Letter Recognition & Alphabetic Knowledge
This helps build brain pathways for remembering letters.
What is forming letters?
Books have a cover and a back, the cover has a title on it, they are written by people (authors) and illustrated by artists (illustrators), pages are often numbered and you read from top to bottom and left to right.
What is book features?
The awareness that spoken language is composed of units such as sounds, syllables, and words, which can be identified and manipulated.
What is phonological awareness?
A method of teaching people to read and pronounce words by learning the sounds of letters, letter groups, and syllables.
What is systematic phonics?
The ability to read on grade level text smoothly, whether you are reading to yourself or others.
What is Reading Fluency?
The ability to recognize every letter of the alphabet and know the primary sound that each letter makes.
What is alphabetic knowledge?
A set of rules that readers and writers follow so that text can be understood in the intended way.
What is concepts of print?
The smallest unit of sound.
What is a phoneme?
The belief, that reading should be more of a "guessing game," where children use context clues to guess the words.
What is Whole Language?
Swiftly reading words the way they are commonly pronounced
What is accuracy?
The ability to recognize and identify each letter of the alphabet by name in upper and lowercase forms
What is letter recognition?
When students use their finger to keep their place when reading.
What is tracking?
These skills are known as the Three A's.
What is Alert, Active & Analytical?
Texts that are used in phonics instruction, focus on a combination of words containing phonics patterns already taught or being taught and high-frequency words taught as "wholes."
What are decodables?
This refers to the speed of oral reading.
What is rate of reading?
Research is clear that these are "the prerequisites for learning to decode."
What is letter recognition, letter-sound knowledge and phonemic awareness?
A lack of book awareness can be detected by giving this test.
What is the Early Reading Inventory?
Though not a part of foundational reading skills instruction, traditionally, schools systemically fail at teaching this important skill and can be identified as a major source of persistently weak reading results in the US.
What is vocabulary?
This was commissioned by Congress in 1997 to "evaluate existing research and evidence to find the best ways of teaching children to read."
What is the National Reading Panel (NPR)?
Reading aloud with expression suited to what you are reading.
What is Prosody?
Kindergarteners' letter naming ability correlates with the ability to comprehend at this grade level.
What is 10th grade?
Another name for Concepts of Print.
What is print awareness?
A group of words that is one complete idea and has someone or something doing some action.
What is a sentence?
In these classrooms, children and their teachers aren't using materials that follow a scope and sequence of phonics patterns, explicitly and transparently teach those patterns, or encourage reading books to solidify those patterns in a rock-solid way.
What is Balanced Literacy classrooms?
This is caused by a weakness in other foundational skills for upper elementary learners.
What is Disfluency?