Constructing meaning that is reasonable and accurate by connecting what has been read to what the reader already knows and thinking about this information until it is understood.
What is comprehension?
100
Words we need to know to communicate with others
What is vocabulary?
100
A set of rules that specifiy the relationship between letters in the spelling of words and the sounds of spoken language.
What is phonics?
100
Sounds that make up spoken words
What are phonemes?
200
The ability to read with speed, accuracy, intonation, phrasing, and proper expression.
What is the definition of fluency?
200
Graphic and semantic organizers, cooperative learning, answering questions about what has been read, using prior knowledge to connect what one has read to what they already know, etc .
What are some examples of comprehension strategies?
200
The four types of vocabulary are these
What are listening, speaking, reading, and writing?
200
Students are taught to sound out words by matching sounds to letters and then blending the sounds to make words
What is synthetic phonics?
200
Single letters or clusters of letters tha represent single sounds
What are graphemes?
300
Students who were low in fluency also exhibit difficulty with comprehension.
What is the relationship between fluency and comprehension?
300
Explicit explanation along with modeling of the strategy
What is the most effective way to teach comprehension?
300
Directly even though a great deal of vocabulary is learned indirectly is an example of this
What is the way vocabulary should be taught?
300
Students detect and blend word parts that are larger than phonemes
What is larger-unit phonics?
300
what word is made from blending these sounds: /b/ /a/ /t/ (bat) is an example of this.
What is blending phonemes?
400
Repeated reading and guided repeated oral reading
What are two forms of practice that have been shown to improve fluency?
400
Teaching decoding skills, teaching vocabulary, and teaching word knowledge have been shown to do this
What is increase reading comprehension?
400
A way students can learn unfamiliar words
What is reading aloud?
400
This is never a total reading program.
What is phonics?
400
what is the first sound in the word dog? is an example of this
What is isolating phonemes
500
The bridge between word recognition and comprehension
What is fluency?
500
prediction, analyzing stories with respect to story grammar elements, question asking, image construction, and summarizing are all examples of this
What are some examples of reading comprehension strategies?
500
The glue that holds stories, ideas and content together…
making comprehension accessible for children.
What is vocabulary instruction?
500
Kindergarten through second grade
What is when phonics is typically taught?
500
The connection between visual information about the word as it appears in print and its meaning, pronunciation, and other information that is stored in the child's oral vocabulary.