What is Visual Tracking and How Can it Improve Reading?
Many students have difficulties reading text from left to right and from line to line. Although some outgrow this difficulty, other's need extra help to develop this skill. What Exactly is Tracking? Tracking is the ability to move one's eyes smoothly across the page and from one line of text to another. Problems can arise such as eye fatigue, word omissions, reversals, losing one's place while reading and most importantly these difficulties can negatively impact reading comprehension. Tracking can be improved by strengthening eye muscles as well as getting the eyes and brain to work together. There are three eye movements that need to be developed: Fixations : ability to hold one's eyes steady without moving off a target. Pursuits : ability to follow a moving target with one's eyes. Saccades : ability to jump to new targets that randomly disappear and reappear in a different location. 10 Free Tracking Exercises: Use colored overlays to read books to ...