Encoding/Decoding
a method of teaching students to read and spell words by connecting speech sounds with the letters that represent speech sounds in print
What is phonics?
the number of phonemes in the word crouched
What is 5?
un-, re-, in-, dis-
What are the most common prefixes?
background knowledge, vocabulary knowledge, knowledge of text structures
What are some factors that impact reading comprehension?
rate, accuracy, prosody, and stamina
What is the definition of fluency?
letter or letters that represent a single phoneme
What is a grapheme?
the number of syllables in the word protagonist
What is 4?
dictionary use, morphemic analysis, contextual analysis, cognate awareness
What are word-learning strategies?
The process of simultaneously extracting and constructing meaning through interaction and involvement with written language
What is reading comprehension?
oral reading fluency (AKA ORF)
What is a commonly used assessment to monitor student's reading fluency?
beach, ship, thin, cash, chat, bath
What are words that contain consonant diagraphs?
determining how many sounds are in the word blast
adjust, depend, contrast, conclude
What are tier 2 vocabulary words?
a graphic organizer that shows relationships and hierarchies between big ideas used to help build background knowledge
Reader's Theater, Partner Reading, Timed Repeated Reading, & Phrase-Cued Reading
What are evidence-based fluency instructional practices?
car, horn, bird, fern, jerk
What are r-controlled vowels (or syllables)?
a commonly used tool that provides students a concrete representation of sounds
What is an Elkonin box?
the number of morphemes in the word dancer
What is 2?
distilling the most important ideas of something read or learned and showing how they are related to each other
What is a summary?
"visual-phonological links are made between the spelling of a word and its pronunciation and repeated encounters with the word help cement it in the reader's mind"
What is how a word becomes a sight word?
napkin, picnic, fantastic, bedbug, basket
What are words with closed syllables?
sounds that cannot be held (e.g. t,b,p)
receptive and expressive
What are the two domains for knowing a word?
description, classification, sequence, cause/effect, problem/solution & compare/contrast
What are informational text structures?
words that deviate from common phonics patterns or familiar letter-sound relationships (e.g. frOm, whAt)
What makes a word irregular?