Self-Correcting While Reading

Phonics & Word Reading // Ages 4 to 7

Need basic reading ability to self-monitor

Grammar & Punctuation // Ages 4 to 6

Sense-checking uses sentence knowledge

Learning to Learn // Learning to Learn // Ages 6 to 7

Checking that a text makes sense while reading and self-correcting is the reading-domain form of the universal comprehension-monitoring habit

English Thinking // Ages 6 to 8

Self-correcting while reading requires the awareness that decoding correctly is not the same as understanding

Phonics & Word Reading // Ages 6 to 10

Reading comprehension monitoring builds on earlier fluency skills

Reading Comprehension // Ages 7 to 10

Inferring and justifying inferences with text evidence requires the metacognitive habit of checking that the text makes sense as you read — a reader who doesn't self-monitor will miss the cues on which inference depends

Reading Comprehension // Ages 7 to 10

Retrieving and summarising main ideas from multi-paragraph texts requires active self-monitoring comprehension — noticing when something doesn't make sense and re-reading to fix it