She Is A Claims Representative for the Social Security Administration She Likes to Paint She Can Read 2500 Words a minute.

Watching Joan's hand fly over the pages (her hand acts as a pacer) you can't believe that she's actually reading. She must be skimming.

But she's not.

The first time Joan read "War and Peace," it took weeks. The second time, one night. At work, she feels that she has gained half an hour for each hour's reading.

Moreover, she can comprehend and recall what she's read--right down to the particulars.

Joan is not unusual. Nor does she naturally read so fast. She learned this revolutionary technique of rapid reading at the Evelyn Wood Reading Dynamics Institute . . . along with more than 6,000 other persons in the Boston and Providence Area.

She was one of our better students. She started the course at about 570 words a minute, and increased her rate in some material 20 times. Our average student begins at about 300 words a minute and finishes at speeds over 1200 words a minute.

You can do this, too.

Reading Dynamics students often say that reading dynamically has made them want to read so much more. One has no sense of reading words. In Joan's words, "It's fantastic. You can hardly believe what your mind can do until you prove it to yourself. I think everyone should take this course."

You may not learn to read quite as fast as Joan (and then again you might!), but the nationally known Reading Dynamics Institute guarantees that you will receive a full tuition refund if you do not at least triple your reading efficiency with good comprehension.

Just to show you that Joan is not unique, here are typical samples of progress in words per minute by Reading Dynamics graduates in the Boston and Providence Area.

Utah schoolteacher discovers technique of dynamic reading.

Evelyn Wood first observed dynamic reading 18 years ago when a professor at the University of Utah read her term paper at an amazing 6000 words a minute. Mrs. Wood's curiosity caused her to look for other exceptional readers, and over the next few years she found 50 people who could read faster than 1500 words per minute with fine comprehension, outstanding recall and great reading satisfaction.

She was now sure it was possible to read faster than anyone had thought, but the question of how was not yet answered. It took 8 years of toil and research, working with naturally fast readers before she began to find the answers. Eventually she developed a technique whereby the average student was able to learn to read 3 to 10 times faster.

She taught her method at the University of Utah for three years, refining it even more. Further studies were conducted at the University of Delaware, and the first Reading Dynamics Institute was opened in Washington, D.C., in September, 1959. Since that time, institutes have been opened in 61 cities throughout the country, and national enrollment for the course has topped 400,000.