| Every speed reader knows that skill is an important | | | | conducive environment, and the best position to |
| asset in speed reading. He employs different | | | | achieve the maximum effect of reading fast. He also |
| strategies to accomplish his aim of reading. As he | | | | considers his state of mind before reading and the |
| reads, he develops questions in his mind that will aid | | | | topic, usually they pick topics of interest to make |
| him in comprehension. In his mind, he foresee and | | | | their reading task easier. |
| narrate what he is about to learn. Before reading, a | | | | Once reading is commenced, after the above factors |
| speed reader makes proper analysis of the material | | | | has been settled, the speed reader bears at the |
| on hand in the form of cause and effect when they | | | | back of his mind the thesis of the material and |
| stumble on words, statements or figures of speech. | | | | progresses. Along the line, if he confronts any |
| All these and many other activities the speed reader | | | | unfamiliar terms, he goes back and tries to read it |
| does to comprehend his material within a limited time. | | | | again, using contextual meaning, if it does not work, |
| The skills most speed reader use in reaching speed in | | | | he ignores this part and continues reading and once |
| their reading includes but not limited to observation, | | | | concluded, he comes back and consults a dictionary |
| practice, brainstorming, eye movement, and so on to | | | | to get a clear meaning for a difficult term. |
| find new ways to increase their reading speed. Using | | | | Below is an example of what a speed reader does |
| this process, it has been discovered that some | | | | when he is reading any material of interest. |
| observers tend to comprehend more than those | | | | Aim I need to know about revision |
| who read the actual material. Therefore, it is in the | | | | Statement: The Revision Process In revising, you |
| nature of speed readers to observe clearly to help | | | | have to follow some given steps which is going over |
| them in defining their topic before speed reading. | | | | the information you have written once more. You |
| Observation is synonymous to investigation and | | | | reread all the details seeking errors, grammar, |
| speed readers also do this before they read. They | | | | punctuation and correcting them accordingly. The |
| investigate what they are about reading to see if | | | | best way to clearly do the revision process is by |
| they are familiar with the topic. In order words speed | | | | trying to go over the material as a reader and not as |
| readers define the 'rules' that help them to achieve | | | | a writer, that way your eyes will be opened to all the |
| success in speed reading. Other areas that the speed | | | | flaws of the material. |
| reader investigates is the writers approach. He | | | | From the above statement, a speed reader is able to |
| considers thesis while reading. Thesis describes the | | | | first understand what he is about reading before the |
| topic in brevity. It is like a headline so to speak, it | | | | real reading. The thesis here is "The Revision |
| presents the main ideas of a material and gives the | | | | Process" Thus he is able to fully grasp the implication |
| reader an advantage ahead of the reading material. | | | | of the whole statement even before he initiates and |
| This increases speed in reading. | | | | concludes his reading. That is the essence of speed |
| In reading, speed readers considers comfort in terms | | | | reading. |
| of location, effect of noise, time of the day, | | | | |