Tutoring Experience and Requirements
Ehri's Phases of Word Reading
Components of Reading
Tutoring Scenarios and the 6 Components of Reading
Additional Vocabulary Terms
100

Number of hours required to be designated as a RAISE/New Worlds scholar

What is 75?

100

A child is this phase begins to use chunks to decode, rather than individual phonemes (sounds). Multi-letter patterns are stored into memory and recognized instantly.

What is consolidated alphabetic?

100

The relationships between graphemes (letters of written language) and phonemes (the sounds of spoken language).

What is phonics?

100

In Mrs. Abbott’s 5th grade ELA class, Olivia smoothly reads a passage about hurricanes, but she struggles to recognize the organizational pattern.  She cannot tell whether the passage is cause/effect, problem/solution, or chronological order.  

What is comprehension?

100

A, E, I, O, U (and often Y)

What are vowels?

200

Tutoring sessions must occur here

What is a designated school campus?

200

A child in this phase has little or no alphabetic knowledge and instead relies on cues, such as pictures to figure out words.

What is pre-alphabetic?

200

The system of words and word combinations used to communicate with others through speaking.

What is oral language?

200

Carlos is a fluent reader of single-syllable words, but he stumbles on longer words like fantastic, remember, and population.  He often guesses rather than decoding syllables.  Carlos is a 4th grader.  

What is phonics?

200

Letters other than vowels are called this

What are consonants?

300

Tutoring hours can contribute toward this state-wide scholarship program

What is Bright Futures?

300

In this phase, word reading is quick and effortless, and most words have become sight words.

What is automatic?

300

The knowledge of the meanings and pronunciation of words that are used in oral and written language.

What is vocabulary?

300

In Mr. Denton’s third grade class, Nicole is struggling to master affixes (prefixes/suffixes) and needs to practice understanding the meanings of these and how they change the meanings of base words.  

What is vocabulary?

300

The smallest unit of sound in a language system

What is a phoneme?

400

Tutoring must be _______________ by a certified teacher at all times.

What is supervised?

400

A child in this phase notices and attends to each letter in a word meaning students are now converting letters into sounds and words.

What is full alphabetic?

400

The ability to read text accurately, automatically, and with appropriate prosody or expression.

What is fluency?

400

Ava can clap out words in a sentence, but she cannot segment syllables into words,  Her kindergarten teacher has been working with her on this skill of segmenting and counting syllables.  For example, Ava needs to understand that a word like elephant is made of three syllables, not one.  

What is phonological awareness?

400

The smallest written unit corresponding to the sound of a phoneme

What is a grapheme?

500

RAISE tutoring must take place with a student in one of these grades

What is K-3rd?

500

A child in this phase demonstrates emerging use of grapheme-phoneme connections. In this phase, children often guess unfamiliar words by using the first letter sound in combination with the context.

What is partial alphabetic?

500

The process of simultaneously extracting and constructing meaning through interaction and involvement with written language.

What is comprehension?

500

In Mrs. Finley’s 2nd grade class, Mason decodes accurately, but he reads word by word, with long pauses between each.  His teacher notices he does not group words into phrases, which makes it difficult for him to understand what he reads.  

What is fluency?

500

Rhyming, alliteration, blending, and segmenting sounds are all skills under the umbrella of ________________________.  

What is phonological awareness?

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