PA, COP, and AP
Vocabulary
Phonics
Assessment
Writing
100
Having an understanding that print carries meaning, while also knowing how books "work"
Print Awareness or Concepts of Print
100
The smallest unit of sound in our spoken language
What is a phoneme?
100
/m/, /a/, /f/, /sh/, /l/
What are examples of continuous sounds?
100
Assessments that are on-the-go, allow the teacher to get information about the reader throughout the process of reading, provide ongoing feedback, and allow the teacher to revise and tailor ongoing instruction.
What are formative assessments?
100
What is drawing and strings of letters?
200
Labeling items in the classroom, providing pattern predictable texts, and reading to children are all ways of doing this.
How can you promote print awareness/concepts of print?
200
A written letter or a group of letters representing one speech sound
What is a grapheme?
200
Pronouncing Pp as /p/ instead of /puh/
Pronouncing Gg as /g/ instead of /guh/
Pronouncing Ll as /l/ instead of /luh/
What is "clipping the schwa"?
200
Expressed as a percentage that is calculated by subtracting the total reading errors from the total read words, divided by the total words read times 100.
What is an Accuracy Rate?
200
Spelling
U r m fnd.
(You are my friend.)
What is the semiphonetic stage?
300
Asking where the front cover of a book is, having a student find the first/last word in a sentence, and asking a child to identifying upper and lower case letters on a page
How can you assess print awareness and concepts of print?
300
Two letters that represent one speech sound. Examples: sh, ch, th
What is a digraph?
300
Letter sounds, short vowel patterns, blends and digraphs, r-controlled vowels, long vowel words, and diphthongs and unique vowel patterns
What is the order of phonics skills from easiest to most challenging?
300
Meaning, Structure, and Visual
What are the three error types we evaluate with miscue analysis on a running record?
300
The practice of children using incorrect and unconventional spelling of words that primarily demonstrates their phonological knowledge.
What is Invented/Inventive Spelling?
400
the understanding that there are systematic and predictable relationships between written letters and spoken sounds
What is alphabetic principle?
400
When you have two or more letters appearing together, and you can hear each sound that each consonant would normally make
What is a consonant blend?
400
/f/, /h/, /t/, /sh, /p/
What are examples of unvoiced phonemes?
400
Standardized process for coding, scoring, and analyzing a student’s precise reading behaviors
What is a running record?
400
Understanding the meaning of the words you spell
What is Semantic Knowledge?
500
Two to four per week, daily practice, explicit instruction, and taught in isolation.
How should we teach letter-sound correspondence and alphabetic principle?
500
A sound formed by the combination of two vowel sounds in a single syllable, in which the sound begins as one vowel and moves toward another.
What is a diphthong?
500
CV
CVC
CVVC
CVCV
VC
What are vowel consonant patterns?
500
An assessment that helps us to gain a baseline understanding of student mastery, helps us to form groups for learning, and helps us to determine goals for a unit.
What is a diagnostic assessment?
500
Understanding what letter patterns are plausible in English spelling and knowing there are conventions that help us decide which letter patterns to use
What is Orthographic Knowledge?