Reading: The Importance Of Reading Speed And Comprehension

2 .4 Reading speed and Comprehension
Access to information will be easy through the many journals and magazines presented in a multitude of topics. Also, there is plenty of information on the World Wide Web (the Internet) which is available for access by users. While the information availability and access is increasing, most people find out that they have less time to read the material they need. Therefore, to read many comprehensive materials, speed becomes a significant element. Most of us would approve that reading development impacts to a great extent through the amount of reading one does (Anderson, Wilson, & Fielding, 1988; Postlethwaite & Ross, 1992). Reading speed is a significant aspect of teaching reading because only skilled readers

Thus, just to keep up with their peers in the measure of reading done, these slower readers have to put significantly more time and energy in their reading (Rasinski, 2000). The slowest reader causes applying so much time and attention to decoding that general reading speed is considerably thinned out; furthermore, cognitive resources that could have been used for comprehension must be moved to word recognition (LaBerge & Samuels, 1974). Slow, dis fluent reading may also be linked with a lack of sensitivity to meaningful phrasing and sentence structure that also helps the reader create the meaning of the text (Schreiber, 1980). For most children, slow reading is accompanying with poor comprehension and poor general reading performance. Research dating back over 60 years indicates that faster readers be likely to have better comprehension over what is read and tend to be, generally, more good readers (Carver, 1990, Pinnell et al., 1995). Slow reading needs readers to spend greatly greater amounts of time in their reading task than classmates who are reading at a speed proper for their grade level should be a major reason for concern for all teachers (Resinky,