Reading strips serve the dual purpose of keeping students focused on a single line of text and reducing the visual contrast of black letters on white paper which gives some students headaches. They are worth trying, realizing that some students do not find them helpful and it can slow down their reading.
Best-suited for students with weaker: Attention, Inhibition, Self-Regulation, Long-Term Memory, Short-Term Memory, Visual Processing, Working Memory (Source: Digital Promise Learner Variability Project)