Reading Assessments and Phonological and Phonemic Awareness
What is the 1 + 1 Strategy for reading
It is a strategy to motivate independent reading. First, determine the student’s independent reading level. Next, find out the student’s reading interest. Then, search for books that meet both criteria to encourage independent reading.
What is environmental print?
Printed messages that people encounter in ordinary, daily living. Milk cartons, bumper stickers, candy wrappers, toy boxes, and cereal boxes, billboards, menus, t-shirts.
These two structural analysis direct instruction techniques help students learn prefixes, suffixes and roots.
What are Whole-to-Part and Part-to-Whole?
What are the 3 things a reader must have adequately developed in order to comprehend a text?
Meaning vocabulary 2. Academic language knowledge 3. Background knowledge
This tool can be used to assess which students monitor their reading, reread what they don’t understand, and are able to implement other reading strategies.
Think-alouds
What does a student’s “instructional reading level” mean?
An instructional reading level is material that a student can read and understand, with help from the teacher.
What is a digraph?
Two letter combinations that make one sound. For example: ph in phone and th in thorn.
For teaching spelling, one of the teaching methods is multisensory techniques. What are all of the multisensory techniques?
Visual, Use of color, Auditory, Kinesthetic, Tactile, and Mental Imagery
There are 4 components of vocabulary instruction. Name one.
Direct instruction of specific words, teaching students independent word
For early readers, going through a book to have students see their illustrations before reading the book is?
Picture walk
What would you call the type of instruction where a teacher chooses different resources and materials for different groups of students?
Differentiated instruction
Which instructional strategy uses an oversized picture book with large print to teach about word identification, concepts about print, and/or about a love for books?
Shared Book Experience (or shared reading)
Automaticity is the result of these three indicators of fluent reading.
What are accuracy, rate and prosody?
There are 3 different independent word-learning strategies; morphemic analysis, contextual analysis, and using the dictionary. Which independent word-learning strategy requires students to look at parts of words to determine their meaning?
Morphemic Analysis
What are some assessments that teachers can use to assess comprehension of literary texts and literary response skills?
student read and teacher read-aloud, oral and written, and free and focused)
Define either onset or rime, and identify it in the word “spring”
Onset: the initial consonant sound or consonant blend
Rime: the vowel sound and consonants that follow
Onset: Spr & Rime: ing
Describe how to teach sounding out and blending vowel-consonant(VC) and consonant-vowel-consonant(CVC) words
Teaching children to sound out the separate sounds, displaying the letter and voicing, blending the two to three sounds together by modeling.
These two general instructional strategies will improve all components of fluency.
What are Monitored Oral Reading and Repeated Readings?
There are 5 text structures, what are they?
Cause and Effect, Problem and Solution, Comparison/Contrast, Sequence, and Description
These are texts that transmit information, such as textbooks, encyclopedias, and dictionaries.
What are expository texts?
What is a miscue analysis?
Examining a record of the student’s oral reading to identify and classify errors is called a miscue analysis.
What is Whole-to-Part phonics instruction?
Start with sentences that all have a word with the common element, then look at focus words, and end up with the sound-symbol relationship.
What are the four factors that disrupt fluency?
The four factors that disrupt fluency are (1) weak word analysis skills, (2) lack of familiarity with content vocabulary, (3) lack of background knowledge, and (4) lack of familiarity with complex sentence structures.
What are the 3 levels of reading comprehension
Literal, inferential and evaluative
How can teachers meet the needs of struggling readers with expository/informational texts?
Assist the students with reading textbooks, focus on key vocabulary, more scaffolding on key processes, and vocabulary instruction with real objects, illustrations, and diagrams