Fast reading and understanding texts
About the Lecture
The lecture Fast reading and understanding texts by Zach Davis is from the course PoweReading©: Speed Reading Techniques (EN). It contains the following chapters:
- II. Measurement
- Analysing the measurement
- Exercise: Drill
- Finding most important piece of information
- The power of questions
- Knowledge net
- Headline questions
Included Quiz Questions
How do speed or drill exercises influence your reading speed?
- Your reading speed slightly increases but your level of comprehension stays the same.
- Your reading speed slightly increases as well as your level of comprehension.
- Your reading speed slightly increases but your level of comprehension decreases.
- Your reading speed stays the same but your level of comprehension slightly increases.
How can you influence your brain to memorize certain information? (multiple answers possible)
- You phrase open questions referring to this information.
- You phrase declarative sentences referring to this information.
- You phrase imperative sentences referring to this information.
- You phrase polar questions referring to this information.
In which situations should you use questions? (multiple answers possible)
- You are about to read a text dealing with a topic, you are familiar with.
- You have finished reading a text about a topic, you know a lot about.
- You have finished reading a text about a topic, you know little about.
- You are about to read a text dealing with a topic, you are not familiar with.
Questions are a powerful way to memorize the content of a text. How many questions should you phrase per text passage?
- One Question
- Three Questions
- Five Questions
- Ten Questions
Before reading a text you should ask yourself questions about it. What advantages do these questions have?
- Your brain is able to better select important information in the text.
- Your brain focusses on characters in the text.
- Your brain focusses on names in the text.
- Your brain focusses on vivid similes in the text.
You are reading a text with a number of pages. Which pages should be read slower than the others? (multiple answers possible)
- Pages, which contain information you are not familiar with.
- Pages, which contain information you are hardly familiar with.
- Pages, which contain information you are only a little familiar with.
- Pages, which contain information you are familiar with.
You would like to read a text as fast as possible - and still comprehend it. What should you do before reading? (multiple answers possible)
- Reading the Subheadlines
- Taking a Look at the Charts and Graphics
- Phrasing Questions Concerning the Content
- Skimming the First and Last Paragraph
Author of lecture Fast reading and understanding texts
Zach Davis
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