Letters are omitted within a word – cause?

Causes of gaps in reading:

If gaps are left when reading, this has the following possible causes:

The reader is strongly attracted to the future text. As a result, the reader’s gaze jumps too far. This creates gaps in the sequence of letters.

Example:

The reader can recognise 4 letters at a glance. He wants to read the word “Masterpiece” and correctly fixates the a in Masterpiece. He can now recognise the sequence of letters “Mast”. As the text on the right (i.e. the future text) has a strong distracting effect on him and he cannot control this completely, his gase jump goese too far when he now moves his eyes and lands on the i in Masterpiece. He simply omits the sequence of letters er in Masterpiece and ends up reading e.g. “Mastpiece”.

Remedy:

The future text must be completely faded out or made paler in order to weaken the distracting stimulus. By successively moving in the faded text, the pupil trains himself to ignore it.