3/5/2023 0 Comments Speed reader machine![]() I'm glad it's been more than 30 years since anyone has seen one of these infernal machines. And, today, I fail to see my own reading pace as some kind of handicap. And, to a lot of people, this is "slow." When I was in elementary school I hated the way they tried to push me to read faster. It's just that when I read silently I go at the same speed as when I read aloud. I can't say I use this on any kind of a regular basis, but I can when I need to. The purpose was to help you be able to study more efficiently. Then she would quiz us to see what we retained. The prof would have us read about 10 pages, prompting us to turn every minute or so. We went through Fahrenheit 451 at roughly a minute a page. When I was in college I took a reading class that basically taught the same thing. However, thinking about is as an adult I'm inclined to think it's a great idea as long as it's being used with text that is reading level appropriate. I'm a little younger, and I don't remember every being subjected to such torture. This device enabled me to tell which classmates were the slower readers. 1975 was my 7th grade year, and the junior high reading teacher was using one of these. I remember that thing, don't know what it was really called, and the last time I saw one was 1975. I only had one in our school district and it was definitely NOT teacher proof! My questions are: Does anyone else remember this particular torture device? What was it called? When's the last time you saw one? They could also activate a little iris-like feature that would scroll from left to right across each line, supposedly to help us scan the text consistently as the lines flew through the machine. Each time we started a new exercise, the teacher would try to speed the machine up until the students A) screamed in agony, B) obviously couldn't grasp anything or C) both. The students tried to keep up, reading one line of text at a time, and then there would be a little quiz to see how well we comprehended the material. ![]() The projector would show one line at a time and advance one perf at a time automatically at a variety of desired speeds (.or, I should say, at the speed that the teacher desired). This one used mostly-clear 35mm film strips with lines of text on them. It was a variation on the familiar film strip projector most of us saw in school. I have some cloudy, horrifying memories of a special projector the Illinois teachers liked to use in the mid-1970s to torture slow-reading students. Topic: Vintage Elementary School "Speed Reading" Film Strip Projector Vintage Elementary School "Speed Reading" Film Strip Projector ![]() My profile | my password | search | faq & rules | forum home Home Products Store Forum Warehouse Contact Us Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE: Vintage Elementary School "Speed Reading" Film Strip Projector ![]()
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