http://www.smartspeedreading.com These slides are from the Iris Speed Reading Classes & Memory Improvement Courses. Iris is the largest and leading provider of Speed Reading & Memory Improvement Courses in the United States. This course covers speed reading and how to make difficult reading easy for speed readers.

1. How To Make Difficult
Reading Easy
Welcome!

2. Gaining Background Knowledge
Before Reading
The more familiar you are with a subject,
the easier it will be to read.

3. Multiple Reading Process
1. Preview
2. Overview
3. Read
4. Final Review
5. Recite

4. Consider Doing MRP on Sections
Preview
Overview
Read
Then move on to the next section in the chapter.

5. Read & Recall
Read a paragraph, immediately write what it
was about (a keyword or 2-3 words max)

6. Dealing with Diagrams, Charts,
Formulas, etc.
How To Get Maximum Comprehension When You
Must Analyze a Diagram, Chart or Forumula

7. How Taking Notes Creatively Makes
Reading Easier
Taking Notes Strengthens Retention
Mind Mapping Helps You Remember Visually

8. Pushing Through the Material
How To Avoid Re-Reading
When you should re-read

9. Pushing Through the Material
Making marks to signify difficult areas

10. Mental Checkpoints
To make sure you are focused check to see if
you are still paying attention after each section.

11. Using Questions To Read Critically
What?
Why?
How?

12. Reading Philosophy
Try to find the question the author
is trying to answer

13. 3 Other Ways to Improve Quality of
Comprehension
1. Reading a wide variety of material
2. Discussion
3. Testing (Actual Tests or Self-recitation)

14. When To Look Up Unfamiliar Terms
After you finish a paragraph

15. Don't Read to Remember, Read to
Understand
Reading for Understanding is that Goal
After you've understood the material, you can
then focus on trying to remember it.