Learn About Reading Skills that are Rarely Taught

There’s a part of the reading process that most of us were never taught to look for. Start here to learn about reading skills that matters to your students.

Most reading instruction focuses on decoding, language, and comprehension. Important as those are, they don’t account for everything you see in struggling readers. Research increasingly points to reading efficiency and the visual system as an overlooked contributor. Learn what that means and how to recognize it in your own students.

The Hidden Reason Many Students Struggle with Reading

Research shows that inefficient reading and underdeveloped visual skills affect more students than most educators realize. Learn how to identify and address them—within your existing literacy program.

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Why Reading Efficiency Matters

70% of students with low reading achievement are inefficient readers. Even 30% of students reading at grade level carry inefficient habits that will limit them as academic demands increase.

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What are Visual Skills – and Why Screen for Them?

50% of low-performing elementary students — and 25% of low-performing middle schoolers — have underdeveloped visual skills that standard eye exams don’t screen.

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How Students Describe Visual Skills Issues

From headaches when reading to repeatedly losing their place, students using Nimble Reading’s Visual Skills Insight screener tell us what they experience.

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The Visual System and Reading

We use more than a dozen visual skills when reading. Learn about three groups of skills: Visual Acuity, Eye-Movement Control and Vergence-Binocularity, and Visual Processing.

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