Key No. 1
[ The Sense Framing Reading Technique ]
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The ability to frame words together that make sense is innate in
all of us. |
Development
of an Effective Reading Technique
The basic principle underlying this system is
that words are grouped into [ SENSE
FRAMES ] thus resolving a wide range of reading difficulties. Once you have
been trained into [ FRAMING WORDS
TOGETHER THAT MAKE SENSE ] the process becomes automatic.
Using a Reading Guide
Initially you will require a coloured transparent
guide, preferably light green, cut into a 4.5 cm. wide strip by 20 cm. long
approximately. This guide will be used to control your eye movements instead of
looking at each word you will now be looking at groups of words.
The Framing Technique
The guide should cover three or four words at a
time and should be moved in steps, not slid, across the sentence. Alternatively
the guide can be placed immediately beneath a set of words and moved in steps
to the next set of words.
The width of the guide can be reduced or
increased to suit your initial span of vision and increased progressively until
your optimum span of vision is attained. The objective is to maximise the
number of words you can focus on as you read each sentence and thus divide each
sentence into a minimum number of [
FRAMES ]. A newspaper column line width is a typical [ FRAME ]. The transparent guide, however, will not always span
exactly a set of words that make sense. This leads me to the next phase.
Making
Sense of the Framing Technique
The [
FRAMES ] themselves will generate a need for sense to be made of them. The
ability to frame words together that make sense is innate in all of us, but it
needs to be developed through awareness, anticipation, inquisitiveness and
concentration. The appropriate additional words necessary to make sense of the
frame will then be automatically sought after and added to the frame to make a [ SENSE FRAME ].
Optimising Reading Rates and Developing
Concentration
The guide's stepped movement rate can be
increased or decreased depending on the subject matter and on your
comprehension rate. The guide develops an incentive to optimise your reading
rate and develop your concentration. Once these have been attained to your satisfaction
they will be maintained but can improved. Eventually when sufficient experience
has been obtained in applying [ THE
WORDS THAT MAKE SENSE FRAMING TECHNIQUE ] the guide can be dispensed with
and you should automatically continue to optimise the span of words that will
convey the sense of the sentence in the minimum of time and with the maximum
comprehension.
Applications
of the Sense Framing Technique
The selected sentences below have been laid-out
using an example of [ THE WORDS THAT
MAKE SENSE FRAMING TECHNIQUE ]. The appropriate guide +------------------+
has been placed in a stepped fashion above the blocks of words thus creating
the [FRAMES] and the [ F R A M E S ] themselves have been [e
x t e n d e d ] to make sense where necessary.
_+----------------------+ ____+----------------------+_________ +----------------------+
[ The basic principle ] [ underlying this system ] [ is that words are grouped
together ]
_+----------------------+ ____________+----------------------+ ________+----------------------+
[ into frames that make sense ] [ thus controlling a wide range ] [ of reading
difficulties ].
_+----------------------+_________________
+----------------------+ ____ +--------------------+
[ Once the reader has been trained ] [ into framing words together] [ that make
sense ]
_+----------------------+
[ the process becomes automatic ].
An alternative system is to edit sections of text into [ SENSE FRAMES ] using a pencil to insert brackets as shown below.
These brackets can be erased once the technique has been mastered.
[ The basic principle ][ underlying this system ][ is that words are grouped
together ][ into frames that make sense ][ thus controlling a wide range ][ of
reading difficulties].[Once the reader has been trained ]
[ into framing words together][ that make sense
][ the process becomes automatic ].
For young readers or those who have particular difficulties in reading, the [ SENSE FRAMES ] can be laid-out in
single-line format. Exercises can be developed using this approach initially
until the reader is ready to progress to edited paragraph reading or to using
the guide.
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[ The basic principle
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Students and teachers with access to personal
computers with basic word processing software can easily create the above types
of exercises to facilitate in learning or teaching the [ SENSE FRAMING ] technique.
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