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Early Reading Behaviors

Text Levels 1-4, or A-C
  • Points word by word, matching voice to print
  • Relies on background knowledge and meaning and structure cues to read text
  • Relies primarily on illustrations to create meaning before print
  • Uses text language patterns to support reading
  • Locates familiar and new words
  • Uses beginning letters to articulate first letter sound in unknowns words
  • Responds to changes in sentence patterns
  • Self-monitors (one on one word matching, errors in meaning;/structure)
  • Self-corrects on own when words are incorrectly read
  • Uses period when reading
  • Reads familiar text fluently
  • Comprehends text (retells story and makes connections)