Theorists
Terminology
Teaching Practices
Science of Reading
5 Pillars of Instruction
100

The theorist who researched and wrote about funds of knowledge?

Who is Moll

100

These "boxes" can assist students in learning how to make words and break words apart. 

What are Elkonian boxes

100

This type of engagement allows the teacher to model what good reading sounds like.

What is a read aloud

100

The "reading wars" is a conflict rooted between which practices of reading instruction? 

What is whole language and phonics or SOR

100

This report includes the 5 components that should be included in reading instruction per research done over several years. 

What is the NRP Report: National Reading Panel Report

200

The theorists who coined the 7 conditions for learning?

Who is Cambourne

200

The umbrella term for any work that helps students learn to notice and/or manipulate sounds in speech. 

What is phonological awareness

200

The components in a classroom that encompass reading instruction during a block of time each day.

What is Reading Workshop

200

This diagram provides a visual as to how word recognition and language comprehension manifest into skilled reading. 

Scarborough's Reading Rope

200

This pillar of instruction includes the ability for a student to read prosodically 

What is fluency

300

I do, you do, we do is similar to this theorist's explanation of what good instruction should include.

Who is Holdaway

300

What is the term for the phase students are at when they make a connection between the letters and the sounds they make?

What is alphabetic principle

300

This practice has students writing each letter of a word paying attention to the number of letters and how the letters look. 

What is orthographic mapping

300

This current practice of reading instruction includes the formula: D X L = Reading Comprehension 

What is the Science of Reading
300

Using "tiers" when teaching this pillar will assist in your instructional decisions

What is vocabulary 

400

The stages of reading that children engage in as they learn to read was researched and named by what theorist? 

Who is Doake? 

400

What is the term defining the set of complex relationships between phonology (sound system of oral language) and orthography (system of spellings of written language); instruction of the sound-letter relationship used in reading and writing?

What is phonics

400

The practice in a classroom when all students can see and are reading from the same text is called this. 

What is shared reading

400

The Science of Reading promotes these ways of instructing students especially in the area of phonics. 

What is explicit and systematic

400

Reading for meaning is the core of this pillar

What is comprehension

500

The following terms align with this theorist's research: heuristic, imaginative, and regulatory. 

Who is Halliday. 

500

What is the term that explains the knowledge of the structural changes that differentiate words having commons roots (i.e. what happens to words when s/ed/prefixes, etc. are added?

What is structural analysis

500

The practice of working with small groups of students to target specific reading skills based on the needs of students is called. 

What is guided reading 
500

The Science of Reading instructs practitioners that students are not born with this. 

What is a "reading brain"

500

Word games, rhymes, and tongue twisters can
help children identify the individual sounds when providing this type of instruction

What is phonemic awareness

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