Reading--with a bit of skimming

A Facebook group is an ideal platform to share links. This example is sharing a reading test. My students often use the strategy of reading and translationg texts sentence by sentence, which makes the process of reading extremely slow and I have the feeling they will never ben able to read really...
So I find online speed readers quite helpful (http://www.zapreader.com/reader/, http://spreeder.com , eyercize.com) which allow you to copy any text and set the reading speed then read it at a given speed. If this speed is fast  enough, students will have no tome to "translate" everything word by word or sentence by sentence.
In this task ask your students to copy the text of the reading test itself in the speed reader (http://www.zapreader.com/reader/) and read it at a given speed (300wpm, they can set on the page) before they actually do the reading task.

http://www.examenglish.com/PET/pet_reading4.html
http://www.zapreader.com/reader/