The fourth component: Independent Reading DEAR
1. Independent Reading
a. Children read on their own or with partners from a wide range of materials. The children have been taught how to choose books they can read with understanding and fluency without teacher support.
- Provides opportunity to apply reading strategies independently
- Provides time to sustain reading behavior
- Challenges the reader to work on his/her own and to use strategies on a variety of texts.
- Challenges the reader to solve words independently while reading texts well within his/her control.
- Promotes fluency through reading
- Builds confidence through sustained, successful reading
- Provides the opportunity for children to support each other while reading
a. Children read on their own or with partners from a wide range of materials. The children have been taught how to choose books they can read with understanding and fluency without teacher support.
- Provides opportunity to apply reading strategies independently
- Provides time to sustain reading behavior
- Challenges the reader to work on his/her own and to use strategies on a variety of texts.
- Challenges the reader to solve words independently while reading texts well within his/her control.
- Promotes fluency through reading
- Builds confidence through sustained, successful reading
- Provides the opportunity for children to support each other while reading