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Speed Reading PLUS For students For parents For career people A personalized reading coach that DOUBLES YOUR READING SPEED in just 15 lessons Press <RETURN> for Preview This is a Preview of Speed Reading PLUS It will explain how you can double your reading speed in only fifteen lessons PLUS have greater comprehension and enjoyment from everything you read. Reading is a SKILL. No one is born with reading ability. Your eyes must be trained to move across the page correctly and your mind must quickly accept what your eyes have seen. In elementary school@ you learned to sound out each word. Most people keep that habit@ but it causes slow reading and poor comprehension. Speed Reading PLUS breaks that habit and increases reading speed - PLUS comprehension - PLUS enjoyment! Speed Reading PLUS doesn't tell you HOW to read faster. It measures your reading ability and actually coaches you to each new speed. Speed Reading PLUS is personalized. It uses your Entry Level Survey and develops your skills with each lesson. Speed Reading PLUS works privately with you! Each lesson includes VOCABULARY Special words won't slow you down. FLASHWORDS Improves speed of recognizing words. INTERESTING STORIES Topics for personalized interest. COMPREHENSION QUIZ So you understand what you read. Let's look at some samples of lessons. VOCABULARY Each lesson builds your vocabulary. This helps you to understand words without slowing you down and know their meaning within the sentence. Press return to see a typical vocabulary question. Select the best meaning for - 'causeway' 1. several city streets 2. a main direct road 3. an air travel route 4. a river through mountains Select the correct answer That's right! You selected the correct answer so Speed Reading PLUS shows the next question. There are ten new words in each lesson. You selected an incorrect answer. The question would come back on the screen for you to try again. That way@ you will learn the correct meaning of the word before reading the story. SENTENCE COMPLETION More practice with the same ten words. This exercise reinforces the words. The MEANING of the word must register quickly when you see it in a story. Select the best word for the sentence. They used the main .... for their drive to their new home. 1. astronaut 2. airline 3. causeway 4. telephone Good! When you see this word in the story@ you won't slow down at all. Sentence completion reinforces your knowledge of the word. With each lesson@ you practice ten more words. Wrong! You must be testing the machine. But you wouldn't do that if you were doing the actual lesson. Incorrect answers bring back the same question so you WILL learn each word. By the way@ Speed Reading PLUS records all of your answers so it can develop your abilities on an individual basis. Now that you know the MEANING of the word@ Speed Reading PLUS helps you to SEE words more quickly. This is done with FLASHWORDS. Words flash on the screen for a fraction of a second. You may start with one@ then progress to as many as five words. Flash speed will gradually increase as long as you succeed. Try some! Watch here for flashword Press return to see flashword causeway Select the correct answer 1. astronaut 2. causeway 3. cabinet 4. pledge Good. You saw that word accurately. As you succeed@ flashwords get faster. Then@ more words are added. Gradually@ you improve in the span of words you see as well as in the speed of seeing the words. Try another one at a faster speed. Sorry. That's not right. In the actual program@ you would get another chance at the word. Gradually@ you improve in the span of words you see as well as in the speed of seeing the words. Try another one at a faster speed. Watch here for flashword talent Select the correct word 1. salient 2. balance 3. patient 4. talent Great! For you@ Speed Reading PLUS would increase to two words in the next flashword lesson. Eventually@ as your personal ability increases@ you will probably be able to see five words in a flash. Try the next one to see the effect of a five word flash. You missed that one. Speed Reading PLUS would show it to you again until you were able to succeed with it. Remember@ it is individualized to your own ability. It works with YOU. Eventually@ as your personal ability increases@ you will probably be able to see five words in a flash. Try the next one to see the effect of a five word flash. Watch here for flashword. Press return to see flashword the legend of talented speakers Did you see all five words? If you were able to see that flash@ your reading speed will probably increase by three or four times. THE STORY Stories are available on many different topics to match your own interest. As you improve@ you will read the stories in four different ways. Speed Reading PLUS will control the movement of your eyes and gradually increases your reading speed. After each successful lesson@ your speed increases by about seven percent. First is the 'moving window'. Its length and speed increases as your ability increases so you never feel frustrated. It forces your eyes to move in a smooth left to right manner. After several successful lessons with the moving window@ you will automatically advance to the next step in the speed xxxxx reading process. This flashword style xxxxx increases in speed and in number of xxxxx words. As you see more words in each xxxxx flash@ the meaning of the words comes xxxxx in thoughts rather than words and your xxxxx comprehension improves. Reading becomes xxxxx easier and more enjoyable. xxxxx Finally@ you read the story like this. xxxxx The speed will be slightly faster than xxxxx your last speed. You will be amazed at xxxxx how fast you really can read compared xxxxx to your present speed. Comprehension xxxxx increases@ and so does enjoyment@ due xxxxx to smooth@ well trained new skills. xxxxx THE COMPREHENSION TEST Ten questions about the story will tell whether you really understood what all those words were saying. If you score 70% or better@ you will progress to a faster speed. if not@ you will maintain your speed until you get some more practice. Speed Reading PLUS constantly measures your progress and guides you through each level of success at your own speed. If you are a student@ a parent or a career person@ Speed Reading PLUS stays with you at YOUR level of progress. RECORD KEEPING Speed Reading PLUS keeps records of each lesson. When you start a lesson it will automatically look at your progress and present the lesson at the proper speed. Optionally@ it will display your progress chart. If you have a printer@ it will make a printout for you. Knowing your own progress is important. Let's look at a sample Progress Chart. PROGRESS CHART Date Lesson # Rdg Spd Flash Spd 3/15 1 190 1 3/18 2 203 1 3/24 3 217 1 3/28 4 232 1 4/2 5 248 2 4/4 6 266 2 4/8 7 285 2 4/12 8 304 3 For good readers@ too! Even if you are a good reader now@ you can double your speed in just fifteen lessons and maintain it with an occasional brush-up lesson. Think of how much more you can read and what you can do with the extra time. Speed Reading PLUS begins with an Entry Level Survey to measure your present visual and reading speeds. If you want to try the Survey@ press <*> now. It will take about ten minutes and will give you a printed report to take with you. Press return to start Preview again Computers have become a part of our everyday lives. We have them at home and at work and we use them to make our lives easier and more productive. Here is another dimension to your computer. Use it to improve your reading skills. Most of us read at about 200-250 words per minute. But research shows that we are capable of reading much faster. We just need to learn the correct skills. And if you use Speed Reading Plus@ you will also increase comprehension and vocabulary. Think of what you can do with your extra time if your reading speed is doubled or tripled! In grade school@ you learned to sound out words. That's probably what you are doing right now. It's great in grade school but as an adult@ it slows you down. Speed Reading Plus changes that! You learn to read groups of words@ as thoughts@ and your reading speed and comprehension increases dramatically. You can do it! No matter how well you read now@ Speed Reading Plus will guide you@ privately and personally@ toward better reading. Try the demo now.