ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on two observable aspects of reading processes: that readers will omit or substitute words when reading aloud and that readers will skip over words visually while reading. The first is researchable through miscue analysis, the second through eye-movement analysis. The chapter combines the two types of analyses to examine what readers are looking at while they make oral reading omissions or substitutions. Intuitively, the two phenomena should intersect; the words that readers visually skip should be the ones that are orally omitted or substituted. It reports the results of a research study that explores this assumption. A miscue analysis explanation would include the awkward syntactic construction of the lengthy prepositional phrase that, instead of following the verb fell as a reader might expect, is instead found at the beginning of the subordinate clause.
