Fix-Up Strategies

1. Check your own inner voice. 

Your mind is working all the time, whether you are paying attention to it or not.  Noticing your own thinking is called METACOGNITION.

Follow this link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fv-sKP17xTw

When you are reading, you can control your thoughts so that you are having a conversation with the text.  This is called a CONVERSATIONAL VOICE and is USEFUL. 

We all have times when we are "reading,"  but really our thoughts are wandering to other subjects.  This voice within your head, when you really should be reading, is called a WASTE-OF-TIME VOICE.
The best solution for the WASTE-OF-TIME VOICE is to gently bring you focus back to the reading material.  Tell yourself that you'll think about that other subject later. 

Go on to the Fix-Up Strategies.

1. If you didn't get it the first time, focus on it, and read it again.