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Accelerating Student Learning: Monitoring Reading

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Qualitative Features of Good Reading

5. Possesses prediction-orientation
• seems to look ahead when reading
• reads at a sentence or paragraph level
6. Self-monitors what she/he is reading.
• Self-corrects if makes meaning distortion errors
7. Makes only meaning preservation errors.
• more errors that preserve meaning (e.g., "house" for "home")
• fewer meaning distortion errors (e.g., "mouse" for "house.")
8. Automaticity on reread words.
• words that appear throughout text are read automatically (e.g., become "sight words")