During Reading Strategies 1. Successful independent reading involves integrating three sets of cues.
Efficient readers use all three to predict, confirm and self correct as they read.
They also use the context of the sentence, the paragraph or the whole text to figure out what the text is about, and what would make sense. Volunteers can help young readers use these cues by modeling and encouraging them to ask themselves questions as they read. Gradually, after you have provided a lot of this kind of model questioning, you can encourage students to ask these kinds of questions of themselves as they read. Who is Stuck or has Miscued Beginning readers often substitute their own words for those in print. While we want readers to eventually become accurate readers, that should not be the primary goal.