A good way to teach students how to use the strategy that follows is to guide them through it. Ask them to take out the text and demonstrate it. Make sure that they're aware that their task is not just to get through the reading, but to learn it. As our eyes move across the page they make a series of jerky movements. Whenever they come to rest on a word that is called a fixation.
Most people fixate once on each word across a line of print.
Two More Active Reading Skills Reading well involves using many skills. As you learned in the past two lessons, to be the best reader you must be active and systematic. When we are young we are taught to read to a level of basic competence. Unfortunately teaching stops before moving on to the advanced skills which can significantly increase the speed at which we read.