| Background: An unfortunate habit of many readers is to retrace their steps when reading. This is called backtracking, i.e., your eyes go back to a previous line or an earlier section of the text. This can slow down your reading significantly. Backtracking can become a bad habit. |
Objective: Speedy Simon provides practice for people who want to improve their reading. Speedy Simon provides a fun and graduated way to help you improve how you track when reading. Starting with simple letter and later word tracking, you improve your ability to consistently track words, thereby improving your reading. Speedy Simon is graduated and will be challenging no matter what your reading ability – with levels from a beginning reader right up to the fastest readers anywhere.