My views on improving reading speed

In the era of information explosion, everyone is faced with the task of screening information every day. How to obtain information quickly and improve reading speed is an important manifestation of one's ability. Is there any way to improve your reading speed? I have had a lot of experience when I received the elite fast reading training, and I would like to share it with you here!

My views on improving reading speed 1. Take more notes

As the saying goes, "A good memory is better than a bad written one". Taking notes is a scientific reading habit, because in the process of taking notes, we can extract the main points and annotate them. The most important thing is to record the difficulties in time, which is convenient for us to solve the problems in reading in time. Moreover, taking more notes will deepen our understanding of the article, and some good words and sentences will be easier to dig. For example, Master Qian Zhongshu is our role model. Many people marvel at Qian Zhongshu's memory, but he himself says that he is just good at reading and willing to work hard. When reading, Mr. Qian not only reads it once or twice, but also reads it three or four times. Therefore, his notes are often constantly mended, and it usually takes twice as long as reading a book to take notes, and he enjoys it. Qian Lao also said that "you can't read books unless you borrow them". Only borrowed books can be read immediately, and you can take notes after reading them. Therefore, the multinational translation of Mr. Qian Lao's notes, from home to abroad, from the sea to others, is wrinkled and vague, but when it comes to the palm of his hand, he has to be impressed by Qian Lao's note spirit!

2. Overview of article ideas

Fairy tales, stories and some books with relatively simple content logic, people often have few reading difficulties. However, if we still read some theoretical and professional articles word for word, we are asking for trouble, which will seriously affect your reading efficiency. At this time, we should learn to have an overview and overall understanding of the article structure, and you will undoubtedly greatly improve the reading speed.

3. Analyze sentence structure

An article is composed of paragraphs and sentences, so developing the habit of analyzing sentence structure is the basis of improving reading speed. However, one skill in analyzing sentence structure is to find the "trunk". For example, "China" in the sentence "China plans to supply pork from 11 enterprises to Russia" is the subject, which indicates the known information, while "plans to supply pork from 11 enterprises to Russia" is the backbone of this sentence, which conveys new information. Therefore, when reading, we can sweep away other parts and grasp the trunk, and we will certainly improve the reading speed.

4. capture key points

first of all, the key points mentioned in this paper refer to the connection point between logo words and articles. For example, transitional sentences and transitional paragraphs have the same function of inheriting the above and enlightening the following; In summary, these phrases are usually a simple summary of the previous words; Subtitle, the central idea of a paragraph; Some special fonts, such as bullets, italics, boldface and sparse typesetting, often have the author's special intention and should be paid more attention to. Therefore, when we read, as long as we pay attention to some sign words and connection points, we often get twice the result with half the effort.

5. Grasp the core of information

To improve reading speed, you must master several methods, for example, sometimes you have to read ten lines at a glance, but sometimes you have to focus on solving information difficulties; Sometimes we have to read books from beginning to end to establish information links. However, our reading eyes are not linear and uniform, so our reading skills are to quickly grasp the core idea, that is, to quickly understand sentences or paragraphs, which is the key to fast reading and our ultimate goal.

The more we master several fast reading methods, the more we can change the contradiction that most young people want to study and have less time. As long as we have the need to read, practice it, persevere and comprehensively use methods and skills, we can expand our knowledge and improve our reading speed. 2. What methods can improve reading speed

(1) Image reading is a major feature of fast reading. American scholar Harari famously said: "A thousand words are not worth a picture", which shows that image information is more easily accepted by people.

For example, if you look at a paragraph of text and a landscape painting with the same area, you can see the landscape painting clearly with one or two eyes, but it takes time to understand the content of a paragraph of text. Relevant experts have further calculated that people "remember the ratio of language information to image information at 1:1".

As we all know, people's brains are divided into two halves. The left hemisphere is also called abstract brain, and the right hemisphere is called image brain. The left hemisphere is used to read words, while the right hemisphere is used to appreciate natural scenery and paintings. Compared with the two, when reading a book, the information about the end of the left hemisphere is slow and little. If you look at a page of a book, you can write down very little, because people look at it locally and abstractly. While looking at a painting is to use the right hemisphere to get in touch with information quickly. For example, when people look at a landscape painting, they will show more than half of the contents on the screen, because the painting makes people look at it as a whole and vividly.

