Course Overview
Duration: 1-Day, 09.30 – 16.30
Welcome and introduction to the day and course objectives
Analysis of personal reading habits and an assessment of how long you spend reading in a day, week, month
Benchmarking: Self assessing your current reading speed
Setting a personal improvement target
Effective Rapid Reading: Understanding good reading techniques
Eradicating poor reading habits
Analysing reading material and choosing the appropriate
reading strategy
Rapid Reading tips and hints
Load Rapid Reading practice software on your laptop
Familiarisation with the Rapid Reading practice software
First practice session: Exercising your eye muscles
Reducing ‘regression’ or skip-back
Reducing the time to read word groups
Increasing size of word groups
Second practice session: Rapid Reading on screen
Rapid Reading the written word
Self assessment of reading speed and comprehension. Compare with your benchmark test from the morning
Set personal improvement targets and practice schedule for the next 3 months
Review of the day and key learning points