Content: Skills Readers Use

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Mental

  • Accessing vocabulary
  • Connecting experiences to word meanings
  • Language comprehension – understanding words

Visual

  • Moving eyes in the right direction across a page
  • Noticing spaces between letters and words
  • Recognizing letter- and word-shapes

Auditory

  • Listening to other readers
  • Knowing the sounds letters and letter combinations make

Oral

  • Reading aloud
  • Adding expression to reading
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