Of course, reading makes people unconsciously use the overall concept. For example, when people see a box, they will form the impression of a box in their minds, instead of four discrete short lines. When they see the forest, they will write down in their minds that the forest's words are not three Mu Zi, let alone scattered Chinese strokes. Using this feature of vision, a paragraph of text can also be regarded as a whole. On this basis, if people use their relaxed mood to read the text, that is, change the text reading into image reading, then the reading speed and reading quality will have a qualitative leap, which is a theory put forward and confirmed by authoritative sources.

(2) Fast reading will not affect the quality of reading. Some people think that fast reading can only be a cursory glance, and it is not as rewarding as slow reading. Actually, it's not. For example, if you look at a movie separately, you can only leave an incomplete and incoherent impression. If you watch it continuously, you can form a complete impression, and it will be more profound.

The same is true for reading. Reading an article fast continuously is far better than intermittent reading, and reading fast is better than reading slowly in turn. Because slow reading also inputs intermittent slow-paced information to the brain, the brain will distract the rest of the attention; When reading fast, people's attention is highly concentrated, and they can see the internal logical relationship between words from between the lines, which is convenient for forming a complete impression and understanding memory, and just can obtain more, more complete and deeper knowledge and information than slow reading.

(3) The test that silent reading replaces oral reading and finger reading shows that the reading speed by reading aloud is only 5-7 words per minute. In the exam, reading aloud and finger reading will also greatly reduce the reading speed, and silent reading is the one-step reading method.

The silent reading program is much simpler than the vocal reading program. The program of reading aloud is: eye → brain → mouth → ear → brain; Silent reading is: eye → brain.

Therefore, silent reading is to recognize words immediately when you see them. Silent reading does not need to read word for word, but to recognize the whole sentence and line of text symbols as a whole.

When reading silently, the perception of character symbols is a direct reflection of the eyes and brain, which cannot be achieved if the traditional reading method is still adopted. In practice, we can adopt the method of reading in a limited time, so that the eyes can scan the page faster and concentrate on understanding the content of the reading, so that the pronunciation organs can't pronounce it.

Over time, you can also overcome the problems of oral reading and finger reading. (D) Attention should be highly concentrated, and more logical questions should be asked. In the process of reading, all attention should be focused on the understanding and understanding of the content of the material. Only in this way can people's vision and thinking be in a positive and active state, and they will speed up the understanding and understanding of the reading material.

When reading, you should pay attention to: before reading, you should have a clear purpose, that is, before reading, you should understand what problems you want to solve or what kind of knowledge you want to acquire by reading articles. For example, you can read the questions at the back of the material before reading the material.

In speed reading, we should ask more logical questions. The so-called logical questioning is to ask more why when reading.

Tao Xingzhi compared this question to "eight consultants". He said, "I have eight good friends who are willing to show me everything. If you want to ask your real name, you will have different surnames: what, why, who, what, when, where, where, where you came from, and where you went, just like a brother and a brother. "

in the theory of communication, there are also "5W theories", namely "When", "Where", "What", "How" and "Why". These elements are helpful for us to get all kinds of information quickly and understand the meaning of the article, so the focus of reading should be on searching information, which is a prerequisite for fast reading.

(5) Grasping key sentences and main information is the key. When reading, learn to grasp key sentences and main information. The words in the reading material are loaded with certain information, but not every word is loaded with equal information.

A sentence is often composed of many words, some of which are crucial. Without it, the meaning can't be expressed clearly, while others are not. This is usually the case with paragraphs: some words are key, and experienced readers don't exert equal efforts on each pair of words and paragraphs in the reading process, but only grasp the key words and sentences, and pass over other contents at once.

