GATEWAY ADVANTAGE

Reading
1&2

Workbook
Gateway
Preparatory
School

www.gatewayprep.co The Gateway Reading Advantage

With Howard Berg

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How to Use This Workbook

SAVE THIS DOCUMENT UNDER A DIFFERENT NAME ONCE YOU OPEN IT

This is an MS Word document. You have two options:

1. Print this document and write your notes in the column next to the slide title

2. Open this as a Word document and type in your notes in the column next to the slide title. The
cell will expand as you type your notes. Also, you can set your Workbook, Reference Material,
and the DVD program in separate windows and move among them on your PC.

Note templates for both DVDs are in this document

# DVD 1 Slide Title Notes

1 Gateway Reading Advantage

2 Contact Information

3 Before You Begin

4 Information Overload

5 Can’t Read Can’t Count

6 Learning Statistics

7 Presentation Summary:
How your mind decodes text
8 Presentation Summary:
How to increase reading speed
9 Presentation Summary:
Maximizing results
10 Presentation Summary:
Reading for comprehension

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# DVD 1 Slide Title Notes

11 Presentation Summary:
Increasing emotional intelligence
12 Presentation Summary:
Effective study strategies
13 Presentation Summary:
How to develop a powerful memory
14 How Did This Get Started?

15 SUNY Binghamton

16 How Does the Brain Work?

17 Test Your Initial Reading Speed

18 Reading Speed Test

19 Why Do We Read Text Slowly?

20 How Do We Comprehend Text?:

Dog
21 How Do We Comprehend Text?
Hot Dog
22 How Do We Comprehend Text?
United States of America
23 The Meaning of Schema

24 The Woman Wore a Red Dress

25 The Three Levels of Textual Meaning

26 Experiment: Green

27 Experiment: Blue

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# DVD 1 Slide Title Notes

28 Do We Memorize?

29 The Three Levels of Textual Meaning:

Implied Information
30 The Three Levels of Textual Meaning:
Inferential Meaning
31 The Three Levels of Textual Meaning:
Art of the Deal
32 Success & Reading

33 The Dime Story

34 The Dime Story: Silver

35 The Dime Story: Screw driver

36 The Dime Story: Roosevelt

37 Swimmer

38 Kids

39 Milk

40 The Dime Story

41 The Dime Story: Roosevelt

42 Polio

43 The Dime Story: Roosevelt

44 The Dime Story

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# DVD 1 Slide Title Notes

45 Half picture

46 Whole Picture of Mona Lisa

47 Lack of Schema

48 Schema is in

49 Mental Storyboard

50 Lack of Schema

51 Writing With Specialized Words

52 Inflective Meaning

53 Using More Senses 1

54 Questions & Learning

55 Using More Senses 2

56 Rich Schema

57 Perspective & Meaning

58 Inferential

59 Rich Schema

60 16 Minute Drill

61 Baseball

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# DVD 1 Slide Title Notes

62 16 Minute Drill

63 Swimmer

64 Hand Motion Video

65 Backwards Hand Motion

66 Reading Backwards:
Not something everyone can do
67 Reading Backwards:
Choose the reading strategies …
68 Reading Backwards:
Automatically doubles your reading
speed
69 Many Languages Read Backwards

70 Useful Tip

71 Backwards Hand Motion

72 Mental Storyboard

73 Backward Hand Motion

74 Backward Hand Motion Narrow Lines

75 Backward Hand Motion

76 Bolded Schematic Clues

77 Using More Senses 1

78 Practice High Speed Reading

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# DVD 1 Slide Title Notes

79 16 Minute Drill

80 The Distribution of Textual Schema:

The opening and close chapters
81 The Distribution of Textual Schema:
The topic sentence
82 First

83 Second

84 Third

85 New Drill Strategy

86 Schema & Speed: Familiar Subject

87 Schema & Speed: Unfamiliar

88 Test Your Reading Speed

89 Reading Speed Test

End of Notes for Part 1

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Part 2

# DVD 2 Slide Title Notes

1 Four Levels of Learning

2 Increasing Your Speed

3 The Four Reading Stages (SR2Q)

4 Marking Off Important Text

5 Using A Book’s Structure:

Read the front and rear jackets
6 Creating Visual Icons

7 Using A Book’s Structure:

Read the foreword and introduction
8 Cultural Influences

9 Karl Marx

10 Using A Book’s Structure:

Skim the contents page
11 Contents Page: History

12 Contents Page: Biology

13 Using the Index: Psychology

14 Using the Index: Biology

15 Smart Students

16 Another Good Strategy

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# DVD 2 Slide Title Notes

17 Using A Book’s Structure:
Read actively
18 What Are Bacteria?

19 Look for Patterns

20 Context

21 Using Charts & Tables

22 How to Learn Difficult Material

23 Learn the Pattern of Difficult Material

24 Pattern Type 1: Size

25 Pattern 2: Temporal

26 Pattern 3: Ordinal

27 Using A Book’s Structure:

Make full use of charts and diagrams
28 Contextual Clues

29 Strategies For Clarity

30 The Berg Gazette

31 Waiting In Line

32 Reading Embedded Stories

33 Examination Strategies

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# DVD 2 Slide Title Notes

34 Studying Unfamiliar Text

35 Developing Your Emotional

Intelligence
36 Learning to Relax

37 The Types of Reading: Pleasure

Reading
38 Mona Lisa

39 How to Enjoy Pleasure Reading

40 Remembering Pleasure Reading:

Theme
41 Remembering Pleasure Reading:
King Arthur
42 Remembering Non-Fiction:
Questions
43 Remembering Non-Fiction:
Kennedy
44 The Types of Reading:
How-To Books
45 The Types of Reading: Studying

46 The Types of Reading: Technical

47 Special Subjects: Math

48 Special Subjects: Computer Text

49 The Four Learning Levels

50 Getting Exams

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# DVD 2 Slide Title Notes

51 Alternate Strategy

52 The Four Learning Levels

53 Memory Techniques: Index Cards

54 Memory Techniques: Hola

55 Memory Techniques: Index Cards

56 Memory Techniques: Music 1

57 Memory Techniques: Music 2

58 Memory Techniques: Pegging

59 Memory Techniques: Mnemonics

60 One is Pencil

61 Two is Sox

62 Three is Wheel Barrow

63 Four is Chiclet

64 Five is Hand

65 Memory Techniques: Pegging

66 Six is Gun

67 Memory Techniques Pegging

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# DVD 2 Slide Title Notes

68 Seven is Heaven

69 Memory Techniques: Pegging

70 Eight is Octopus

71 Memory Techniques: Pegging

72 Nine is Cat

73 Memory Techniques: Pegging

74 Ten is Bowling Pins

75 Pegging Table

76 Remembering Numbers

77 Memory Techniques: Mnemonics 1

78 Memory Techniques: Mnemonics 2

79 Mnemonics 3

80 The 3 Types of Memory

81 Long Term Memory

82 Cramming

83 How to Succeed

84 Ask Questions

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# DVD 2 Slide Title Notes

85 How to Succeed

86 Memory Curve

87 Note Taking

88 Reading vs. Learning

89 Sixteen Minute Drill

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