The case for slow reading

Here is a recommended journal for articles on reading:
Educational Leadership: reading to learn.
And see this link for the online copy:

http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/mar10/vol67/num06/toc.aspx

This issue includes an article by Thomas Newkirk : The Case for Slow Reading

Reading to Learn Pages 6-11 March 2010 | Volume 67 | Number 6
http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/mar10/vol67/num06/The-Case-for-Slow-Reading.aspx

"Teachers can enhance students' pleasure and success in reading by showing them how to slow down and savor what they read."

In this article, the author suggests some strategies for "slowing down and reclaiming the acoustical properties of written language—for savoring it, for enjoying the infinite ways a sentence can unfold— and for returning to passages that sustain and inspire us. Many of these strategies are literally as old as the hills...."

These strategies include memorisation, reading aloud, attending to beginnings, rethinking time limits on tests, annotating a page, reading poetry, savouring passages...

"Not all our reading, nor all our students' reading, can or should have this depth. We read for various purposes. But some of our reading should have such depth, inefficient as that might be."