Self-Correcting While Reading
Check that text makes sense while reading and self-correct inaccurate reading by re-reading or using context
Typical age: 5–11 years
“When your child is reading and something doesn't quite make sense, do they go back and re-read that part — or use the surrounding words to work out what a tricky word or sentence means?”
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Needs first
- Monitoring Comprehension
Self-correcting while reading requires the awareness that decoding correctly is not the same as understanding
- Blending Sounds to Read WordsREQUIRED
Need basic reading ability to self-monitor
- Feeling of not understanding
Checking that a text makes sense while reading and self-correcting is the reading-domain form of the universal comprehension-monitoring habit
- Building sentences
Sense-checking uses sentence knowledge
- Reading with Expression and Accuracy
Reading comprehension monitoring builds on earlier fluency skills
Unlocks next
- Main Ideas & Note-Taking
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
- Inferring Characters' Feelings and Motives
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