Topic: Speeds of Reading Silently and Aloud

Question: What is the relationship between speed of reading aloud and reading silently?

10-second review: "It is of interest to note that the rates of 250-300 words per minute...as more-or-less 'maximal' rates for silent reading, correspond closely to the fastest rates at which trained readers can read aloud."

Source: TG Sticht in Understanding Reading Comprehension. J Flood, ed. Newark, DE, 1984, p. 150.

Comment: Seems to imply that the way students read aloud is the way they read silently. I would suggest that students who do not read aloud well, halting, stumbling, etc., be given training in fluency. Teacher and student read aloud together. Students re-read the same short piece of material repeatedly until they can read it smoothly and effortlessly and with expression. RayS.