Only in this way can reading be relaxed and reach a certain speed; Otherwise, distributing attention to every word and sentence evenly in the reading process will not only fail to grasp important information, but also cause visual and mental fatigue, thus affecting reading speed. The distribution of important information in the text is generally regular: in narrative and descriptive style, the important information of a single sentence is generally subject, predicate and object; In scientific and technological style and political style, the important information of a single sentence is more likely to be adverbial, attributive and complement; In complex sentences, the important information of most partial complex sentences is the positive sentence, while in conditional complex sentences, the clause expressing the only condition is the important information.

in a paragraph, the central sentence of the paragraph, the topic sentence of the article and the paragraph containing the topic sentence are important information. Knowing the distribution of important information in reading materials can capture effective information in a targeted way and improve reading speed.

(6) Correctly handle trivial contents such as numbers and time in reading materials, especially in reading scientific and technological expositions. 3. How can I improve my reading speed

A: How can I improve my reading speed? One method: 1. Pre-reading-used to deal with long and difficult reading materials.

Pre-reading plays a special role in dealing with long texts, such as lengthy magazines, newspaper articles, business reports and realistic reports. This method can make you get almost half the information in 9/1 less time than the average person.

Method: No matter what the article is, read the first two paragraphs, then the first sentence of each paragraph, and finally the last two paragraphs. Pre-reading obviously can't give you every detail, but it can save you time and prevent you from seeing things you don't want to see-or don't need to see.

Please note that the pre-reading method is for you to deal with those long and unfamiliar materials. For short articles, there are better ways. 2. Skimming-applied to short and simple articles.

skimming is a good way to get a general picture from the entertainment and sports columns of light reading materials such as popular magazines and newspapers. The time spent skimming the entertainment section of a weekly magazine or a daily newspaper can be less than half the time you spend reading them in the usual way.

In addition, skimming is an excellent way to review the materials you have read before. Method: Imagine that your eyes are two magnets, and force them to quickly sweep across each line of words, paying attention to only a few key words in each line.

Everyone chooses different keywords when skimming. When you skim the same article with me, although the keywords are not all the same, the original meaning will be very similar. In order to let you know more about how to skim, I enclose the keywords I chose during skimming. You might as well try it.

however, please note that you should skim this passage within 1 seconds. My brother (Russell) stayed in the closet (at night) and I told him (he was crazy).

"I don't believe you (check it out)." He said.

(I don't want to) go. Russell said I was as timid as a mouse.

("No way." ) I said.

"you are." He said.

(I frighten him) The ghost will come (eat him) at midnight. He burst into tears.

Dad (Dad walks in), (Command) Devils (Get out). Then call us (to go to bed. )

("If I hear a ghost again)," said my brother, "I'll teach you a lesson." We soon (fell asleep).

you may have (guessed) it, right? Those ghosts (never) (never came back). Up to now, you have been able to know the content of the article quickly by pre-reading and skimming.

But since you haven't read all the words, neither of these techniques can guarantee that you will get more than half of the details. Let's look at the third technique.

3. group reading-to satisfy people who want high speed and high efficiency. Most of us read a book word by word, only one word at a time, like this: My-my-brother-brother-… You probably still use this method when reading a book, especially when you come across articles full of difficult words.

This reading method is really a big obstacle to fast reading, which greatly slows down your reading speed. Group reading teaches you how to read a group of words at a time, not one word.

Method: Practice so that your eyes can see 3-4 words at the same time. I'll demonstrate again and read the same article in groups.

words circled together are seen at the same time at a glance. (My brother Russell) (thinks there is a ghost) (stays at night) (in the closet) (I told him) (He is crazy. )

("I don't believe you) (Check it." He said.

I don't want to go. (Russell said) (I'm timid) (like a mouse. )

("I'm not." I said. )

("You are." He said. )

(I scare him) (The ghost will be in the middle of the night) (Come and eat him. He began to cry.

(Dad walks in) (Command the devil) (Everybody get out. Then call us. Go to bed. )

("If I hear it again) (Ghost voice,") (My brother said,) ("I'll teach you a lesson." We soon fell asleep. )

(You may also) (Guess? Those ghosts never came back. It is normal that your eyes will feel unaccustomed when you start group reading.

after some practice, you will be able to use it freely. Ok, let