Composition & Speed Reading

Vasugi Balaji

Research Analyst, The Mother’s Service Society

Composition

• Capacity to assemble words in to sentences

• 10 to 12 commonly used sentence structures in English

Sentence Structures

• The girls are reading.• The girls are reading and the boys

are playing.• The girls are reading while the boys

are playing.

• Glenn Doman Method – enables to teach sentence structures much early from KG Level

• Learn not just to read but construct and vary sentences

• Sentence construction can be taught by play way methods

Methodology

Jack eats.

Jack eats carrots.

Jack eats fresh carrots.

Methodology

Jack eats fresh carrots at home.

Jack eats fresh carrots at home daily.

• Glenn Doman - learn words, its meaning, spelling & pronunciation

• SpellBee – teaches Etymology which enriches the vocabulary

• Teaching sentence structures and how to vary the structures helps to compose sentences

Speed reading

• A science developed in the west used by professionals

• Constant practice makes double, triple or up to ten times faster reader

• Adult reading – habit ingrained and needs deconditioning & retraining

• Young learners – becomes natural just like first language

• Teach to view a wider peripheral area

• Teach to visualize the whole page

• Daily practice of 15 minutes• Average reader – 200 words/min.• 200 page book have 50,000 words

approx. take 4.17 hours to read• Speed reader – 500 wpm takes 1.67

hrs & 800 wpm takes 1hour

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