Reading Skills
Sound/Symbol Recognition
What is graphophonics?
The teacher works with a small group of students and guides while they read material that is slightly harder
What is guided reading?
Student provided text through dictation, the teacher writes down everything verbatim, student reads back the story
What is language-experience approach?
Gestures, pictures, signs/symbols, other cues
What are scaffolds?
Word order understanding
What is syntax?
Students read by themselves but share and discuss the text in a group
What is literature study?
Stories that use repeated phrases, refrains and sometimes rhymes
What are pattern books?
An informal reading assessment tool that focuses on the reader's miscues
What is miscue analysis?
Ability to predict and confirm word meaning
What is semantics?
Motivates students to read, increase vocabulary, builds background knowledge, improve comprehension
What is independent reading?
A scaffold activity where the teacher asks questions throughout a story, guiding students to make predictions.
Published sets of reading passages of gradually increasing difficulty, followed by factual and interpretive comprehension questions
What are informal reading inventories?
Ability to make inferences
What is cognitive processes?
20-30 minutes of silent reading
What is USSR?
Beginning readers present an expressive and dramatic reading of a script
What is readers' theatre?
A shorthand transcription of a child's oral reading of a text, taken "on the spot," while the child is reading
What are running records?
Understand the importance of rereading texts for clarification
What is metacognitive strategies?
Reading many texts on the same topic
What is narrow reading?
Personal notebooks in which students write informal comments about the stories they are reading
What are literature response journals?
An ongoing assessment that also provides opportunities to discuss literary elements
What is guided reading?