The ability to use reading and writing for a variety of tasks at school or outside of school.
What is Literacy?
100
A written representation of a sound using one or more letters.
What is a Grapheme?
100
Children’s basic understanding that speech is composed of a series of individual sounds. Foundation for phonics and spelling.
What is Phonemic Awareness?
100
A method of estimating the difficulty level of a text.
What is Readability Formula?
100
95%-100% accuracy.
What is Independent Level?
200
Cognitive structures in which knowledge is organized
What is schema?
200
Prosody
The ability to orally read sentences expressively, with appropriate phrasing and intonation.
200
A sound; it is represented in print with slashes.
What is Phoneme?
200
Procedures for assisting students in learning, providing options, challenging students, and matching books to students to maximize their learning.
What is Differentiated Instruction?
200
1:1, 1:2, 1:3
What are acceptable Self-Correction levels?
300
Reading for enjoyment or pleasure.
What is Aesthetic Stance?
300
Reading to locate and remember information.
What is Efferent Stance?
300
A strategy for segmenting sounds in a word that involves drawing a box to represent each sound.
What is Elkonin boxes?
300
The teacher reads a book aloud with a group of children as they follow along in the text, often with a big book.
What is Shared Reading?
300
The term for the amount of words in the passage.
What is Running Words?
400
The sound system of English with approximately 44 sounds and more than 500 ways to spell them.
What is Phonological System?
400
The structural system of English that governs how words are combined into sentences.
What is Syntactic System?
400
Say cat. Now say it without the /k/.
What is a Phoneme Deletion example?
400
Observation of individual students as they read aloud and recording information to analyze their reading fluency.
What is a Running Record?
400
Meaning, Syntactic, Visual
What is are the types of miscues?
500
The system of English that varies language according to social and cultural uses.
What is Pragmatic System?
500
The meaning system of English that focuses on vocabulary.
What is Semantic System?
500
A voiced speech sound made without friction or stoppage of the airflow as it passes through the vocal tract; the letters a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes w and y.
What is a Vowel?
500
Children’s early reading and writing development BEFORE conventional reading and writing.
What is Emergent Literacy?
500
Fluency.
The concept assessed in a running record.
Or, a reading rate of at least 100 wpm, automaticity, prosody.