Literacy Lingo
An assessment that determines a student's independent, instructional, and frustration reading levels.
Running Record
How a student reads a text with automaticity (accuracy and speed) and prosody, or expression
Fluency
Notes from the field -
What lesson did the teacher learn?
The need to balance genres in read-alouds
These are essential for develop reading skills and strategies, and for modeling a positive view of reading.
Read-alouds
What does "DRTA" stand for?
Directed Reading-Thinking Actvity
Different spelling and meaning, but pronounced the same
Homophone (homonym)
This activity helps students who are struggling with reading complex multisyllabic words accurately. This often occurs in the upper elementary grades.
The induced imagery procedure can be used to support which strategy?
Visualizing
These should be a student-centered way to further develop literacy skills. It includes the following components: confirming, modeling, and connecting.
Interactive Read-alouds
What procedure can be used with students who are struggling with comprehension and need support with the strategy of questioning?
ReQuest (Reciprocal Questioning)
Series of short tests designed to evaluate literacy skills among students in kindergarten through 8th grade, including phonemic awareness, alphabetic principle, accuracy, fluency, and comprehension.
DIBELS (Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills)
These are reading assessments that have words from the passage removed and replaced with a blank line.
Cloze With Arrows
Making predictions and inferences using clues from the text is an example of a
Skill
During daily reading, at which step does the teacher model how to implement the skill or strategy. This will allow the students to see how they should apply the skill or strategy.
During reading
What does "GRIP" stand for?
Generative-Reciprocal Inference Procedure
The most common vowel sound in the English language. It sounds like the short u or sometimes short i vowel sound. Any of the vowels can present the schwa sound, even some vowel pairs.
Schwa
This type of activity teaches students how to analyze the parts of a word, including affixes (prefixes and suffixes) and the root word, which can support vocabulary development.
Word Analysis Activities
Interactive read-alouds should be more interactive and student-centered by including the following 3 components?
Confirming, modeling, and connecting
During daily reading, at which step does the teacher introduce the lesson objectives to the students using kid-friendly language. The teacher engages the students in a discussion that allows them to make connections with the literacy lesson and their own experiences.
Before reading
What are the phases of Reciprocal Teaching?
Prediction Phase
Questioning Phase
Summary Phase
Addressing Confusing Parts Phase
A syllable is a unit of sound that consists of a vowel and consonant; go has one syllable and go/ing has two. Students may struggle with accuracy if they are unable to apply an understanding of syllabication to segment the syllables in new words
Syllabication
List the 7 lines of the Vocabulary Diamond.
Line 1: List the new vocabulary word.
Line 2: List 2 synonyms (words with the same meaning).
Line 3: List 3 additional synonyms.
Line 4: Use the word in a sentence.
Line 5: List 3 antonyms (words with contrasting meanings).
Line 6: List 2 additional antonyms.
Line 7: List 1 additional antonym.
What are the 5 steps to reciprocal teaching?
Prediction phase, questioning phase, summary phase, addressing confusing parts phase, reflect
The goal of this reading lesson is to explicitly model your predetermined literacy goals for the students. This lesson should be 15–20 minutes in length.
Daily reading lesson
What is the last step in the "Say something" technique?
The teacher leads a discussion about the text, with the option of focusing on a particular concept from the text. Students describe how they used the say something technique during the reading to support comprehension.