Adjusting+Reading+Rate

Adjusting Reading Rate What? A strategy that reminds students that they need to adjust the rate at which they read, depending on purpose for reading, difficulty of the text and how familiar they are with the content.

Why? To teach students how to approach the rate of reading a text.

How? Introduce as a mini-lesson. Teachers may want to model with a difficult passage for students to get the gist of how to adjust depending on purpose, difficulty of text, and familiarity of content. May also want to discuss how re-read a text two or even three times can help to improve understanding and learning about what we've read.