Skills are transferrable. Good readers feel an internal voice reading out loud to them. They also see a mental movie or mental picture of visual description in text. They identify and emphasize key points and the relationships between these points, often creating hierarchical outlines and mind maps. In addition, they do preview and review, often restating what they have read.
Good skills get better with use.
Very frequently none of this happens for poor readers. New research has shown that it is not even possible for these things to happen for many poor readers by reading with the traditional tools of good readers. They need different specific working tools to instantly achieve the same ends as good readers. Proportional Reading provides these tools. Specifically, many average and poor readers often have many processing problems which make it impossible to read like good readers.