Reading Fundamentals

Learn how to improve your reading speed and comprehension. Speed-reading is a skill everyone can benefit from, and this course provides proven techniques to improve how much information you absorb and how fast you absorb it. Paul Nowak, the founder of Iris Reading, first asks you to measure your current reading rate, and explores the reading habits that slow people down. Then he introduces simple techniques for boosting your reading speed and practice drills to reinforce your new skill. The course then focuses on improving comprehension by understanding how memory works, practicing the "read and recall" method, and breaking down technical terms. The final chapter introduces some advanced tips and strategies for reading different types of media: news and magazine articles, textbooks, technical material, and ebooks.

Learn how to improve your reading speed and comprehension. Speed-reading is a skill everyone can benefit from, and this course provides proven techniques to improve how much information you absorb and how fast you absorb it. Paul Nowak, the founder of Iris Reading, first asks you to measure your current reading rate, and explores the reading habits that slow people down.

Covers the basics of reading comprehension skills and strategies, activities and techniques that can help improve students’ ability to understand what they read. Understanding context is key to reading success. Concise, easy-to-understand explanations are reinforced by clear, straightforward examples. Each activity/technique shows what it is, how to use it and why it’s important. Vivid graphic elements help make the activities/techniques fun to do and learn.

Covers the elements of prose, which is text written in paragraphs (as opposed to poetry). Learning the difference between fiction and nonfiction is key to reading success for students in this grade range. Concise, easy-to-understand explanations are reinforced by clear, straightforward examples. Combination of table format and vivid graphic elements help make the rules fun to learn.

Covers the basics of vocabulary, the words that make up a language and help people communicate, listen, speak, write and read more clearly. Concise, easy-to-understand explanations are reinforced by clear, straightforward examples. Vivid graphic elements help make the rules fun to learn.

Covers the basics of spelling, the correct order of letters that form words, which is key to success in reading. Concise, easy-to-understand explanations are reinforced by clear, straightforward examples. Vivid graphic elements help make the rules fun to learn.

Our proven Spectrum Reading grade 5 workbook features 176 pages of engaging, lively passages in curriculum content areas. Recently updated to current national reading standards, including more nonfiction reading passages and activities. This workbook for children ages 10 to 11 contains proven instructional methods for developing reading proficiency.