What We Can Do When Students “Skim Read”

What We Can Do When Students “Skim Read” By Holly Durham Walk into almost any middle or high school classroom and you’ll see a familiar scene. A student is asked to read silently. By the third sentence, their attention has already begun to drift. Their eyes move, but not always in order. They skip lines, glance up, look back down, and eventually arrive at the end of the paragraph. When asked what the paragraph means, they aren’t sure. In another classroom, students are asked to analyze a...