6/26/2023 0 Comments Howard berg reading barnes n noble![]() First you get an overview, then a preview, THEN you read it, then you do a post-view, and finally you do a review. ![]() It also tries to teach you to read vertically instead of linearly, and to read in layers. The motions guide your eyes and help you resist regressing over material you’ve already read (and actually understood just fine the first time). The Evelyn Wood approach also involves hand motions on the page while you read. “Accept visual, as opposed to auditory, reassurance as you read.” (p69) The Evelyn Wood technique is to stop reading phonetically. You are translating text into imaginary sounds, then translating the sounds into meaning, then assembling those meanings into bigger ideas. It is limited by the speed of your mental voice, and it activates parts of your brain that should be unnecessary for reading. Linear subvocal reading is obviously inefficient. We are told to “sound the words out” from the very start of our careers as readers, and we never stop. ![]() Why do we read this way? The book doesn’t speculate, but I would venture a guess: It is an artifact of being taught to read phonetically. It’s a book on speed reading.Īccording to the book, the way most of us read is called “linear subvocal reading.” We scan a line of text from left to right and sound out the words in our heads. Frank called Remember Everything You Read.
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