But it didn't take me long to discover that children catch on to speed reading much easier and better than anybody ever expected. By September, , a local school teacher invited me to teach speed reading to the kids [all aged ] in one of his classes to see how well they would do. On the second day of a 4-week experiment, one 9-year old girl could read 41 pages of a book that I had brought in 30 seconds, and she could tell me all about what had happened in the book.
At first I thought I was in the presence of one of the world's few super-geniuses. But, the next day, when 5 more kids could do just as well, I realized that I had stumbled onto a normal, and natural phenomenon: Children can be natural, gifted speed readers, if they are just shown how, and if they are allowed to use the skill on a regular basis until it becomes second nature.
By the end of 4 weeks, the only kid in the class [of 18 children] who couldn't read at least 1, words per minute was the rowdy one who wouldn't cooperate anyway. I realized even then, that if I wanted speed reading to become a universal skill, then I couldn't always be the guru to teach every class out there. The secret that I was looking for was to create a simple method.
One that was so simple, that it would allow any parent, any teacher, any grandma or even any "dummy" to teach children to speed read. In answer to all these needs, I finally came up with the Speed Reading 4 Kids manual, now in its 4th Edition.
I also had to re-educate people a little bit. For example, most people think that speed readers only know how to speed read As if they would forget how to read slowly whenever they want to. I still read slowly sometimes. Like when I read the scriptures, letters from Mom, or poetry. I can't imagine reading any Dr. Seuss book fast.
Ninety percent of the fun of his books is in hearing the rhymes. On the other hand, I can't imagine reading Sports Illustrated slowly. Or the newspaper. I don't have time to read the paper slowly. I also have a list of great books I would like to read and understand before I die. And the list keeps getting bigger and bigger. The more I learn, the more I want to learn. As the saying goes, "The hurrieder I go, the behinder I get.
Since I started this project, one of the greatest surprises that I've had, was the fact that some "Learning Disabled" children teens and adults, too have a superior natural talent towards speed reading, even while these same students still have difficulty reading slowly. Like Mark, a 17 year old student whom I taught at the local skills center. Mark is diagnosed with ADHD. Within 2 hours, he was reading with complete understanding at 14, words per minute that's equivalent to a Hardy Boys book in 2.
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