5 Speed Reading Tips For Homeschoolers

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Speed reading is a skill and it is important to develop study habits. This skill helps students during exam days. Students can read all concepts and perhaps understand it easily through fast reading. But a slow reader will find difficulties to read the entire syllabus in short duration.
Why speed reading is necessary for homeschoolers?
You might have seen many teachers or parents insisting homeschoolers to practice speed reading since it is necessary for them to grasp things quickly. Homeschoolers can have enormous fun and enjoy speed reading. Sarah (my friend) and I are private tutors in tutorz.com and she used to follow several techniques to teach speed reading for homeschoolers. She will pick students in random order and make them read a paragraph from any magazine. And she will note down the time taken by each student to read a particular paragraph. Sarah gives regular practice for speed reading and track the progress of each homeschoolers.
By seeing these strategies I also started to follow the same in my teaching. Here are few techniques for homeschoolers to achieve speed reading tactics:
• Read ...
... in chunks:
Usually students read word by word to understand the text given. Instead of that, practice reading as chunks. Reading two or three words together might save your time. You have to notice two things in this, initially when you read word after word your eyes will move slowly across each word. But when you read three words together your eyes will move across all the three words simultaneously.
Secondly you must be conscious that you understand the complete meaning of text though you read as chunks. It is most important because speed reading would be meaningful only if you could understand the text you read.

• Practice daily:
Homeschoolers can practice speed reading regularly since you have plenty of time to focus on it. Include speed reading skill along with your syllabus and practice it daily which will help you to gain confidence. Initially while practicing to read in chunks, you have great confusions and feel like you don’t understand things. But I would guarantee that by practice you can obtain the goal easily.

• Utilize online software:
You can utilize online software available to enhance this skill. You need to follow the instructions carefully before handling the tool. Thus it will be easy for you to understand the vocabularies and read quickly. However the online tools would be costly and little high to afford it.

• Ask for help:
If you need help in fast reading just hire private tutors and read in front of them and make them pinpoint your mistakes while reading. The advantages in this technique are, you can get help from private tutors whenever you require. Moreover you will be treated with individual care to learn quickly in homeschooling classes.

Tips for Private tutors
• Give Speed reading exercises:
Take a magazine or any study material as per your wish. Make homeschoolers to read the first paragraph and note time taken to read it. The next day read the same paragraph in chunks; calculate the time taken to complete it. It should be reduced for couple of minutes. Make students to practice this exercise regularly which will improve the quick reading tactics.

I like to give plenty of similar exercises for homeschoolers to practice the habit of fast reading. Thus private tutors reading this article can use these kinds of techniques to help students.

After reading these techniques you might have got some ideas on speed reading. Have you decided to include speed reading as your skill? Then follow the above tips to master the speed reading strategy. Have a visit to tutorz.com to get assistance from private tutors in academic studies.