Just to add to this discussion.
I've recently been reading books on exam techniques for my kids and the world champion memory master recommends using your finger under the words to help the brain concentrate when studying, you automatically stop with the punctuation too.
It's a technique that is frowned upon in some of our primary schools as the 'experts' think it slows down reading.
i dont know that seems kind of weird to me...is that technique for smaller kids?
if there is a really long complicated sentance ina science book i would do that but not all the time.
It's usually taught to small kids to focus their eyes and then stopped by teachers later. However, this guy memorised the phone book and showed how it worked by some tests in his book. It works for all ages and helps us to remember what we've read.
For example, I'd to read a 500 word essay normally about something boring and then had to answer 10 detailed questions. I knew 3 for definite, 4 I guessed correctly and the other 3 I got wrong.
Then I'd to read a different 750 word boring essay using my finger to follow the words, then answer 10 questions. I got every single one of them right!! I couldn't believe it!!
I tutor kids privately from 10-15 yo so now I have every single one of them using their finger in order to read questions correctly and to remember everything that they've read. My kids are crafty though and they don't pass this technique on to their friends. They pretend they're just poor readers - all of a sudden ;o)
thats interesting, maybe it has something to do with adding somethign visual (your finger) to it. or maybe it has to do with that it forces you to read it slower.
When I read intense scientific material I sometimes do that or I will fold a piece of paper and run underneath the line of text I am reading and follow along that way too.
There are a lot of things wrong with the way that schools are run these days. I think many social engineers and social scientists use our schools as their giant petri dish to figure out what things they can change and what things they can destroy that are considered by previous generations to be institutions and fine traditions.
Sight-reading is another example. They want kids to associate the letters CAT together to be "cat" not sound it out and learn the phonetics "Cuh-a-a-T" The way I was taught in school. That is being done in the name of speed and it is sad because phonetics teach the skill for a lifetime and help those who struggle to read.
They are experimenting with the children's whole future, change for change sake! It makes me so angry!! I am left to pick up the pieces from my local primary school and get these children reading! They know me very well, as one parent was so furious with the headmaster, she wanted to know why his stupid school couldn't teach her son to read in 5 years (with extra reading lessons 7 times a week) and it only took me 5 weeks, seeing him twice a week!
These children disrupt the class, play truant from school and then end up in trouble - and often jail. It breaks my heart as there only is me, and I can't help them all!!
How do you read when your reading to yourself?
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Just to add to this discussion.
I've recently been reading books on exam techniques for my kids and the world champion memory master recommends using your finger under the words to help the brain concentrate when studying, you automatically stop with the punctuation too.
It's a technique that is frowned upon in some of our primary schools as the 'experts' think it slows down reading.
Don't start me though about these 'experts'!!!
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i dont know that seems kind of weird to me...is that technique for smaller kids?
if there is a really long complicated sentance ina science book i would do that but not all the time.
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It's usually taught to small kids to focus their eyes and then stopped by teachers later. However, this guy memorised the phone book and showed how it worked by some tests in his book. It works for all ages and helps us to remember what we've read.
For example, I'd to read a 500 word essay normally about something boring and then had to answer 10 detailed questions. I knew 3 for definite, 4 I guessed correctly and the other 3 I got wrong.
Then I'd to read a different 750 word boring essay using my finger to follow the words, then answer 10 questions. I got every single one of them right!! I couldn't believe it!!
I tutor kids privately from 10-15 yo so now I have every single one of them using their finger in order to read questions correctly and to remember everything that they've read. My kids are crafty though and they don't pass this technique on to their friends. They pretend they're just poor readers - all of a sudden ;o)
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thats interesting, maybe it has something to do with adding somethign visual (your finger) to it. or maybe it has to do with that it forces you to read it slower.
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It doesn't force you to read slower you can move your finger as fast as you like. It focuses your eyes and so brain, on the words and meaning.
There is only one reason that we read and that is to understand what we've read, so often it is essential that we remember what we've read.
It's useful for studying!
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thats true, ill give that a try...though probably not in public haha
When I read intense scientific material I sometimes do that or I will fold a piece of paper and run underneath the line of text I am reading and follow along that way too.
There are a lot of things wrong with the way that schools are run these days. I think many social engineers and social scientists use our schools as their giant petri dish to figure out what things they can change and what things they can destroy that are considered by previous generations to be institutions and fine traditions.
Sight-reading is another example. They want kids to associate the letters CAT together to be "cat" not sound it out and learn the phonetics "Cuh-a-a-T" The way I was taught in school. That is being done in the name of speed and it is sad because phonetics teach the skill for a lifetime and help those who struggle to read.
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They are experimenting with the children's whole future, change for change sake! It makes me so angry!! I am left to pick up the pieces from my local primary school and get these children reading! They know me very well, as one parent was so furious with the headmaster, she wanted to know why his stupid school couldn't teach her son to read in 5 years (with extra reading lessons 7 times a week) and it only took me 5 weeks, seeing him twice a week!
These children disrupt the class, play truant from school and then end up in trouble - and often jail. It breaks my heart as there only is me, and I can't help them all!!