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TYPES OF READERS AND ITS
CHARACTERISTICS ACCORDING TO STAGES
OF READING DEVELOPMENT (CONT.)

1. refine and expand their decoding skills, increase automaticity of word

recognition, increase their rate of reading, increase their vocabulary

T R A N S I T I O N A L knowledge, and increase their level of comprehension

R E A D E R S 2. use sources of information and strategies like checking, predicting, and

confirming, clarifying, self- correct

3. Use familiar part of the words (beginning, middle, end) to a problem-

solve unknown words.

4. LEVEL OF READERS: last until the end of third grade

1. they are comprehending readers and at this stage, they shift

from learning how to read to reading to learn.

2. able to access their background knowledge to gain insight into

and connect with written text.
I N D E P E N D E N T

3. begin to more fully develop their understanding of meanings that
R E A D E R S

are not explicitly stated.

4. exposed to strategies that they can use to increase their

understanding of what they read and they continue to learn new

words that help with comprehension.

5. LEVEL OF READERS: last until the end of ninth grade.

1. able to critically analyze the text they read from different

perspectives and they usually read a vast range of styles and

A D V A N C E D
topics.

R E A D E R S
2. continue to develop their vocabulary and use multiple strategies

to increase comprehension.

3. generally very fluent and efficient in their approach to reading and

they have multiple strategies that they can draw upon to get

meaning from what they read.

4. able to read multiple viewpoints, critically analyze the viewpoints

and information in each of them