PAPERBACK BOOK REQUIRED. NO E-READERS OR KINDLES. 

Students will learn how to speed read and improve their reading speed by 20% or more in just one week.  The average young reader is around 150 - 200 wpm/minute.  The goal is to increase by 20%-30% during the week of practice.  After a month of daily practice, students should begin to see their normal reading speed increase to 400-600 wpm, and then with practice over 3-6 months, ideally even up to speeds of 1000 wpm. During this week, students will learn the key skills they need to learn to speed read, as well as ways to understand and remember better what they read.  It's imperative they commit to practice these skills for at least 30 days to really see the full effect. 

Students need to come already very comfortably reading chapter books at or below their reading/grade level - please choose one to use all week. Kindles and Cartoon type books will not work.  Speed reading skills will be explained, demonstrated, and then students given an assessment to apply the skill. They should be ready to post their results on the section page for interaction with me.  They will be timed each day to show student their progress almost immediately! 

Parents, please know that students should be comfortably reading chapter books before taking this course.  


Day 1 
- Find starting base rate. 
- Set up good habits
- Learn some basic neuroscience
- The main key skill to speed reading – smoother eye fixations
- Speed Reading Technique #1
- Calculate new reading base rate

Day 2
- Learn reading warm up skill - the connection between sight and touch
- Learn the 2 main bad reading habits and how to stop them
- Skill:  4, 3, 2, 1, Skill and practice
- Timed a new reading wpm rate

Day 3
- Reading Comprehension Technique #1 - Trained Skimming
- Speed Reading Technique #2 
- Speed Reading test using Technique #2

Day 4 
- Reading Comprehension Technique #2 - RRR - Second R - How to understand and remember what you read
- Smart Reading - Apply speed reading skills to different types of reading
- Warm Up
- Speed Reading Technique #3 - 3-Dot technique for speed reading (Minimal eye fixations)
- Speed reading test using Technique #3

Day 5
- 30-day Homework assignment
- Reading Comprehension Technique #3 
- Warm up
- Find ending base rate 
- Find percent increase from Day 1
- Set your 30-day goal

Homework
Speed Reading is a skill that requires practice.  Students who do best commit to practicing speed reading 10 minutes a day during this course and after this course for the following 30-days initially and ideally 3-6 months to "cement" this skill in their reading habits and increase their speed with the long-term goal of up to 1000 wpm for certain types of reading.

Assessment
They will be assessed by timing their reading of the week, with regular assessments during the week to mark their progress. They will be informally assessed on comprehension. Parents will receive a written report after the student completes all 5 sessions summarizing their progress.

Materials
1. Several different chapter books at or below grade/reading level. A book that lays flat is best, books the student has not read before are ideal
2. A calculator to quickly count the words and speed
3. Pencil or pen 
4. Note book to take a few notes and keep track of their WPM/words per minute through the week.