The understanding that there are systematic and predictable relationships between written letters and spoken sounds.
What is the alphabetic principle?
200
A constructive process of creating meaning invovling a reader, a text, and a purpose.
What is reading?
200
Planning, Monitoring, Evaluating, Reflecting.
What are the four steps of assessment?
200
The understanding of sound structure in a langauge.
What is phonological awareness?
200
Letters that represent sounds in a word.
What are graphemes?
200
The process of using letter/sound knowledge to write; translating printed words to sounds, or reading.
What is decoding?
300
Understading the text and using it for its intended purpose.
What is comprehension?
300
Observations that are recorded in order to be considered an assessment when a child is reading.
What are anecdotal records?
300
Knowledge of words at the level of individual sounds.
What is phonemic awareness?
300
When two consonants represent a single sound that aren't represented by either letter.
What are consonant diagraphs?
300
The consonant sound before the vowel in a word.
What is onset?
400
This term involves; Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Fluency, Vocabulary, Comprehension.
What is the "Big 5" of reading instruction?
400
Teachers determine and find out students' reading levels, differentiate instruction, create classroom intervention, and make accurate placement decisions.
What are dignostic tests?
400
Segmenting, Blending, and Manipulating are all part of ___________ awareness.
What is Phonemic?
400
When two vowels represent a single sound.
What are Vowel Diagraphs?
400
occurs when a vowel is at the end of the syllable, resulting in the long vowel sound.
What is open syllable?
500
Name three things that effective reading teachers can do in their classroom.
1. Understand how students learn
2. Differentiate Instruction
3. Scaffold Students' Reading and Writing
500
Tommy read a book to his teacher Miss Davis. He read most of the words correct, but stumbled upon a few words. In this case Miss Davis had to help Tommy sound them out. This is a ___________ reading level.
What is instructional reading level?
500
Both phonological and phonemic awareness focus on _______ elements of spoken words.
What is sound?
500
When two vowels represent a glide from one sound to another.
What are diphthongs?
500
Putting two consonants together while they each retain their unique sound.