Stage Descriptive Title Age Range Description

Stage 3 Reading for (Age 9-13, • Readers have mastered the code and
Learning the New Grades 4- find it easy to sound out unfamiliar
Stage Second Year) words and read with fluency.
• Ready to begin the study of subject
matter.
• Can bring prior knowledge to their
reading.
• Readers must use reading as a tool for
acquiring new knowledge.

Stage 4 Multiple View- ( High School; • Readers are instructed in reading.

points Stage ages 14-18) • Grows the ability to analyze what
they read and can react critically.
 Stage Descriptive Age Range Description
Title

• Readers are able to deal with facts and

concepts and have the ability to add and
delete schema.
Stage 5 Constructio ( College; • Adults are taught literacy that stresses
n and Ages 18 acquisition of skills useful to them and the
Reconstruc and up) ability to apply those skills.
tion stage • Readers know what not to read, as well as
what to read.
• now have the ability to synthesize critically
the works of others and are able to form their
own.
STAGES OF THE READING PROCES
(Flynt, Cooter, 2007)
Stages of the Reading Process
Stage 1: Making early
Connections- Describing
pictures
Stage 2: Forming a Story by
Connecting Pictures
Stage 3: Transitional Picture
Reading
Stage 4: Advance Picture
Reading
Description
Characteristics of a child in this stage:
1. Able to describe pictures in books
2. Sense of story is limited
3. Able to follow verbal directions
4. Oral vocabulary
5. Attention span is appropriate for grade level or age
6. Responds appropriately to questions
1. Able to describe an oral story based on pictures on several pages in a book
2. Only able to use childlike, or “storyteller”, to tell the story
The child is still only able to tell stories based on pictures but
1. Able to understand how the pictures connect to the story
2. Beginning to mix story teller language with book language
The child has finally grasped the difference between storytelling and book
language
1. Able to describe an oral story based on pictures on several pages in the book
2. Able to tell a story using book language
Stage of the Reading Process
Stage 5: Early Print Reading
Stage 6: Early strategic Reading
Stage 7: Moderate Strategic Reading
Description
A child at this level is beginning to understand the
purpose of print and can read it.
1. Able to tell story using pictures
2. Understands that print moves from left to right
and from top to bottom
The child is capable of reading but might make some
miscues when reading material.
1. Uses context clues to guess unknown words and
the guesses make sense
2. Recognizes beginning sound in words and is able
to use them to guess unknown words.
1. Use context clues and word parts to decode
unknown words
2. Self correct when making miscues
3. Able to retell the story
4. Shows a understanding of vowel sound