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Speed Reading For Kids: Children Can Read More Than Twice As Fast As Adults
By Alexandra MacLeod

Speed reading can be achieved in two forms which are expanded reading in which readers are taught to expand peripheral reading vision horizontally and are able to catch more than 2 words at a glance, and dynamic reading in which the reader may expand peripheral vision in both vertical as well horizontal directions. The best age for teaching speed reading for kids may be between the ages of eight and twelve. In addition, speed reading is not a left brain activity and words are generally spoken and read in sequence.

Visualization Of The Written Word Decreases With Age

Speed reading is most certainly a right brained activity and speed readers often can visualize the written word from their observation of words and children, especially visualize all that they read. This visualization capacity decreases with age and children can read more than twice what adults can read. It has been well established that children can read faster that adults and so speed reading for kids will enhance their already well developed visualization faculties and it will make reading for them much the same as watching a movie.

Speed reading for kids is best exemplified by an incident that took place in September, 1977 when a local school teacher wanted his wards to be taught how to speed read. It may be quite surprising yet true to know that on the second day a girl could read forty pages in thirty seconds and also describe what had taken place in those forty pages. The next day another five children could do the same, which only shows how gifted children are and that speed reading for kids is really no big deal.

What is required is a systematic method of teaching and speed reading for kids would thenceforth be a breeze and one does not have to know how to speed read to teach others. To illustrate the point further, speed reading for kids can be just as effective with kids with ADHD who have their brains wired differently that normal kids but can still excel at speed reading because the brain uses a different part for regular reading. It is surprising to know that kids with ADHD can become top class speed readers with speeds of 10,000 words per minute and even faster. There are kids that can even read 14,000 words per minute and who are ADHD afflicted.

Author Details:
Alexandra MacLeod is an avid reader of Scottish books so she learnt speed reading to help her digest the information more quickly so that she could move on to her next book.

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