Scan for information
Do not read everything; find
what matters.
Before time runs out, scan the structure and key signals. Answer the detail question after the text closes.
You have 18 seconds.
Watch for numbers, dates, cause and effect, and contrast words.
Text scanning exercise
Use numbers, cause and effect, and contrast signals to locate needed information.
What might this practice support?
This exercise may support noticing and deliberately practising its target reading behaviour. By itself, it does not demonstrate lasting improvement or transfer to other texts.
How should it be used?
Begin at a comfortable level and progress only while the task remains accurate and understandable. Reduce pace or difficulty when meaning or comfort declines.
What does this exercise not guarantee?
One round cannot guarantee a lasting increase in reading speed, a wider anatomical field of view or the same result for every text. Compare it with comprehension measured in real passages.