Experience
The Joy of Reading Well
(The Promise and Goal)
It is now possible for almost everybody to quickly start reading with incredible enjoyment and success. Very few people realize that this is possible, and without any cost for new software or hardware. This article will explain how this is possible, and how to go about empowering yourself, or your students, with this new, life-long skill.
Take a few moments here and now to discover what seems too fantastic and too good to be true. Realize that this is actually possible for you to achieve. I can promise you that you will learn a tremendous amount in the next few minutes that can benefit you for many years.
You do not have to buy a new computer. You can use your existing Mac or PC computer, or you can use your new iPad, or iPhone, or iPod Touch. Thus, you do not even have to have a computer or special software. The Mac computers and iOS Devices are already equipped to do this. PC computers are also able to do this. Schools and colleges do not have to buy any new hardware, or provide new building space for hardware.
What is meant by "almost everybody"? Specifically, almost all slow, average and good readers (4-12 grade, college, and adult) can quickly read almost everything on the internet and all textbooks and novels at 350-500 words per minute with excellent comprehension and enjoyment.
Besides slow, average and good readers, who else can benefit from this program? This program provides immediate help for almost all special students including those with learning disabilities, MS, spinal injury, traumatic brain injury, chronic pain, low vision, ESL and ADHD.
What is meant by "read with incredible enjoyment"? All reading anxiety disappears instantly. Words of descriptive text turn into pictures and movies as you read. Reading becomes like going to the movies, but more fun because you are participating with your own imagination. Students want to (and choose to) read assigned reading, and they choose to talk about what they have read with others. Students quickly realize that reading and learning through reading is now more fun and more beneficial than watching television or playing games. They choose to become life-long learners because of the higher joy, thrill and empowerment as compared to alternative uses of their time.
What is meant by reading with "success"? Students are immediately able to focus and concentrate on what they are reading; they are able to think about what they read; they are able to understand and remember what they read; and they are able to discuss what they have learned with others, and on tests. Comprehension goes up. Grade scores go up, and long term memory improves. These skills are transferrable skills that can be applied to any reading. Furthermore, students learn new vocabulary and how to pronounce and use these new words. They also learn how to start thinking in larger thought intervals and groupings of concepts, and how to speak clearly to others in larger thought groupings. As students practice with daily news articles or magazine articles on the internet (or with their assigned reading), they develop and improve their transferrable skills, in addition to getting their work done.
What is required of you? You must be willing to put a few minutes each day for two weeks into personal growth in your reading skills. You must be willing to learn new ways to use equipment you already own or have access to. You also must be willing to learn some new concepts and experience how these new concepts provide immediate benefits for you. Most people need about two hours of formal instruction, followed by practice of new techniques on our free web site and on their own equipment, practicing on their own time.
What is this learning process like? It is like learning to drive. Almost all people learning to drive use their parents' cars or a car that they personally own or have access to. What they learn is how to use what they already possess or have access to.This is what you will do with our reading instruction. After a short period of instruction you will leave with a new life-long reading skill, like the ability to drive.
In the case of this reading improvement we have worked out the concepts and procedures over many years and used them with with many thousands of students and adults. The approach is called Proportional Reading. Our main web site is www.helpmyreading.com.
What is your next step? You go to our website. This is where you go to take our free reading course and sign up for one-on-one help as needed. We work simultaneously over the phone (or Skype) and over the internet, with individuals or whole classes, anywhere in the world. On-site presentations can also be arranged.
If you would like to learn more about the fifteen underlying concepts that work together to make this approach work, please click on this Free Article:
To learn more about the PR approach click on the following articles:
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The Nine Major Benefits of Using Proportional Reading
Seven Misconceptions about Reading Improvement
Ten Perspectives on Proportional Reading, with Grant Application
How to Read Textbooks and Novels
Variable-Speed Computer-Voice and Text Reading
Short Overview of Our Two Hour, 1-on-1 Course
Detailed Description of Our Two Hour, 1-on-1 Course
Proportional Reading
50 Broadway, #31
Beverly, MA 01915
U.S.A.
Contact Person: John F. Adams
Phone: 978-927-9234
E-mail proread@tiac.net
Internet: www.helpmyreading.com