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What are wedge tables for?
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Free trial lesson in speed reading.
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What do these tables come in?
- Horizontal wedge table
- Vertical wedge table The vertical
- Wedge-shaped text
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How to work with a wedge-shaped table?
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Exercises with wedge tables
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Conclusions
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What are wedge tables for?
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Free trial lesson in speed reading.
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What do these tables come in?
- Horizontal wedge table
- Vertical wedge table The vertical
- Wedge-shaped text
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How to work with a wedge-shaped table?
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Exercises with wedge tables
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Conclusions
Wedge tables: an exercise for speed reading
One of the most popular techniques for mastering the skill of speed reading are wedge-shaped tables. What it is and what task they are designed to perform, we will understand in this article.
This exercise has been known since the XX century and has been successfully used for a long time to develop the skill of speed reading. First of all, wedge tables expand your peripheral vision or to put it simply – expands your angle of vision. After practicing with wedge-shaped tables and then with wedge-shaped text you will see much wider than a normal person. In time, you can read an entire line in a book with one glance. That’s what these exercises are for – that you can read wider, and therefore much faster. This allows you to cover a larger area of the text and reduce the time it takes to master it.
Most elementary school age children are able to read about one word at a time. The average adult speed is up to 25 words per minute. This is very low for effective learning. Modern realities require quick adaptation to reality and lightning-fast absorption of new information. Having successfully mastered the skill of speed reading you and your child will acquire a lot of advantages:
- you will be able to read phenomenally fast;
- pump up your mind: improve memory, attention, logical thinking, etc;
- get a rich vocabulary;
- improve your diction;
- you will be able to express your thoughts clearly.
The benefits of practicing with wedge-shaped tables for adults and children:
- Improved academic performance;
- increase in self-esteem;
- development of speech, memory, attention;
- qualitative processing of information.
Miraculous metamorphoses are achieved by widening the angle of vision, in which special exercises help. One of the most widespread and popular methods is wedge-shaped tables for speed reading.
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After purchasing the speed reading workbook, you will receive it in PDF format via email or messenger. You can print it and use it as much as you need.
What are wedge tables for?
The use of wedge-shaped tables for children allows you to:
- Expand the angle of vision
- Quickly and effectively assimilate new information
- Develop peripheral vision
- “Swallow the lines of books with a single glance
- Spend less time on homework
- feel much more confident
- Improve attention and memory.
Wedge tables for speed reading for kids and adults is a chance to pump up your skills and become a real superhero among your peers.
Expanding the angle of vision and generally what the angle of human vision is is shown in the picture below
When you widen your angle of vision – you simply look at the line and read not the whole line, but some honor of it – thus increasing the speed of perception of information.
Free trial lesson in speed reading.
In our Ispeedreader school you will be able to use a free trial lesson to see for yourself – whether these tasks will suit you or your child or not.
We have specially designed a trial lesson on speed reading for both adults and children. For this you need to click the button below “GET”, after which you will be redirected to the bot in Telegram. You start the bot and already in the bot you will need to choose for whom this lesson will be for – for children of different ages or speed reading lesson for adults?
After that you will receive a PDF file with the desired lesson directly in Telegram. There will be a full lesson with 10 different exercises + speed reading test + video simulator. You should download this file and preferably print it, but you can do a trial lesson directly from your phone or tablet using the PDF file.
In this file the links to the necessary videos will be in the form of QR codes + in the form of active links to the necessary video materials.
Click the button below and learn your first lesson!
What do these tables come in?
Exercise and wedge tables themselves come in a variety of forms. First of all, vertical or horizontal. Color or black-and-white, numerical or alphabetic, syllabic – where you have to make up a word by syllables. We work more with vertical tables in color and black and white, with numbers and syllables. Now we’ll break it down in detail.
Horizontal wedge table
Horizontal wedge-shaped table is shown below on the picture in black and white color consisting of numbers. How to work with this table – you simply lead your gaze from left to right in the center of the table itself, where the numbers from 1 to 18 are located. Keep your gaze only on these numbers in the center and try to read the numbers below and above with your side vision.
Vertical wedge table The vertical
wedge table is a bit like the horizontal wedge table – only here we work with our eyes from top to bottom. The picture below shows a table consisting of numbers in black and a colored table consisting of syllables to be put together.
We keep our gaze on the center of the table and gradually lower it down, with our side vision we should notice and put together the syllables on the sides. The first term consists of such syllables – BA-CK, then CA-KE and so on! Looking only at the center, widen the angle of vision in this way. It is not always possible to read the whole table from the first time – that’s okay – you need to train gradually. An easier variant of the vertical table is the dashes or dots that go from the center and help to lead the gaze from the center – as shown on the digital table in the picture. In our speed reading course, these exercises are given gradually by level of difficulty – from easy to difficult.
Wedge-shaped text
This is a more complex exercise, which also develops side vision and widens the angle of vision. Here the conditions are closer to the real one – you need to read only the words that are highlighted in red – only the center of the text, and the rest of the text should be read with side vision. Example on the picture below
How to work with a wedge-shaped table?
We have already described the mechanics above, but in any case, you need your concentration in the center of the table itself – your gaze should not go to one of the sides. Everything that is to the side – you should read or try to do it with your side vision, which we train.
For toddlers, instead of numbers and letters, pictures can be used. For the very youngest, wedge-shaped tables are recommended download. It is important to choose the right time for training to avoid overwork. The first results will be noticeable after a couple of weeks of daily exercise.
Exercises with wedge tables
We will teach you and your child to read much faster than his peers. Online lessons are available on our website, as well as the option to purchase and download the workbook. Our resource also offers downloadable wedge-shaped speed reading worksheets for self-study. We will help you:
- pump your memory, attention and thinking;
- read several books a week;
- concentrate better;
- expand your peripheral vision.
Specialists recommend printing wedge-shaped tables, as in this case the lessons will be much more effective. We will select tasks for different ages taking into account the individual characteristics of the child.
Wedge-shaped tables are a type of training schemes reminiscent of the classic Schulte tables, but with gradually changing row widths, creating a “wedge-shaped” visual effect. Their purpose is to develop peripheral vision and concentration by complicating perception and searching for given elements. Working with wedge-shaped tables helps to speed up reading and increase the stability of attention.
Conclusions
First, regular use of wedge-shaped tables helps to increase the speed of information processing and improve the ability to see a wider range of objects in a single glance. Second, practicing with such charts has a compound effect on cognitive skills, including memory and the ability to shift attention quickly. Third, wedge-shaped tables are effective for both novice and experienced speed-reading practitioners, complementing other reading development techniques. Finally, integrating these tables into daily exercises increases interest and promotes more steady progress.
