This document provides instructions for calculating reading rate through silent or oral reading. It outlines the materials and steps needed, which include counting words per line and lines per page to determine words per page, timing reading to get pages and words read, and using the formula of words read divided by minutes to calculate words per minute reading rate. An example calculation is provided. Finally, common reading rate ranges are given to categorize readers as slow, oral, auditory, or visual based on their words per minute score.

1. Prepared by:
Jahlen M. Tuvilleja
II - BLIS

2. OBJECTIVES
To know how to calculate
reading rate
To know your Reading profile

3. Reading rate
is one of the most
commonly used
measures of literacy
skill attainment.

4. Two Types of Reading
Frequently Measured:
1.Oral Reading
2.Silent Reading

6. Materials needed
reading material
Timer/stopwatch
Paper & pen

7. Procedure
1. Count the number of words in
three lines and divide by three.
(WPL = Words Per Line)
2. Count the number of lines on
a page. (LPP = Lines Per
Page)

8. Procedure
3. Multiply the WPL by the LPP.
(WPP = Words Per Page)
4. Once start to read, record
your minutes/time spent in
reading and the number of
pages read.

9. Procedure
5. Multiply the number of pages
read by the WPP. This will be
the Total number of Words.
6. Divide the number of minutes
you read into the Total
number of Words. (WPM =
Words Per Minute)

10. Example
WPP = 12
LPP = 10
WPP = 12 x 10 120 WPP
4 pages x 120WPP = 480 words
480 words / 4 minutes = 120 WPM

11. Reading Profiles
110 WPM = slow reader
240 WPM = oral reader
400 WPM = auditory reader
1000 WPM= visual reader