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Reading Speed
Fluency Development
Oral & Silent Reading
Becoming a Strategic Reader
Active Engagement
100
Around 300 words per minute
What is the physiological limit on reading speed? (where reading involves fixating on most of the words in the text)
100
Is turning the written form of a word into a familiar spoken form with known meaning.
What is Decoding?
100
It has not been looked on very favorably in the L2 classroom but it is a very important step used in the L1 classroom towards gaining fluent decoding and comprehension skills. It is a preparation for fluent silent reading.
What is Reading Aloud?
100
Is a strategy that has become automatic.
What is a skill?
100
They read selectively according to goals
What is a strategy used by engaged readers?
200
the purpose of the reading and the difficulty of the text.
What are factors that affect reading speed?
200
It involves not just becoming faster; it also involves changing the size and nature of the basic unit that the reader is working with. In other words; it develops when complex activities like reading are made less complex by mastery of some of the sub skills involved in the activity.
What is fluency and/or fluency development?
200
The learner reads a text aloud, with help where necessary, while the teacher or another learner listens. the the text is read again a day later. The text should only be a little bit above the learner's present level.
What is Repeated Reading?
200
Cognitive processes that are open to conscious reflection but that may be on their way to becoming skills.
What are Strategies?
200
check their understanding, form mental summaries of main ideas, resolve difficulties, reflect on the information in the text and integrate the text information with long-term memory
What is done after reading by a good reader?
300
250 words per minute.
What is a reasonable wpm goal for second language learners reading familiar material?
300
Involves learners working in pairs and one member of the par speaking on a familiar topic to the other (the listener) for four minutes. Then they change partners
What is 4/3/2 Reading?
300
Involves searching for a particular piece of information in a text, such as looking for a particular name or a particular number.
What is Scanning?
300
It refers to the knowledge and control that we have over our cognitive processes. It involves awareness and control of planning, monitoring, repairing, revising, summarizing and evaluating of our comprehension.
What is Metacognition?
300
Good readers make a reading plan before reading, they know why they are reading, they preview the text, activate prior knowledge and form predicitions about the text.
What is a good reader according to Pressley (2002a, 2002b) & Pressley & Afflerbach (1995)?
400
1) fixating on units smaller that a world (word parts, letters, parts of letters). 2) spending a long time on each fixation and 3) making many regressions to look back at what has already been read.
What are the physical symptoms of slow reading?
400
it is called the "rich and varied map". The learners do things which differ slightly from each other but which draw on the same kind of knowledge. Example: Easy Extensive Reading activities.
What is the second path to fluency?
400
Research as shown that increasing reading speed in one language can result in increases in another known language. it is likely that there is a transfer of confidence. The confidence that you can read faster and still comprehend.
What are some of the advantages of reading faster?
400
Aside from building efficiency in strategic processing this readers know when, how and why to use strategies effectively and recognize appropriate contexts for using effective strategies.
What is a Strategic Reader?
400
The fluent application of combinations of strategies to achieve active comprehension. The routinization of strategic processes and metacognitive awareness.
What is a second part of what makes an effective good reader?
500
Around 150 words per minute for oral reading and 250 wpm for silent reading. Skimming speed is around 500 wpm.
What are good reading speeds?
500
Three types of action are involved: fixations, saccades and regressions. The eyes do not move smoothly along a line of print, but jump from one word to another.
What happens when people read?
500
By using strategies like: One minute reading, reading logs and speed reading graphs
How can Progress in Reading fluency be monitored?
500
A comprehension approach to reading that promotes multiple strategy use along with content instruction from texts. Approach is organized around four stages: immersion, wide reading, reading-strategy instruction & project work to demonstrate what students have learned.
What is CORI?
500
Combines a focus on reading comprehension, strategies instruction and content learning. Uses discussion, centered on text comprehension and comprehension monitoring, as a regular feature of instruction Combines multiple strategies in flexible combinations in strategy instruction
What are instructional guidelines to support instructional approach to reading comprehension and strategic reading?