http://www.smartspeedreading.com These slides are from the Iris Speed Reading Classes & Memory Improvement Courses. Iris is the largest and leading provider of Speed Reading & Memory Improvement Courses in the United States. This is a speed reading refresher course for speed readers.

1. Speed Reading
Refresher Course
Welcome!
Pesenters:
Paul Nowak, Founder & Program Director
Katya Seberson, Director of Research

2. How Fast Do You Read?
A book a Day?
or
A book a Year?

3. WPM
Words
Per
Minute

4. www.readfa.st
Go to www.readfa.st
Sign Up with your email
Connect with Facebook

5. www.readfa.st
Go to www.readfa.st
Sign Up with your email
Connect with Facebook
Sign In and
Click on
Find Your Reading Speed

6. www.readfa.st
Press the button Below When
it's Too Fast
Take a Comprehension Test

7. Ready Steady Go!
try it out Now!

8. How Fast Were You?
At what point did you press stop?

9. Reading Speed as a Range
Material
Purpose
Time of the Day
Physical Conditions
Language of the Source

10. Average Reading Speed For America
What are your thoughts?

11. Average Reading Speed For America
150-250 Words per Minute

12. Average Reading Speed For America
150-250 Words per Minute
100 Years ago 250-350

13. What is Slowing us Down?
3 Bad Reading Habits

14. What is Slowing us Down?
3 Bad Reading Habits
1.Regression
2.
3.

15. What is Slowing us Down?
3 Bad Reading Habits
1.Regression
2. Fixation
3.

16. What is Slowing us Down?
3 Bad Reading Habits
1.Regression
2. Fixation
3. Auditory Reassurance
or Subvocalization

17. Lack of Vocabulary
Choppy way of Reading

18. Components of Reading
1. Speed
2. Comprehension
3. Retention

19. Multiple Reading Process
1. Preview
2. Overview
3. Read

20. Reading on the Computer Screen
AccelaReader.com