5 Components to a Balanced Literacy Program
Quality Instruction
Supplemental Instruction
Classroom Instruction
Hodgepodge
100
This is the ability to hear and manipulate the smallest units of sound (phonemes) in spoken language
What is Phonemic Awareness?
100
This is the teacher demonstrating the cognitive strategies while discussing the steps in the process
What is talk alouds?
100
One characteristic of an effective intervention program
What is high standards, effectiveness, reliability or support structures?
100
This helps guide and design instruction for struggling readers
What are assessments?
100
A building block for decoding and word recognition
What is phonemic awareness?
200
This is the knowledge of words and their meanings
What is vocabulary?
200
One component at the heart of the direct instruction method
What is explicit explanations, modeling, demonstrating or guided practice?
200
This model provides for early intervention, focuses on prevention, and links assessment directly to student outcomes and educational programming
What is Response to Intervention?
200
The scientifically based practice that is used to assess students' academic performance and evaluate the effectiveness of instruction
What is progress monitoring?
200
The understanding that there are systematic and predictable relationships between written letters and spoken sounds
What is the alphabetic principle?
300
Teaches sound-symbol relationships in a sequence that facilitates accurate, automatic word decoding
What is phonics?
300
This involves discussion of the steps used in a strategy, but they also include a description of the reasoning that readers use when performing the task
What is think alouds?
300
This tier provides intensive small group instruction
What is Tier 2?
300
The fundamental goal of education is to teach children to become these type of learners
What is self-directed learners?
300
Struggling readers need systematic, explicit instruction in these two phonemic awareness skills
What is segmenting and blending?
400
This is defined as a combination of word reading accuracy, automaticity and prosody
What is reading fluency?
400
These are forms of support provided by the teacher to help students bridge the gap between their current abilities and the intended goal
What are scaffolds?
400
This tier provides instruction that is further intensified and delivered either through small groups or individually
What is tier 3?
400
Classroom teachers should use this for organizing and managing their instruction
What is an Instructional Framework?
400
Children who start off poorly in reading typically remain deficient readers throughout their schooling and beyond is called the
What is the Matthew Effect?
500
This is the focus of all reading engagement
What is reading comprehension?
500
This tier provides high-quality classroom instruction
What is Tier 1?
500
When providing supplemental instruction, students should be divided into groups of students based on this
What is similar needs?
500
The development of early reading skills in this is very similar to the development of those skills in non-English language learners
What is English Language Learners?
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