Contents

1. Checking your reading speed: how to organize
2. Normal reading speed for children
   1. Reading speed at the age of 6-8 years
   3. Reading speed at the age of 7-9 years
   4. Reading speed at the age of 8-10 years
   5. Reading speed at the age of 10-12 years
3. Ispeedreader speed reading exercises
4. More free simulators, tests and materials on the ispeedreader website
5. Conclusions.

Reading speed test

One of the most important indicators in the modern world is the speed of reading words. And reading speed implies the speed of information consumption. This skill is necessary not only for students but also for adults to easily navigate the ever-changing information that comes in huge quantities every day. A reading speed test will help you determine your current level and plan work to improve your results.

Checking your reading speed: how to organize

A stopwatch will help you check your reading speed. The text should be read in a minute. The text itself should not be of a technical nature, nor should it contain unfamiliar terms or be primitive. You should also not choose poetry for the test – the whole point of the test is lost. You should choose prose with less dialog and more descriptions. However, the point of such a test of adult reading speed is lost, since you will not be able to assess the awareness of what you read.

You can take a self-test of your reading speed for both children and adults in our free trial speed reading lesson – download it, take the test, and then take the lesson! You will be given a certain size of text with a certain number of words – you need to read this text completely – and then calculate your reading speed using the instructions that will be present there!

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Normal reading speed for children

The average reading speed of an adult is up to 180 words per minute. A good rate is 200-250. The speed reading skill allows you to read up to 1,000 words per minute. The average value after a speed reading course is 350-600 words per minute.

Children’s performance varies with age.

Reading speed at the age of 6-8 years

Reading speed at the age of 7-9 years

Reading speed at the age of 8-10 years

Reading speed at the age of 10-12 years

Reading technique and norms are formed throughout life. The main stages of reading speed formation:

1. reading speed by grade – tempo;
2. method
3. awareness
4. correctness;
5. expressiveness.

Prices for Speed Reading Workbooks

Speed Reading Workbook
Ages 6-8

• Workbook in PDF format
• Reading speed test
• 21 lessons
• 210 practical tasks
• 7 homework assignments
• QR codes for video tasks
• Over 250 pages of practice

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Speed Reading Workbook
Ages 13-16

• Workbook in PDF format
• Reading speed test
• 21 lessons
• 210 practical tasks
• 9 homework assignments
• QR codes for video tasks
• Over 250 pages of practice

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Speed Reading Workbook
for Adults

• Workbook in PDF format
• Reading speed test
• 21 lessons
• 210 practical tasks
• 9 homework assignments
• QR codes for video tasks
• Over 250 pages of practice

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Ispeedreader speed reading exercises

Before proceeding with the exercises, we suggest taking an online speed reading test. The test is free of charge. The result is generated automatically with recommendations. If you are not satisfied with the result and you are not satisfied with the speed and quality of memorizing information, we recommend that you master the speed reading technique and sign up for our speed reading course for children and adults. This will help you save time by quickly absorbing as much new information as possible. You will be able to skip unnecessary parts of the text, extracting only the key concepts and putting them together in a coherent picture.

Useful skills that you will acquire as a result of mastering speed reading skills

• concentration of attention;
• expanding the angle of vision;
• suppression of articulation;
• ability to quickly identify keywords and skip the “water”;
• improvement of memory and thought processes.

TOP exercises for developing reading speed:

1. Schulte tables;
2. Stroop test;
3. Kelly’s simulator;
4. reading in reverse order;
5. reading upside down;
6. our homework assignments – very useful for improving your reading speed.

More free simulators, tests and materials on the ispeedreader website

There are also free materials, tests, and online simulators on our website that you can download or take online. Follow any of the links and get the material or information you need for free!

• Kelly simulator
• Gorbov-Schulte simulator
• online Schulte tables
• Stroop test
• Schulte test

You can develop speed reading skills at home. At the initial stages, the child needs the help of parents. There are exercises available:

• word search;
• reading with pauses;
• asynchronous reading;
• covering what has been read;
• visual dictations;
• adjustments.

All these exercises, as well as other interesting author’s lessons, can be found in our course or in workbooks for children and adults.

As a result of regular lessons, your child will learn to read quickly and consciously. To make more progress, we recommend that you first take a reading speed test on our website. We also offer speed reading courses for all age groups:

1. Speed reading for children aged 6-8 years;
2. Speed reading for children aged 9-12;
3. Speed reading for teenagers aged 13-16;
4. Speed reading for adults.

We have an individual approach to each age, and a free trial lesson in PDF format is available. For adults, the Ispeedreader school also has a 21-day workbook course with more than 250 tasks. For children, we also have workbooks for different age groups – for 21 days of classes – all tasks are designed for different ages of students!

If you decide to develop not only your reading speed, but also your memory, attention, and IQ, the speed reading course from Ispeedreader School will definitely suit you! The site also has many free and additional exercises!

Additional exercises are aimed at:

1. development of attention, memory and thinking;
2. exercises for balancing the cerebral hemispheres;
3. expanding peripheral vision;
4. training eye muscles.

Conclusions.

Reading fluency testing plays an important role in assessing reading skills in both children and adults, allowing you to identify problem areas in time and monitor developmental dynamics. For children, early diagnosis helps to identify possible difficulties and adjust the learning process, supporting the formation of literacy and interest in reading. For adults, regular assessment of reading speed makes it possible to improve their own technique and increase productivity at work or school. It is important to take into account not only speed but also the level of reading comprehension: the optimal balance between them ensures better information assimilation. Various methods, including tests and exercises to improve reading speed, allow you to individually select a suitable development plan. In general, regular reading speed testing helps to strengthen reading skills and maintain motivation for further growth and mastery of new knowledge.