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Proficient
Readers
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Ineffective
Readers
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Before Reading
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- Understand that
reading is a process to make meaning.
- Build up their
background knowledge on the subject before they begin to read.
- Use their background
knowledge as they read.
- Know their purpose for
reading.
- Strive for fluency
(conversational-like reading).
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- Think of reading only
as decoding--one word at a time.
- Do not expect reading
to make sense.
- Start reading without
thinking about the topic, the language, or the structure of the text.
- Do not know why they
are reading.
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During Reading
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- Give their complete
attention to the reading task.
- Keep a constant check
on their own understanding.
- Adjust their reading
rate to match purpose and reading material.
- Monitor their reading
comprehension and do it so often it becomes automatic.
- Can match their
reading strategies to a variety of reading materials.
- Stop only to use a
fix-up strategy when they do not understand.
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- Do not know whether
they understand or do not understand.
- Do not understand the
concept of varying reading rates.
- Do not monitor their own comprehension.
- Lose their place
often.
- Seldom use any of the
fix-up strategies.
- They do not
self-monitor: Asking does what I just read make sense, sound right, and
look right?
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After Reading
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- Decide if they have achieved
their goal for reading.
- Respond personally and
critically to what they read by making connections text/self; text/text;
or text/real world.
- Evaluate their own
comprehension of what they read.
- Summarize the major
ideas.
- Seek additional
information from outside sources.
- Ask questions.
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- Do not know what they
have read.
- Are unable to respond
critically to what they have read, although they may have a limited
personal response.
- Do not follow reading
with comprehension self-check.
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