What's Up with the Rope?
Facts/concepts
Background Knowledge
connecting letters, sounds, and forms
alphabet knowledge
smallest unit of sound
phoneme
Writer's workshop always begins with
a mini lesson
LEA
language experience approach
Language Structures
reading with accuracy, automaticity, and prosody
fluency
most common words in written English
High-frequency words
writer's workshop always ends with
sharing
when students see words multiple times and it is added to their sight word recognition
orthographic mapping
print concepts, genre
Literacy Knowledge
instruction in sound-spelling relationships
phonics
Understanding how to navigate print and that it holds meaning
Concepts of Print
6
CVC
consonant, vowel, consonant
syllables, phoneme
Phonological Awareness
having knowledge of words and meanings
vocabulary
Smallest written representation of a sound
grapheme
The first part of the writing process
brainstorming
An organizer, where students move chips to match the sounds produced from a word
Elkonin Boxes
Inferences, metaphors
Verbal Reasoning
producing and comprehending spoken language
oral language
Using knowledge about sound-spelling to recognize words
decoding
Using sound/letter correspondence to put words to paper
encoding
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Michigan - GO BLUE!