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Accelerating Student Learning: Monitoring Reading

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Qualitative Features of Good Reading

1. Is highly fluent (speed and accuracy)
2. Uses effective strategies to decode words.
• effective word attack
• context
3. Adjust pacing (i.e., slows down and speeds up according to level of text difficulty)
• of word(s)
• syntax (word order)
• semantics (word meaning)
4. Attends to prosodic features.
• inflection (pause, voice goes up and down)
• reads with expression
• punctuation (commas, exclamation points, etc.
• predicts level of expression according to syntax