Independent Reader

Participation

Phonetic/Decoding/Meaning

Intermediate
Reader

Beginning
Reader

Emergent
Reader

Non-Reader

Student
Student is
Student starts to
participates in
beginning to
Student listens
read English text
group reading of
Student is an
make inferences
to others read
independently.
English
independent reader who
and can retell
English. Student
Student is an
language
enjoys reading English.
stories. Student
is a Non-English
Intermediate
stories. Student
is a Beginning
Reader.
Reader.
is an Emergent
Reader.
Reader.

Student can relate

reading material to own
schema. Finds meaning
in a variety of different
books.

Student can
relate or
respond to
books with
personal
understanding.

Student can
retell a story
with some
understanding.

Student can
retell a
Student may be
predictable
able to repeat
story. Relies on
words or
phonics to
phrases with
decode with
little or no
little
understanding.
understanding
of the meaning.

Reading Strategies

The student is
Student can recognize
The student is
Student needs
beginning to use
different genres and can beginning to use
pictures to find
text print instead
choose different
a variety of
meaning in
of illustrations to
strategies for particular
reading
order to retell a
understand
purposes.
strategies.
story.
reading.

Comprehensive
collections of
pictures are
used to help
student
understand
stories.

Reading Choices

Student is
Students will
The student
primarily an L1
Student can choose
sometimes
needs teachers
reader,
books at the appropriate choose books at
help when
however, trying
reading level.
the appropriate
choosing books. to learn to read
level.
English.

Student is
primarily an L1
reader. Student
cannot read
English.

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