Rapid Read: A Professional Speed Reading Program

10/21/2018

A great mystery to check out, download, or buy. Written by one of the actresses from Downton Abbey.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫 4 1/2 Stars!

With only a 7 day check-out on “Too Hot to Hold” books ( ), speed reading skills are definitely your friend! ❤️📚

05/04/2018

So excited to be teaching Speed Reading Skills for the third year in a row to the City of Plano employees.

01/09/2018

Collin College Continuing Education will be offering Rapid Read as part of their Skills Training Classes this Spring 2018. You can follow the link below to sign up for the classes. The dates are as follows:

Tues Feb. 6: 6:30 - 9:30 pm
Thurs Feb. 8: 6:30-9:30 pm
Tues Feb. 13: 6:30-9:30 pm
Thurs Feb 15: 6:30-9:30 pm

This is a wonderful and exciting opportunity to learn how to increase your reading speed (double or tripling!) while improving comprehension.

Course #73611 Speed Reading

Hope to see you there!

Sign up Information:

CE Course Listings CE Course Listings (Beta) CE Certificate Series and Certification Preparation Listings Concurrent Course Listings Financial Aid Instructions COURSE OUTLINE (syllabi)

09/01/2017

07/12/2017

There's more than one way to read!

There are four "tools" in your Reading Tool Box: Skimming, Scanning, Linear Reading, and Rapid Reading.

Each tool can be used to read any type of reading material. You might even use all four tools for one reading assignment.

Isn't it nice to have choices?

06/16/2017

A wonderful but long novel with many pages and detailed descriptions by Elizabeth Berg. One of the advantages of speed reading is knowing your book is due at the library, but you are able to speed read it to completion that morning. ⚡️🔜🏆

06/07/2017

📚 Reading is fun 📚

05/31/2017

Have you ever felt this way? 📚💜

05/23/2017

Freedom is our birthright.

It is hard to describe the feelings some books evoke. This one in particular. The horrors of slavery are recounted in Cora's journey through the Underground Railroad, the brutality she experiences and those who suffer for helping her along the way.

Colson's tale, based upon historical accounts, shows a violent pre-civil war America where a nation, particularly the south, was trying to form its identity and build an empire off the sweat and toil of the African slaves.

Colson's writing is honest. Slave turns upon slave, white upon white, and help often comes from the most unexpected sources.

The hatred is also honest and difficult to read at times. We don't want to think about this awful time in our country's history, to believe citizens capable of such gruesome actions, but this quote comes to mind: "you don't know where you're going until you know where you've been."

Cora's courage through every frightful turn of her journey to freedom is inspiring. Equally inspiring are the actions of the abolitionists who hid, fed, and risked their lives to help her along the way.

May her story remind us how fortunate we are to wake up every day with choices for our lives. May we be eternally grateful for those who have fought, lost, won, and continue to protect our individual freedom - the abolitionist, the soldier, the every day citizen who makes a stand for what is right - may they never be taken for granted or forgotten.

05/09/2017

Myth: You should understand EVERY word you read in order to comprehend the passage.

Fact: When you are reading and come across an unfamiliar word, SKIP it! Its meaning will usually be explained within the context of the paragraph.

05/03/2017

Linear reading can be defined as reading word by word, line by line, from left to right across a page. It was how we were taught to read as children.

As beginning speed readers, we are taught to read vertically down the page using a pacer as a guide for our eyes. Vertical reading easily doubles our reading speed.

04/25/2017

80%-90% of our information comes from reading, so the faster you read, the more you are more informed!