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Chapter 1: Developing Your Efficiency and Flexibility

Efficiency and flexibility are crucial to fluent reading. This chapter provides information on how these elements affect the reader's ability to accomplish reading tasks effectively. In addition, the characteristics and circumstances that affect reading rate and comprehension are discussed along with the importance of varying reading rate according to the type of material that is read. Exercises for establishing purpose and reading speed are provided.

This chapter also includes a learning style questionnaire along with a scoring grid, and information for analyzing and interpreting results. Learning styles are explained in terms of auditory-visual, applied-conceptual, spatial-verbal, social-independent, and creative-pragmatic. A matrix of learning strategies is provided for capitalizing on learning strengths and for creating new habits to overcome limitations.

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