[blindkid] reading rates

Carol Castellano carol_castellano at verizon.net
Thu Mar 22 16:52:42 UTC 2012


Do you know which level people like Johns are referring to when they 
give a reading range for each grade?
Carol

At 11:52 AM 3/22/2012, you wrote:
>Hi, I've been off list for a while so missed the thread, but I can answer
>your question. When I determine reading speed for myself I tend to take 3
>different texts I've not ever seen and do 1 minute times. I then average the
>3 together. In school or when I'm tutoring children I do a leisure timing
>with a text they are comfortable with and are reading for fun that they have
>never seen before. I have them read for 3 minutes, and I go average the 3
>scores. This is also known as their independent level. I then do an
>instructional level. This is the child's grade level text such as a history
>grade level text that may be a bit challenging but not frustrating. I do the
>same 3 1 minute times and average the scores. For goal setting purposes I
>will often also take text either for leisure or school that is slightly
>above their level and get times the same way.
>
>I read around 140 words a minute when it is tougher text, and between 150
>and 200 words per minute on something fun that is pretty easy. Most text
>written for leisure such as novels and such are written around the eighth
>grade reading level.
>
>I was not made to read enough Braille in school and there for always
>averaged around 80-110 words a minute, but once I began singing in my church
>choir this didn't work. I couldn't keep up. I needed to keep up so I started
>reading daily. Once I did this my speed rapidly increased. I now read daily
>even if it is only a Daily bread devotion that takes 10 minutes or so I read
>every day. I find when I don't my speed rapidly decreases. I've read as fast
>as 200 words a minute on simpler text in the past.
>
>Hope that helps some.
>
>
>Bran
>
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>a spark."
>- Victor Hugo
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: blindkid-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindkid-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>Behalf Of Carol Castellano
>Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2012 11:22 AM
>To: blindkid at nfbnet.org
>Subject: [blindkid] reading rates
>
>Arielle, Heather, Dave, and any other Braille readers out there,
>
>You gave your own reading rates.  What sort of material did you use to
>measure this?  Did you do a 5-minute test?  Or did you simply time yourself
>reading an article or something like that?  As I read more and more about
>this issue and reading rates in general, I see that there are many ways to
>measure.  For example, if a person is reading for pleasure the rate will be
>faster than if he/she is reading to learn something.
>
>Thanks,
>Carol
>
>Carol Castellano
>President, Parents of Blind Children-NJ
>Director of Programs
>National Organization of Parents of Blind Children
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Carol Castellano
President, Parents of Blind Children-NJ
Director of Programs
National Organization of Parents of Blind Children
973-377-0976
carol_castellano at verizon.net
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