, and very unusual,
because they only talk about the best
your thoughts.
(Descartes)

• Exercise to expand the angle of vision - rotating numbers

Computer exercises on text perception

• Training to master the skill of Speed ​​Reading - Find the word in the text

Fast reading and rhythm

Other computer trainings for mastering speed reading skills:

• Reading backwards to front (vice versa)