Early Literacy
Name the biggest take away highlighted in the Right to Read Report
What is every child has a right to read?
The first teacher to each student in our classrooms
What is the parent, mom or dad?
What is Silent Reading?
Why the three little pigs built houses
What is to protect themselves from a hungry wolf?
The nursery rhyme has a mouse running up a clock.
What is Hickory, Dickory Dock?
break down a spoken word down into parts that are written or spelled out
What is encoding?
The spontaneous, indirect teaching that occurs when teachers respond to students’ questions
What is a teachable moment?
Phonics builds and reinforces this principle.
What is the Alphabetic Principle?
Does it make sense? A student uses vocabulary, illustrations and activating prior knowledge.
What is schema, what is schematic strategies?
The teacher reads a sentence and then the student reads the same sentence.
What is echo reading?
With guidance, children will soon discover that all 44 ________ in the English language, can be represented by letters or groups of letters.
What are phonemes/sounds?
The category of literature, such as folklore, science, fiction, biography, historical fiction, or a writing form.
What is genre?
This happens when a child is able to apply phonics skills to known words, and blends the series of sounds, in the order in which they occur in the printed word.
What is decoding?
Name one reading comprehension strategy that can be taught
What is summarizing, story elements, sequencing, inferencing, comparing and contrasting, drawing conclusions, self-questioning
This pillar focuses on the ability to read a text accurately, quickly, and with expression.
What is fluency?
Allows you to assess a student's reading performance as she/he reads from a benchmark book.
What is a running record?
Procedures for assisting students in learning, providing options, challenging students, and matching books to students' ability/interest, in order to maximize individualized learning.
What is differentiated instruction?
Matching letters and letter combinations with sounds (sound symbol association).
What is sound mapping?
The best instructional strategy for teaching reading comprehension skills?
What is explicit instruction and modelling?
Where a teacher models and scaffolds comprehension.
What is a read aloud?
All students are screened on a periodic basis to establish an academic and behavioral baseline and to identify struggling learners who need additional support
What is universal screening or screening?
If a student was asked to spell the word luck and wrote "lock", the student might be in this phase of phonological awareness.
What is phonetic phase?
Teaching predictable relationships between phonemes and graphemes.
What is phonics or phonics instruction?
Name one of the three types of reading
What is ... Literal reading, Inferential reading or Critical reading ?
Purposefully and gradually shifts the cognitive load from the teacher to the students. The teacher moves from modelling to guiding instruction to providing students with opportunities to collaborate before they engage in an independent learning experience.