17. A method of teaching reading, said method comprising arranging a plurality of image areas containing selected reading material into a series of vertically spaced apart, horizontally extending lines, each containing a plurality of said image areas in horizontally spaced apart relation within said line, with said reading material lying within said image areas being displayed in a predetermined first type size much smaller than that sized normally for reading by adults from a normal distance, presenting said material to the reader and directing the eyes of the reader to focus and fix upon said matter in said image area, and subsequently along a succession of such image areas in a predetermined sequence of eye movement along said lines, directing the eyes of the reader to repeat said sequence of eye movement across a succession of similar lines lying respectively below the line just read, determining that the reader has fixed upon and understood the contents of the major portion of said image areas, thereafter optically changing the apparent type size of said material within said areas to a substantially enlarged size in relation to said first size, and presenting the content of said image areas to the eyes of the reader in said enlarged size, whereby the content of said image areas appears initially to lie within an area of reduced lateral span, and subsequently appears to lie within an image area of increased angular lateral span.
18. A method as defined in claim 17 which further includes optically changing said apparent type size of said material to another size intermediate said first size and said enlarged size, said intermediate type size being a size which is substantially reduced in relation to type which is sized for normal reading at a normal reading distance, and directing the eyes of the reader through said eye movement sequence while reading said material of said intermediate size after so directing said eyes toward said first size material and before so directing said eyes to said enlarged size material.