Speed Reading Standing Assignments
Sample
Reading
Choose a book to be reading for this course. Make sure that the book is in class with you every day. We will do silent reading at the end of every class if we can.
Journal
You are to keep a reading log in your journal every day. You should list unfamiliar words and their definitions. Have two quotations from what you have read in your outside reading book and their significance to you. Comment on the content of the book and how it is moving and your reaction to what is happening. You will respond to the selections that we read as part of your effort to increase your speed and your progress in each area of speed.
Vocabulary
With each speed reading segment, you will have ten vocabulary words to look up and learn. You will have a test on these every week and the tests will be cumulative for all eighty of the words.
Charts
You will be keeping a chart of your progress in speed drills, pace drills, and skimming drills.