How many F's?
Mrs. Harrison, my 3rd grade teacher taught us how to read, said:
Class, the slower you read, the better your comprehension.
At age 8 you do not interrogate the teacher and say, Where is your evidence
for saying slowness produces great comprehension?
If another adult asked Mrs. Harrison where she got the link (connection) between better comprehension and slow reading, her answer would be she learned it in
Teachers College from her instructor.
Neuroscience research for the past half-century proves beyond a doubt the
principle, the faster you read, the better your contextual understanding of the material. Better context produces up to 50% improved comprehension.
Wrong
She was wrong decades ago, yet today teachers still instruct students learning
to read, to slow down to a crawl to improved comprehension and recall.
Snailers, those who read one multisyllable word at a time (each eye fixation pause),
cannot read beyond a couple of hundred words per minute with about 70% comprehension.
Speedlearners can widen their usable field of vision through their peripheral vision
and read up to six words simultaneously with each eye fixation. They can triple their reading speed and improve their testing comprehension to about 85%.
Translate this to mean speedlearners can read and remember three books, articles and reports in the time their peers can hardly finish one. You agree this new skill
offers a unique competitive advantage in school and career, don't you?
Fs?
Find the total number of Fs in the sentence below. It is simple, right?
Films are flicks that are produced
after years of personal effort, and
of unique knowledge frankly, out
of hard work.
What is your answer?
We tested 1,000 students and executives and the average answer was
six Fs. There are actually 9 words with Fs within them.
Cause
Normal readers, the average college graduate, those we disparage with the
name Snailers, subvocalize 100% of the time when they read.
They hear all the words their eyes see, in their mind, as if a sports caster was
doing a play-by-play of the text. Subvocalization slows you down to a snail,
reduces your comprehension because you lose the context of the material,
and produces regressions.
The average college graduates regresses (stops to go back) about ten times
per page because they lost their train of thought on the page they are reading.
This slows them down at lot, doesn't it?
Reading by Hearing
We are experienced with a standard F sound. It is the one you find in Frankly,
Far, Flame and the Fickle Finger of Fate, right? The F sound in the word,
OF, thoroughly disrupts the phonetic system in our mind.
Say the Of-word aloud, and then repeat the phrase, the Fickle Finger of Fate. You get the difference, don't you?
We have 24 letters in the English alphabet, which convert to 44 specific English
word sounds. Once we have learned the alphabet and the sounds of English in the
first few elementary grades, we will never revisit this knowledge again during our
lives.
In fact we will reinforce this core language know-how on a daily basis by reading; we continuously program our neural networks with repetition until they go on auto pilot. It becomes a right hemispheric habit of phonetic (whole word) reading. The result is the sound of the Of-word is lost, by combining itself with word preceding it.
This accounts for answering six Fs in the test sentence, and not the correct nine
Fs. The reason is subvocalization, hearing each word you read and hearing the
Of-word, wrong.
Speedlearners
Speedlearners reduce subvocalization by about 66% by hearing only every other
word they read, and with practice, hear only one in each three printed words.
Does this make sub vox (subvocalization), your undervoice, the enemy?
In order to consciously think, we ask questions of our mind and seek answers
either through our left brain logic, reason and experience or our right brain and
its intuition. Thinking is holding a conversation with our stream-of-consciousness,
our inner self, holding an interior monolog.
Could it be, mental conversation (thinking, stream of consciousness) between our left and right brains (hemispheres), physically occurs using our brain and its corpus callosum?
Hardwiring
Read this paragraph quickly without stopping to correct the spelling typos.
Your brain uses a mental program called chiasma (decussation) meaning crossing,
to fill in the blanks and create meaning and comprehension of misspelled words.
Trhre anit no asewnr, trhre anit gniog to be any asewnr. Tehre never has bren an
asewnr, and toshe are the asewnrs. Grertude Seitn, wiretr.
Salml canhges laed to msasvie raetcions is nmaed the Btutrefly Ecefft.
If you let your brain do its job without your interference it will read these three
sentences as: There aint no answer, there aint going to be any answer. There never
has been an answer, and those are the answers. Gertrude Stein, writer.
Small changes lead to massive reactions is named the Butterfly Effect.
Your brain is hardwired for language including spelling, grammar and syntax (order). If your eyes transmit through your Optic Nerve to your brain (no hearing),
regardless of visual typos; your Wernicke and Brocca areas will correct the errors
and you will comprehend the ideas behind the words of the sentences.
The secret is the first and last letters must be in their correct order.
Endwords
The purpose of reading misspelled words and finding F-words in a sentence
is to enhance your self confidence and belief in the worthiness of your brain.
What you believe and expect creates your mood and feelings through mental
movies running in your mind.
The greater your confidence in your personal gifts and talents, the more you trust
them to present you with the correct answers. Folks will speed read only as fast as
they believe they can. They will inhibit their skills by the power of belief.
It was Henry Ford who said, Whether you think you can or you think you cannot,
you are right. Your test scores on important exams can increase up to 30% based
on your self-esteem and belief in your testing skills.
See ya,
copyright 2007 H. Bernard Wechsler,
http://www.speedlearning.org hbw@speedlearning.org
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