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Show ie es Mrs. Yvonne Quist doesn’t waste a second. Recently, she read all of Bromfield’s “The Man Who Had Everything” while her husband fixed flat. She reads at 3,500 words per minute. ‘You'll find this hard to believe, but Mrs, Yvonne Quist of Salt Lake City actually sat in the back seat of their 1965 wagon and read (not skimmed) an entire book, cover to cover—270 pages of medium sized print, All this in the time it took her husband to changea tire. Impossible, you say? A freak talent? Mrs. Quist will be thefirst to tell you she’s no genius when it comes to reading, All herlife she read about 314 words a minute—just a little faster than the national average. The problem with Mrs. Quist was that she read the “old way”—word by word, Tf you don’t think that’s a problem,try an experiment: see how fast you can talk. You'll find you reach a limit —about 225 words a minute if you’re good. When you sound out words in your head, you bog down in the dven reading phrase by phrase has its modest limi ms, But when youtrain your eye to move down the page andread chunks of text—even long paragraphs—at a glance, there's almost nolimit to the amount of material you can cover. Canonereally comprehend this way? Why,you're doingit all the time, For exampie, mn you drive a car, you don’t look at everything happening on the road, item by item. Your eye takes in the whole scene at a glance, and your mind puts it together to form a “picture.” ‘You can do the samething with reading. Then why do wetend to read slowly? ‘We're trained to hear every word weread, and see each word in sequence. Until recently, nobody believed it could be done anyother way. It took Evelyn Wood almost twenty ts of study to evolve a newreading technique that allows you to read at unusually high rates with no sacrifice of comprehension or reading enjoyment. There's no trick, And there's no mystery. We show you what to do, andyoupractice until the new habit 1s formed, You can doit, too! ‘You probably have one more question—was Mr, Quist impressed with his wife’s amazing speed? Not really. Hereads at over 3,805 words a minute! And just look at the beginning and ending speeds of other typical readers like yourself. Improvementby typical graduates in words per minute. LaVon Brown WPM Comprehensionis stressed. At a recent teacher training conference, Mrs, Wood emphasized that dynamic readingis nothing like the skimming techniques commonlyused in speed reading courses. She said, “Skipping words is dangerous, as you don’t know whetheror not you have skipped a word which could change the whole meaning of the sentence.” “You read five times faster,” she pointedout, “not by reading every fifth word, but by reading five times as many wordsin the same amountof time.” Mrs. Wood emphasized that using her technique of rapid reading, every word on the pageis read. 456 WPM 180 1725 Maureen Derrick, Teacher Richard Harper, Speech Therapist Joel Warner, Sales Manager 480 Rybert Allan David Blake, Student 3 244 3447 263 2150 Glenn Call, Student 590 2 428 Robert Erickson, Salesman Steve Bullock, Student Glen Landon 300 1531 210 2954 300 3182 230 415 870 2 Arthur Draper. Computer Programmer 415 AVERAGE WPM AVERAGE COMP 25 290 2000 362 2136 460 2180 400 2500 John Taylor Pres. Data Grad. Assis. Dou Thompson, Student 292 2300 221 2758 69% 86° No mechanical pacers. She was also critical of reading courses that use a mevhanical pacer, as students tend to revert to previous reading speeds oncethe paceris notthere to help them. When reading dynamically, the reader’s hand is used as a pacer. 304 2419 10% 9% Utah schoolteacher discovers dynamic reading. Evelyn Wood first observed dynamicreading 18 years ago when a professor at the University of Utah read her term paper at an amazing 6,000 words a minute. Mrs. Wood’s curiosity caused her to Icok for other exceptionalreaders, and over the next fewyears she found 50 people who could read faster than 1,500 words per minute, with fine comprehension, outstanding recall and great reading satisfaction. She was now sure it was possible to read faster than anyonehad thought, but the question of how was not yet answered. Eventually she developed a technique wherebythe average student wasable to learn to read 8 to 10 times faster. MONDAY THROUGH topped 300,000 Easy Reading Difficult Reading Beg. Beg. End ‘WPM SEE FREE DEMONSTRATIONS She taught her method at the University of Utah for three years, refining it even more. Further studies were conducted at the University of Delaware, andthefirst Reading Dynamics Institute was opened in Washington, D.C. in September, 1959. Since that time, institutes have been opened in 75 major cities throughout the country, and nationalenrollment for the course has THURSDAY FEBRUARY 5-8 5 and 8 p.m Eldred Center 270 W. 5th North Provo Each demonstration lasts 1 hr. and 15 min. One person atend of thisseries of demonstrations will win a fully paid scholarship to Reading Dynamics. Money back guarantee | | | Weguarantee to increase the reading efficiency of each student AT LEAST 3 times. We will refund the entire tuition to any student who, after completing minimum class and study requirement, does not at | least triple his reading efficiency as measured by our beginning and ending tests. Reading efficiency i \ combines rates and comprehension, not speed alone. ) i © You will see. a Reading Dynamics graduate read at amazir y speeds from a bookhehas never seen before and then tell in detail what he has read. * You will see a documented film that includes actual interviews with Washington Senators who have taken the course. You will learn how we can help you to faster reading, with improved comprehension, greaterrecall. Evelyn Wood READING DYNAMICS INSTITUTE SALT LAKECITY: 445 East Second South + Tel. 328-0121 PROVO: 290 North University - Tel. 373-0414 |