Need to Know Definitions
The initial consonant sound of a syllable
What is Onset?
An assessment's purpose is to
What is to monitor the effectiveness of instruction?
Two closely pronounced vowel sounds
What is Diphthong?
Features in the classroom that support literacy
What is labels, class libraries, writing center, and environmental print?
English has this kind of orthography
What is Deep?
Rhythmic pulses in words
What is a Syllable?
A running record is considered this kind of assessment
What is Less formal?
Vowels in stressed syllables tend to be this
What is long/tense or short/lax?
The year the No Child Left Behind Act was established
What is 2001?
Prefixes and suffixes are
What is Derivational morphemes?
Vowel sound + following consonant sounds
What is rime?
A test that measures what it claims to measure
What is validity?
These are three types of writing systems
What are Ideographic, Syllabic, and Alphabetic?
Families in emergent literacy can participate by
What is home books and book baggies?
Effective teachers do this to help students read words in context
What is demonstration and modeling, teacher talk, comparing and contrasting words, and questioning?
Refers to rules that order words and their inflections meaningfully in sentences
What is Syntax?
This type of assessment takes place while instruction is happening
What is formative assessment?
Morphemic awareness does this
What is aids word recognition, aids reading comprehension, and supports spelling development?
This theory dominated the 1970s and 80s
What is whole language approach?
Approaches to assessing word recognition include
What is Informal reading inventories, tests of phonics knowledge, and nonsense word tests?
These three tiers are referred to as:
Tier 1 words-high frequency vocab
Tier 2 words-academic vocab with wide utility
Tier 3 words-high specialized, discipline-specific vocab
What is Lexical Knowledge Tiers?
Qualitative approaches can be used to estimate this
What is Text difficulty?
Syntax is needed for reading comprehension at these two levels
What is sentence level and discourse level?
Common Core State Standards are
What is designed to ensure that students are college and career ready?
Children in the Logographic Phase do this
What is recognizing familiar words as whole displays?