Overview
Proficient readers use a balance of cues and strategies to gain meaning from print.
Observing a child read orally is a way of measuring fluency, rate, accuracy, and the use of reading strategies to discover what may be hampering a child's reading progress.
Competent readers:
- make predictions about text· use picture cues to support the meaning
- use language structure to predict the text· use the visual feature of print
- monitor by rereading
- cross-check one cue source with another
- self-correct when cues do not match
- link personal experiences with the text
- use appropriate strategies to read different text structures
- read fluently, with expression
- can retell what they've read
In an effective balanced literacy program, teachers use oral reading records to:
- create a reading profile for each child.
- support at-risk readers.
- monitor reading growth over time.
- analyze the cues, strategies, and information sources a child uses.
- observe whether a child self-monitors and self-corrects during reading.
- check for comprehension during reading.
- observe the fluency of reading.
- select text at the child's instructional level.
- group students for guided reading.
- provide appropriate instruction, based on the strengths and needs of the child.
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