Reading Theory
Running Records
Put Reading First
Scarborough's Rope
Structured Literacy
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A student takes a field trip to the zoo. He has read about alligators many times and seen them on TV, but this was the first time he has seen one in person. According to Piaget, the student will experience this.

What is assimilation?

100

This is what we call a reading error.

What is a miscue?

100

The Put Reading First study was completed as part of this educational reform.

What is No Child Left Behind?

100

Scarborough's reading rope breaks down this approach to teaching reading.

What is the Simple View of Reading?

100

This organization published knowledge and practice standards for teachers of reading.

What is IDA? (International Dyslexia Association)

200

According to Rosenblatt, every reading event is called this.

What is a transaction?

200

One of the main reasons we take running records.

What is to match a student to a text?

200

This aspect of literacy was later identified as important to literacy instruction but was not part of the original study.

What is writing?

200

The ability to translate a word from print to speech.

What is decoding?

200

We use this when adapting instructional tasks for students' individual needs.

What is differentiated Instruction?

300

As illustrated by Vygotsky's ZPD model, a skilled person can facilitate learning by doing this when teaching.

What is scaffolding?

300
This is the baseline percentage needed to consider a book at the instructional level.

What is 94%?

300

The knowledge of how sounds and letters work together.

What is phonics?

300

This part of the rope continues to develop as we grow older.

What is language comprehension?

300

This is when we teach by using activities that activate the different senses.

What is Simultaneous, Multi-sensory Instruction

400

This theorist illustrated the SVR though the use of a rope.

Who is Scarborough?

400

When this miscue is made, the teacher only counts it as an error the first time it is made for each new word.

What is a teacher told?

400
This important early development set of skills was not identified as one of the big five by the PRF study.

What is phonological awareness?

400

This strand of the rope enables you to make inferences or understand metaphors.

What is verbal reasoning?

400
We should never expect a student to be able to perform a skill before we have done this for them.

What is model?

500

According to Rosenblatt, a reader takes this stance when reading to take away information.

What is efferent?

500

The percentage of a running record and this are used to determine the student's appropriate reading level.

What is teacher judgement?

500

This is the reason only the phonemic awareness skills from phonological awareness was identified as one of the big 5.

What is because the study began in formal schooling years (first grade)?

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This equation is often used to simplify the reading rope.

What is word recognition + language comprehension = skilled reading?
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This is what we call instruction that has a planned sequence.

What is Systematic Instruction?

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