independent reading
Reading without help
Independent reading is reading done by choice, outside of assigned or guided instruction.
In educational contexts, it refers to time when students select their own books and read at their own pace: The classroom schedule includes thirty minutes of independent reading.
The term emphasizes self-direction—readers choose what interests them rather than following a curriculum.
- soloPerformance by one
- silentProducing no sound
- libraryBook collection or building
- bookwormVoracious reader
- absorbedTook in fully
lost in a book · pages · curled · quiet · leisurely · self-paced · chapter · engrossed · personal · uninterrupted · browse · fluency · choice · pleasure · immersed · page turner · cozy · curled up
- gifted readingcomprehension, vocabulary, literary analysis, enrichment, acceleration
- readingfluency, read, comprehension, books, decoding
- reading skillsvocabulary, literacy skills, decoding, grammar, fluency
- reading educationliteracy, vocabulary, spelling, phonics, comprehension
- reading assessmentcomprehension test, diagnostic test, benchmark test, fluency, decoding
- early readersprimers, early literacy, Dick and Jane, phonics books, phonics
independent readingshared reading
Joint literary experience
group instruction · read-aloud · buddy reading · reading groups · reading circles
independent readingguided reading
Instructional reading with teacher support
independent, reading, independence, independently, dependence, dependent, depend, dependently, interdependent