For competent readers, subvocalizing to some extent even at scanning rates is normal.

A competent reader regains the total message of a competent writer.

As competent, adult readers we are sometimes aware that something we are reading is having a considerable effect upon us.

As a competent reader you may find it difficult to read aloud.

Modern approaches to supporting the learner-reader lay emphasis on an 'apprenticeship' approach where the learner is in partnership with a competent reader.

The competent reader can be an adult or another, more skilled, child.

The skills used by competent readers - guessing, skipping, and skimming - are employed.

Children can become competent readers and writers without being trained, pushed, or goaded into literacy learning in early childhood.

The approach, they say, often forsakes phonics, grammar and the drill-and-practice many children need to become competent readers and writers.

They're either competent readers, or they aren't.