Recognizing several letters at once
This chapter focuses on practicing the simultaneous recognition of several letters. As an overall goal and prerequisite for fluent reading, the learner should be able to recognize at least three to four letters in approximately 250–300 ms and pronounce them immediately. Practicing longer words has a positive effect on reading performance.
Recognition after a saccade
The “saccade” exercise also involves recognition at a glance, but after a saccade:
The fixation mark appears, and to the right of it are the letter segments that are to be recognized.
In “Eye movement variant b,” word segments appear as the fixation point, and the letter sequence to be recognized appears to the right of them.