The hypothesis is based on the assumption that a text type is among the readability categories and it influences the effect of reading perspective. Three experiments were carried out. In Exp.1 native speakers of Russian read static texts and a dynamic texts. In Exp.2 reading the texts of different functional styles by Russian and students learning Russian as a foreign language was studied. Exp.3 describes the process of reading a complex and a simple text (in a sense of contained propositions) by children with high level of reading and children with low level of reading. The results of the experiments indicate that the type of a text affects the individual patterns of oculomotor behavior during reading. Analysis of the results revealed differences when reading texts of different functional styles, static and dynamic texts, texts of varying difficulty in a large group of children of primary school age. The overall results of the study show that the influence of the type of text affects the text flow as you getcloser to the "adult rate": the higher the level of development of reading skills, the greater the influence of the factor "text type". Checking the texts by readability formulas revealed correlations with eye tracking data