In some of our earlier articles we talked about different types of readers. Some students can be identified as motor readers who are lip movers or vocalizers. Such readers are extremely slow readers as they accompany their reading with various movements of the muscles of articulation. Another category is of auditory readers, who "hear" the words they read, but they do not sub-vocalize to themselves. Third category is of visual readers that are the fastest, and they do not "hear" what they are reading. They simply see a word and understand its meaning. Below we are giving the reading strategy solutions for students who suffer owing to their inefficient habits. When the habits are good, reading is efficient and swift; when the habits are bad, reading is slow, inefficient and unsatisfying.

Generally students fall in any of the three categories of readers mentioned above. Students who are motor readers, who accompany their reading with different but unnecessary movements of the muscles of articulation, should realise that reading strategy is not confined to the visualization of the printed symbols and words. Also certain students belonging to auditory readers are more dependent on inner speech than actually required. Inner speech occurs to some extent in all readers, students need not depend on it too much before they can respond to meaning.

It is totally acceptable that you can not completely eradicate these reactions along with general physiological mechanism but you can become almost unaware of them. This would help you in eliminating any kind of inefficient habits that adversely affects your comprehension and reading skills. The key lies in consistent practice on instantaneous perception and try to verbalise less and less the visual image that you expose to while reading. For those students who are excessively dependent on inner speech while reading, increasing the speed of your mental responses to visual images by means of perception exercises will be of great help.

It is advisable for the students to read with your eyes only, not with any part of your mouth or vocal apparatus. This will help in gaining complete comprehension, with faster speed and accuracy. Vocalisation is the one inefficient habit of reading that is the quickest to disappear when an inhibiting set of conditions is put into effect. Mind that words can be understood without sounding them out, without whispering them, without even forming them silently with the lips and tongue.