Developmental Reading Stages
Read the following definitions to better understand how children develop reading skills.
Emergent Reader
- knows that the text goes from left to right
- can distinguish between lower case and upper case letters
- can blend phonemes (letter sounds)
- uses pictures for clues
- retells a simple story which is read to them
- recalls some details
- knows names of letters
- identifies consonant sounds at beginning and end of words
- understands the difference between letters and words
- notices and read environmental print
- reads one word at a time - choppy
- selects simple repetitious books
- reads favorite books over and over
- sustained reading 5 - 10 minutes
- has the desire to be a fluent reader
- enjoys retelling stories
- makes predictions and tells why
Early Reader
- sequences events in story
- tells main idea
- makes predictions
- identifies main characters
- identifies setting
- differentiates between fact and fiction
- identifies high frequency words
- awareness of medial vowel sounds
- context clues
- to self correct
- the meaning of . ? !
- and uses appropriate inflection for punctuation
- phrases
- a variety of books
- sustained reading 10 - 15 minutes
- to feel confident when reading silently or orally
Fluent Reader
- plot of story
- problem and solution in a story
- character's actions or behaviors
- a variety of clues to decode unfamiliar words
- blends, digraphs, dipthongs
- vowel rules to sound out words
- prefixes and suffixes
- punctuations correctly
- with expression
- smoothly
- a wide variety of books
- select chapter books
- sustained reading at least 20 minutes
- enjoys sharing favorite books
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