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7/5/2006
According to a July 3, 2006 article from The Associated Press, a recent study funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences shows that mindless reading has a negative effect on comprehension. Mindless reading is what happens when an individual's eyes scan reading material, but the reader is not actually paying attention to the content. The same text might be read and re-read several times without the individual really concentrating on what it says. More research would need to be done to determine what impact, if any, the mindless reading phenomenon might have on younger students. In the meantime, experts hope that educators use the results from the study as an incentive to teach students good reading comprehension strategies.
The article is available at the USA Today Web site.
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