Comprehension Sub Processes
Writing Processes
Developmental stages of spelling
Levels of Reading Instruction
Potpourri
100
A teacher echo reads with a student.
What are microprocesses?
100
A child decides that what he has written doesn't make sense so he changes it.
What is revision?
100
Children learn to represent phonemes in words with letters.
What is letter-name spelling?
100
Children and teacher discuss the story after reading.
What is RESPONDING?
100
This is the ability to manipulate and segment sounds in words.
What is PHONEMIC AWARENESS?
200
A teacher concentrates on a story's structure so children see the big picture of the text.
What are macroprocesses?
200
A teacher models choosing a topic to write about through brainstorming, webbing, or listing ideas.
What is pre-writing?
200
Children learn long vowel patterns and r-controlled vowels.
What is within-word pattern spelling?
200
Teachers activate schema and background knowledge by doing a picture walk or discussion before reading a story.
What is pre-reading?
200
This is the reading cue system that focuses on meaning and making sense of text.
What is SEMANTIC cue system?
300
A teacher uses "close" reading questions so children understand connections among words in a paragraph and synonym and pronoun substitutions.
What are integrative processes?
300
Children write without worrying about correct spelling because they know they will go back and polish it up later.
What is drafting?
300
Children explore the relationship between spelling and meaning.
What is derivational relations spelling?
300
Teachers teach mini-lessons on reading strategies, vocabulary, or story structure.
What is EXPLORING?
300
This is the rate, accuracy, and prosody with which one reads.
What is FLUENCY?
400
A teacher does an extensive pre-reading activity so children relate the story theme to their own lives.
What are elaborative processes?
400
Children polish their writing (maybe with help from the teacher) by correcting spelling and grammar mistakes.
What is editing?
400
Children produce scribbles, maybe some letters, and letter-like forms.
What is emergent or pre-phonetic spelling?
400
This part of the process can be done through readaloud, shared reading, guided reading, or independent reading.
What is READING?
400
This is an instructional approach that focuses on letter/sound correspondence and helping children decode text and spell words.
What is PHONICS?
500
A teacher models "thinking aloud" as s/he reads.
What are metacognitive processes?
500
Sharing writing in a particular form.
What is publishing?
500
Children spell longer, multi-syllabic words.
What is syllables and affixes spelling?
500
Students engage in making individual or small group projects after reading.
What is APPLYING?
500
"Don't throw away the baby with the bath water" is an example of using this kind of figurative language.
What is an IDIOM?
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