Reading At Different Ages

Question 1

Chall 1983

Stage 0
Pseudo reading pre reading 6months to 6yrs

Answer 1

Understand more than they articulate
Pretend to read
Retell stories looking at book that were previously read to them

Providing books
Reading to the child
Dialogic reading

Question 2

Chall 1983

Stage 1
Initial reading and decoding
6-7yrs

Answer 2

Read familiar words
Understand the relationship between letters and sounds and spoken words and printed words
Can read only 600 words understand 4000

i+1
High frequency words
Direct instructions and practice

Question 3

Chall 1983

Confirming and fluency
7-8yrs

Answer 3

Read familiar words and becomes fluent in reading
Listening is still more effective at this stage that reading
Understand 9000 words but reads only 3000

Direct instructions
i+1
Providing activities with advanced decoding

Question 4

Chall 1983

Stage 3
Reading and new learning
9-14yrs

Answer 4

Learns new ideas, experiences, feelings, And new knowledge

At the beginning of the stage listening is more comprehensive but at the end reading is more comprehensive

Complex reading materials
Reading and studying text books reference books
With unfamiliar vos and syntax

Question 5

Stage 4

Reading at multiple viewpoints
15-17

Answer 5

Difficult texts are read complex material
Reading comprehension is better than listening comprehension

Wide reading
Studying biology, social sciences, humanities
Studying words and word parts

Question 6

Stage 5

Construction and reconstruction
18 and beyond

Answer 6

Reading for one’s won purpose

Reading is more efficient than listening

Integrates on’s knowledge with someone else’s

Difficult material
Graphic organizers
Context cues

Question 7

Why do we need a stage model

Answer 7

• has implications to individualization of instructions
• to determine what sort of reading materials to give to learners of different ages
• child who had not acquired voc in stage 3 will have problems in stage 5

Therefore the learners need special instructions