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Characteristics of Early/Developing
In the early/developing stage of reading development, the student will display many of the following behaviors:
- Have good control of early reading strategies (directionality, one to one word matching, locating known words)
- Rely less on pictures and use more information from print
- Begin to build a core of high-frequency words known automatically
- Read familiar text with some phrasing and fluency
- Start to attend to punctuation while reading
- Read using more than one source of information
- Begin to monitor own reading and self correct
- Use phonetic clues to decode (initial- final sounds, simple chunks)
- Begin to engage in discussions about what is read
The above information was graciously obtained from North Merrick Literacy Center Web Site courtesy of
Mrs. Grossman and Mrs. Macko.
