A student reads with less than 90% accuracy and/or less than 60% comprehension.
What is frustration level?
100
A single sound from two letters; for example, ch is one.
What is a digraph?
100
The rhythm, intonation, and stress of speech, or reading with expression.
What is prosody?
100
Semantic maps used before reading
What is a strategy for direct teaching of specific words?
100
Setting, character, plot, point of view and theme.
What are story elements?
200
A record of a student's oral reading of a passage in order to identify errors.
What is miscue analysis?
200
Phonemic awareness, the ability to distinguish separate sounds, is a sub-category of ...?
What is phonological awareness?
200
This is developed through systematic phonics instruction, sight word recognition, and syllabic and morphemic analysis strategies.
What is automaticity?
200
Academic language that appears frequently across a variety of content areas
What are Tier two words?
200
The ability of the reader to the make judgements about what he or she has read.
What is Evaluation Comprehension?
300
A battery of assessments that may include Word Recognition lists, graded reading passages, and vocabulary assessments.
What is an informal reading inventory? (IRI)
300
Shared reading of Big Books, where each step of the process is talked through (e.g. tracking, pointing out periods and discussing parts of the book) is an activity to teach
What is concepts of print?
300
Weak word analysis skills
What is a factor that can disrupt fluency?
300
A hint about the words meaning from the text around it.
What is a context clue?
300
Activities used to clarify and gain meaning or understanding from text.
What are comprehension strategies?
400
A test designed to determine reading levels by omitting words from the text.
What is a CLOZE test?
400
Two words that look alike and mean the same thing in two different languages.
What are cognates?
400
The method called phrase-cued reading.
What is an intervention to build prosody?
400
Consists of the words that you use when you talk.
What is speaking vocabulary?
400
The three taxonomies that RICA uses to classify reading comprehension skills.
What are literal, inferential, and evaluative?
500
Giving the students more time, changing the mode of delivery, and using a simpler version are examples.
What is differentiated assessment?
500
A vowel sound caused by the combination of two vowel sounds.
What is a dipthong?
500
A student's voice rising and falling at the correct time while reading.
What is appropriate pitch?
500
Over a period of time the gap between high-achieving and low-achieving readers widens.
What is "The Matthew Effect"?
500
Three methods of differentiated instruction for struggling readers.
What are reteaching, additional practice and concrete examples?