This chapter contains information for the mechanical conditions and decisions that can be used to increase and vary reading rate, such as conscious effort to control eye-movement patterns. The five aspects of eye movement that affect reading rate include: (1) speed of left-to-right progression; (2) number of fixations or "eye stops"; (3) size of eye span or amount of print seen in each fixation; (4) speed of return sweep from the end of one line to the start of the next; (5) the number of regressions or backward eye movements. Vocalization and subvocalization work against the reader to decrease efficiency while cluster and key word reading, pacing, and rereading selections tend to increase efficiency. These concepts are discussed, and practice exercises to increase reading speed are provided.
