Class Highlights
The most popular snack of the semester.
What are bananas?
The formula “word recognition × language comprehension = reading comprehension” refers to this model.
What is the Simple View of Reading?
Listening to these can support all students' development of fluent reading models.
What are audiobooks?
Use a short video, an analogy, or a personally relevant examples to support students before they read a new text.
What is Building/Activating Background Knowledge?
MTSS stands for this full phrase.
What is Multi-Tiered System of Supports?
This person's wife, Danica, visited class in April.
Who is Connor?
This model explains reading as an interactive process that integrates word recognition and linguistic comprehension, highlighting the importance of bridging processes that connect these components.
What is the Active View of Reading?
The first, most important component of fluency.
What is accuracy?
Progressing from simple to complex letter-sound associations is part of this kind of approach to teaching sound-spelling patterns.
What is a systematic phonics?
This level of MTSS provides support to all students through high-quality classroom instruction.
What is Tier 1?
This member of H860 always knew there was too much to cover in class.
Who is Alyssa?
In the Active View of Reading, fluency, vocabulary morphology and print concepts are collected as these components.
What are Bridging Processes?
This classroom activity has proven effects to help build students' reading fluency.
What is repeated reading? Or What is partner reading?
A vocabulary word learning strategy that uses images, sentence examples, and student-friendly definitions is called this.
What is explicit vocabulary instruction?
This term refers to the amount of meaningful learning opportunities in an intervention.
What is dosage?
This person's explanation of the Kintsch model is still wowing the teaching team today.
Who is Malena?
This model connects multiple components (strands) of reading as they become increasingly automatic and increasingly strategic.
What is Scarbrough's Rope (2001)?
A hallmark of fluent reading involves reading with expression, also known as this.
What is prosody or intonation?
This is an example of a test item to measure comprehension where a word is omitted from a sentence.
What is Maze or Cloze?
This assessment is used weekly or every two weeks to understand whether instruction is effective for students requiring extra support.
What is progress monitoring assessment?
This person helped us understand the (sometimes furry) relationship between phonics, orthography, syntax, semantics, understanding and morphology?
Who is the POSSUM Lady? (Melissa Orkin or Maryanne Wolf)
This model emphasizes the role of text, task and reader in successful reading.
What is the RAND model of comprehension (Snow et al)?
This 1 minute test uses national norms to understand how a well a student from grades 1 through 8 is reading at grade level.
What is an Oral Reading Fluency (ORF)?
Building deep, sustained understanding of topics over time rather organizing instruction around learning isolated skills
What is knowledge-building instruction?
A systematic, research-based process for intensifying instruction using ongoing assessment and data to tailor interventions for students who do not respond sufficiently to standard approaches.
What is data-based individualization?