All

The answer to this question might be embedded in some of the earlier posts,
but I'd like to learn more about how it is that reading aloud ("sounding
good" - I think someone said) is and isn't useful as an indicator of reading
abilities.

My understanding is that people who can read aloud fairly well are decent
decoders.  They can wrest sound out of symbol.  This, however, is not the
same as making meaning out of what's been read.  (I know that when I read
something aloud, I can't always remember or even make sense of what I'm
reading).

We tend to use reading aloud as a way of 'seeing' what learners can do ‹ but
it seems to me that this gives us a very incomplete picture.

Janet Isserlis
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