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EASY BOOKS
* you can read the words fluently (smoothly and with an interesting voice)
*there are not many words on a page
*you know how to read all the words
*there are not a lot of pages in the book
*you have a lot of schema for the subject
(you know a lot about it)*sometimes the book has a larger font
*you understand the story completely
*your reading rate may be quicker
*your thinking comes easily as you read the words
CHALLENGING BOOKS
*many of the words are too hard to decode (failed a five finger test)
*you don't know what the tricky words MEAN
*your reading becomes choppy more than it is fluent
*you don't have any prior knowledge the subject
*there are often a lot of words on the page
*often the font is small
*you lose focus as you are reading
*you are not enjoying the book because you have to do too much word work
*your thinking is confused
*your reading rate slows way down
JUST RIGHT BOOKS
*you can read most of the words
*you can understand what you are reading
*you enjoy the book
*you may have some schema for the subject
*you can read the book fluently, but there are some choppy places
*your reading rate is just right- not too slow and not too fast
*you can figure out the tricky words and still get the meaning of the story