4 - Fluent Competence at Reading Simple Texts
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General description:

• Learner is able to read a simple 2-3 paragraph passage within a mostly familiar, mostly predictable context of daily life and experience: simple narrative, bibliographical or descriptive prose, set of instructions.
• Often requires re-reading and clarification.
• Begins to tolerate some ambiguity, e.g. very small gaps in the text (unknown words, phrases). May occasionally successfully reconstruct the missing element without a dictionary when the text relates to the learner's personal experience and the sentence and discourse structure are simple.
• Unfamiliar words in unpredictable contexts are usually impossible to guess the learner still uses a bilingual dictionary compulsively.
• Reads in English for information, to learn the language and to develop reading skills.
• Can read some authentic texts of factual nature, usually with difficulty; short news items with literal language and little "journalese" idiom, classified ads, sales promotion coupons and flyers.
• Can find specific, more complex information in text by scanning.
• Can read silently for meaning, with little visible or audible vocalization efforts; reads slowly.

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