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slow reading a'la Shmoop... Bobby likes

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to do everything fast likes to drive fast he likes

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to eat first even likes to read fast and why

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not Well between homework and band practice boy scouts and

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his blogged bobby has a lot to do He doesn't [Bobby with his laptop]

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have time to appreciate the finer points and deeper meanings

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of the novels he has to read for english class

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but its speed reading really the answer to bobby's very

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full schedule See scientists have found that when people speed [Scientists look at person speed reading]

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read and simply skim over the words in a book

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they miss a lot like those details of english teachers

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love to test you on but more than grades or

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at stake here Not only do we learn important lessons

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from books but literature also helps us develop into better [Rabbit reading a book]

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more awesome people Generally speaking enter the slow reading movement

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where a speed reading is all about getting through text

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as quickly as possible Slow reading requires us to take [Bobby meditating in bed]

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our time with books so we can truly understand the

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words on the page while also enjoying the story The

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author has fun for us Look at it this way

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Now look at it this way and this way Instead

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of flying through the lord of the rings slow reading

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this trilogy gives us the opportunity to think about bravery [Frodo encounters giant spider]

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and friendship while also counting the number of times gandalf

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could have just summoned those darn eagles for a quick

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flight in to Mordor.. Instead of skimming over beloved

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slow reading this novel forces us to contemplate the horrors

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and consequences of slavery and thank our lucky stars we

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aren't being haunted by a dead baby so how to [Ghost appears in woods]

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slow reading work Exactly It isn't like we have to

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read one word at a time really really slowly We

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give up on reading altogether if we had to read

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it a snail's pace Besides the human brain doesn't work [Snail reading a book]

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or read that way Instead slow reading is about savoring

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the story likely would a steak For example one way

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too slow read is to read a sentence a paragraph

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or a page allowed We could also find a line [Bobby reading book]

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that we particularly like and memorize it or take the

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opening story of a paragraph and ponder what possible past

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the author could lead us down Whatever method we want [Author walks down a path]

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to think about the words in front of us and

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what we can get out of them rather than skipping

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over them as fast as possible So that a minute

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or two later we have no idea what was on [Bobby races to finish line]

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the page We just finished of course just like busy

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bobby We all have demands on our time Slow reading

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may seem like a luxury but it's a luxury we

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should make time for Think of all the people we

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could meet in books all the adventures we can have [Voldemort chasing Harry]

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all the places we could visit that we'll probably never

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see and all the things we can learn that we

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can carry with us into real life So young bobby

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relax Take a chill pill We guarantee that your trombone

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and freakout assignment we'll still be there for you when [A fire appears]

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you close that copy of fahrenheit four fifty one After

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all slow reading isn't just about reading so you don't

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miss a word it's about carrying more for what's between

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the covers of a book then for just getting the book over with...

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