why do we read so slowly

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…and ALL of that…

…can fit on your PC today

… at 70 miles per hour …

Why is reading the road…

…at 200 words per minute?

…easier than reading a book…

Why Do We Read So Slowly?

When We Drive…

…we think in four directions…

Right

Front

Left Back

We have to:

Watch the road

Watch the gauges

Look out for Signs

Follow Directions

…and we are so bored that we:

Listen to the radio

Talk to passengers

Talk on the cell phone

Reading is Only ONE Direction

WHY?

… and talking on the cell phone is easier

But driving a car…

Need to Understand the Brain…

…and how it processes text

You Read Letters First One At A Time

Then You Read Whole Words

You Read Groupings of Words…

Hot + Dog Become: Neither HOT

Nor a Dog

The Movie

When we are in a car…

…we see everything as a movie

The Book

However, when we read a book, we read…

Actually, we DON’T really read…

One word at a time

When We Read……

..there’s something in our head talking to us…If we look inside our head…

..there’s this imaginary little person…

…in the back of our brain…

When we read…

…it looks through our eyes to see the book

… and reads it aloud to us in the back of our head

One word at a time

Our reading speed is often limited to how fast…

…the imaginary little person can read aloud to us

One word at a time

Eyes and Ears

We actually use our eyes…

…to hear what we’re reading…

…and that’s what slows us down

Our Strategy….

…train the imaginary little person…

…to watch the movie

…and only speak up on the important stuff:

the who, what, where, when, why and how

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