Vocabulary
The ability to match sounds with the letters that represent them.
What is phonics?
These standards are broken into categories like reading, writing, and language.
What is grade-level standards?
This model includes stages like "Reading for Learning" and "Multiple Viewpoints."
What is Jean Chall's Stages of Reading?
A structured activity where students discuss a shared text in small groups, each taking on a role.
What are literature circles?
The tiered approach to identifying and supporting struggling students.
What is Response to Intervention (RTI)?
This involves speaking and listening, providing the foundation for written language.
What is oral language?
Standards that focus on sound-spelling relationships and phonics.
What are reading foundational skills?
The component of Scarborough's Reading Rope that includes decoding and phonological awareness.
What is word recognition?
Time set aside for students to self-select and read books independently.
What is independent reading?
The percentage of students typically supported in Tier 3 of an intervention system.
What is 2-7%?
These are general literacy skills used across content areas, like summarizing and citing sources.
What is content literacy?
The broad framework that all NYS ELA standards are based on.
What are Anchor Standards?
This stage of Jean Chall's framework involves expanding vocabularies and building background knowledge.
What is Stage 3: Reading for Learning the New?
A strategy where teachers stop during a read-aloud to model thinking and ask questions.
What is an interactive read-aloud?
This term refers to the system that combines academic and behavioral supports for all students.
What is Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS)?
The process and ultimate goal of reading, involving constructing meaning from texts.
What is comprehension?
Two types of reading emphasized in the NYS ELA standards.
What are literary and informational reading?
This framework integrates word recognition and language comprehension.
What is Scarborough's Reading Rope?
This teaching method involves using a note-taking tool, predictions, and segmenting a complex text.
What is Directed Reading-Thinking Activity (DRTA)?
At this intervention level, small groups receive targeted support from a specialist.
What is Tier 2?
Specialized literacy practices for making sense of texts within a specific discipline.
What is disciplinary literacy?
The purpose of these is to provide a guide to developmentally appropriate expectations by grade.
What are NYS ELA Standards?
The final stage in Jean Chall’s model, where readers construct understanding based on analysis and synthesis.
What is Stage 5: Construction and Reconstruction?
The instructional model that moves from teacher-led to student-led learning.
What is the Gradual Release Model?
The characteristics of Tier 2 instruction include small groups, evidence-based strategies, and this.
What is fidelity in implementation?