Stages of Reading Development

Question 1

4 stages of reading development

Answer 1

1. emergent reader
2. beginning reader
3. fluent reader
4. remedial reader

Question 2

age of emergent reader

Answer 2

early childhood thru pre-K

pre-alphabetic

Question 3

developmental expectation (emergent reader)

Answer 3

• beginning awareness of left to right text progression
• scribble
• recognize clues (like letters in name)

Question 4

reading instruction (emergent reader)

Answer 4

• begin phonemic awareness
• help recognize print in environment
• help make story predictions
• help recognize letter shapes

Question 5

age of beginning reader

Answer 5

K-2nd/3rd grade

alphabetic

Question 6

developmental expectation (beginning reader)

Answer 6

• letters associated with sounds
• CVC words
• rhyme and blend words

Question 7

reading instruction (beginning reader)

Answer 7

• systematic and explicit instruction
• phonics, phonemic awareness, blending, decoding
• vocabulary and spelling skills
• comprehension
• listening and writing

Question 8

age of fluent reader

Answer 8

4th-8th grade

orthographic

Question 9

developmental expectation (fluent reader)

Answer 9

• read larger units of print
• use analogy to decode words
• stress on reading, accuracy, and speed

Question 10

reading instruction (fluent reader)

Answer 10

• systematic and explicit instruction
• multisyllabic words
• decoding
• spelling and vocabulary
• fluency
• comprehension and context skills
• metacognition

Question 11

age range of remedial reader

Answer 11

3rd-8th grade

Question 12

working with remedial readers

Answer 12

• preventative approach more successful than remedial
• struggling readers taught with same systematic framework
• reteach modalities of “beginning reader” and emphasize assessment to i.d. reading weakness, teach explicit strategies based on diagnosis, link instruction to prior knowledge, increase instruction time, divide skills into smaller steps and provide reinforcement/positive feedback