Reading Volume

Arlington (2009) purports "Struggling readers need to read a lot because it is during the actual reading that they can practice all those complicated strategies and skills" (p. 64). Torgeson & Hudson (2006) concur through their research it is not that teaching strategies and word recognition are not important but this will not necessarily guarantee a student will read better. These authors agree that "The only way to do this is to design interventions such that struggling readers engage in lots of text reading" (p. 64, 2009).