Vocab, Word Recognition, & Comprehension
This is the value judgment a word conveys (as opposed to its dictionary definition)
What is connotation?
These are the smallest units of sound.
What are phonemes?
This reading level indicates a child reading with 90–94% accuracy.
What is the instructional level?
This term describes rapid, accurate, and expressive reading.
What is reading fluency?
This phenomenon states that the more you know, the easier it is to learn and the less you know, the harder it is to learn.
What is the “Matthew effect”?
This refers to the words a person can understand (as opposed to the words he or she can produce)
What is receptive vocabulary?
This is the study of learning letter-to-sound correspondences.
What is phonics?
This is the degree to which the result of a measurement can be said to be stable and dependable.
What is reliability?
This is the system of rules for ordering words meaningfully in sentences.
What is syntax?
This is the integration of children with disabilities into mainstream classrooms.
What is inclusion?
This is the comprehension strategy a reader uses to understand information that is implicit in the text
What is making inferences?
This is the initial phonological unit of any word; it is always followed by a rime.
What is an onset?
This is the degree to which a test measures what it claims to measure.
What is content validity?
This is an instructional approach in which the teacher times a student as he or she reads a passage of text multiple times.
What is repeated reading?
This is the theory of comprehension that stresses the reader’s use of background knowledge to actively construct meaning.
What is schema theory?
Using this comprehension strategy, a reader rereads parts of the text to repair comprehension breakdowns.
What is monitoring?
This is a basic unit of meaning that can appear only as part of a larger word.
What is a bound morpheme?
This is a measure used to determine the difficulty level of a text.
What is a readability measure?
An instructional approach that involves a teacher working with a small group of students who demonstrate similar reading behaviors and can all read similar levels of texts.
What is Guided Reading?
This is a program in which students leave their regular classrooms to receive ESL instruction.
What is a pullout program?
These are the five phases of word recognition.
What are logographic, alphabetic, orthographic, morphological, and derivational?
As opposed to an emphasis on meaning, code-emphasis approaches to reading instruction focus on this.
What are phonological awareness and phonics skills?
Teachers must analyze a student’s errors and self-corrections during oral reading of a text to determine which of these three sources of information were used.
What are meaning, structure, and visual?
and structure, and evaluating the content.
What is close reading?
This multi-tiered system of support uses assessment and progress monitoring to provide appropriate interventions.
What is Response to Intervention?