Types+of+Readers

=Types of Readers = (Tompkins, 2006, 91)  =Emergent = Students at this level will:
 * use of pictures and memorable patterns to help retell the story
 * can reread familiar books
 * 5-20 High frequency words can be noticed
 * text-to-self connections
 * pretends to read
 * Notices environmental print (being print that can be found all around them)
 * Shows an interest in books

=Beginning = Students at this level will:
 * self correct
 * read orally, however, it will be slow (word by word pace)
 * Find written words that match with spoken words
 * 20-100 high frequency words recognizable
 * Decodes words
 * makes predictions (that make sense)
 * Text-to-self and text- to world connections

=Fluent = Students at this level will:
 * Make inferences
 * reading rate of 100 words per minute
 * identify most words automatically
 * uses the cueing system to decode unfamiliar words
 * can read with expression
 * reading independently
 * 100-300 high frequency words are recognizable
 * text-to-self, text-to-world and text-to-text connections