What can students with reading disabilities do to increase their reading speed?
• Read the questions about the paragraph before you read the paragraph, then scan for key words. • Use a straightedge to help your eyes stay on the right line and avoid backing up & re-reading a lot. Or put a clear transparency over the page and highlight as you read. • Use the clear transparency to highlight key words as you read for quick review. • In general, people should read more slowly when they find • Unfamiliar terminologies not clear in context. Try to understand it in context at that point; otherwise, read on and return to it later; • Difficult sentence and paragraph structure; slow down enough to enable you to untangle them and get accurate context for the passage; • Unfamiliar or abstract concepts. Look for applications or examples of your own as well as studying those of the writer. Take enough time to get them clearly in mind; • Detailed, technical material. This includes complicated directions, statements of difficult principles, materials on which you have scant backgr
• Read the questions about the paragraph before you read the paragraph, then scan for key words. • Use a straightedge to help your eyes stay on the right line and avoid backing up & re-reading a lot. Or put a clear transparency over the page and highlight as you read. • Use the clear transparency to highlight key words as you read for quick review. • In general, people should read more slowly when they find • Unfamiliar terminologies not clear in context. Try to understand it in context at that point; otherwise, read on and return to it later; • Difficult sentence and paragraph structure; slow down enough to enable you to untangle them and get accurate context for the passage; • Unfamiliar or abstract concepts. Look for applications or examples of your own as well as studying those of the writer. Take enough time to get them clearly in mind; • Detailed, technical material. This includes complicated directions, statements of difficult principles, materials on which you have scant backgr
