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Dear Friend: Thank you for purchasing Mega Speed Reading. Within hours you will learn how to read faster than you ever believed possible. As you learn to read faster, this program also will train you to comprenhend, , and recall textual information. Whether reading for pleasure, school or business, you will learn to use the perfect reading technique for your purpose. My reading secrects enaqbled me to obtain the worlds's speed rading record. I know my secrects will help you reach your record reading speed. Your friend, Howard Stephen Berg The World's Fastes Reader
page 6 Getting Started How to Use the Mega Speed Reading Program Program To get he optimum benefits of The Mega Speed Reading Program, carefully follow the instructions in the section. Begin by determining you initial reading rate following the workbook's instructions. Next, read the workbook section describing how to use hand motions, view the accompanying video. This video contains both a demonstration of how I read at high speed, and a demonstration of how to use the hand motions. After viewing the video, begin listening to the first audio. Continue listening to each audio in sequence. While listening to my audio , you can view in your manuel the visual overheads mentioned. Continue following the instructions given on the tapes to obtain the best results.
page 6 Selecting the Ideal Book Selecting an appropriate book will help you easily mater this program's techniques. The book you chooose should be a non-fiction book, gree of unfamiliar words or concepts. If you can not understand this book while reading slowly, it is an inappropriate book for you to use. Here are several book types that you should consider using:
* A book on a highly familiar subject. For example, an artist can use an art book, or an ant an ing book. * A book on a subject that you studied years ago and understood. For example a high school history text will contain no unfamiliar in formation or . * a book that you read in the past and found easy to understand.
page 7 Scheduling Your Studies Superior results will be experiences by completing this program in a single day or evening, rather than listening to a portion of each audio over a period of several days. Most people complete the program between 6.00 and 10.00 p.m., or on a weekend between 10:00 a.m and 2:00 p.m. The program should be taken while seatend at a table with a book and notepad. Since this is not a motivational program, under no condition shoul you attempt to learn the technique while driving in your car. Most people take a short break after completing the 16 minute hand motion drill. Another break can be taken before starting the section on how to read for comprehension. Once yo complete the program, it is permissible to review the methods while performing some other activity or while driving
page 8 Steps for Finding YOur Intitial Reading Speed NOTE: if your book contains columns, consider each column as an entire page when using the following instructions. 1. Time yourself and read at your normal reading speed for one minite. 2. Count the number of words on five typical lines. Be careful to count lines and not sentences. Round off your word total to the nearest number divisible by five. 3. Divide your word total by 5, write down your answer. this calculation wil give you the average number of words per line. 4.Count the number of lines on a typical page, and write this number down. Do not use the first page in a chapter! This page usually contains extra white space to separate the heading from teh main body of teh text. 5. Multply the number of words on an average line calculated in step3 by the average number of lines per page calculated i step 4. This will give you teh average number of words per page.
6. Measure how much text you read to the neares quarter page, and multiply by the number of words per page. This will yield your intial reading rate. Backward Reading page 10 Tips for Backward Reading page 11 Backward Reading Exercise page 12 Overheads Discussed on the Tapes page 14 #1 Visualization Schematic Exercises page 14 Schematic Exercise A page 14 Schematic Exercise B page 14 #2 Speed Increasing Techniques page 15 #3 Comprehension Tips page 16 #4 How to Use a book's Format to Increase Comprehension #5 Reading for comprehension page 18 #6 How to Master Different types of Reading page 19