Reading
Student can recognize the words in a text with 95% or more accuracy
Independent Reading level
Ends in a consonant with a short vowel while being close on the right side.
Closed Syllable
A teaching approach for reading in which the phonemics associated with particular are not pronounced in isolation. Usage of clues are used to read
Analytic phonics approach
A comprehension strategy encouraging readers to attend to the meaning of the text. Reinforcing elements of story structure.
Retelling
A selective reading process that allows readers to locate facts quickly and also find answers to specific questions.
Scanning
The student can recognize the words in a text with about about 90% accuracy
Instructional Reading Level
Three levels of understanding: Literal meaning, inferential meaning and evaluative meaning. Literal meaning. Literal meaning is what the text describes as happening in the story
Inferential Comprehension
A whole language approach. Moves from the whole to the smallest part.
Implicit Phonics
At early level repeats the same sentences pattern multiple times with one or two changes in each sentence. Often the small change is represented by a picture.
Patterned/Predictable Text
Fast reading, comprehension is low
Skimming
The student recognizes fewer than 90% of words in a text
Frustration Reading Level
Refers to a narrative written discourse while grammar is usually described as the study of words.
Story Grammar
Also known as synthetic phonics builds from the part whole. Focuses on blending and building, beginning with blending the sounds into syllables.
Explicit Phonics
The practice of measuring language proficiency or language comprehension by requiring examinees to to restore words that have been removed from otherwise normal text.
Close tests/Procedure
Making mental pictures as you read, like a movie playing in your brain.
Visualizing
The ability to read accurately appropriate, rate prosody components of how you sound.
Fluency
Groups of two or three consonant words that make a distinct consonant sound " bl" "br" "ch"
Consonant Blend
Cues that involve letter sound or sound- symbol relationship of language. Readers identifying unknown words by relating speech sounds to letters or letter patterns
Graphophonic Cues
The ability to read text process it and understand its meaning.
Literacy Comprehension
Reading aloud with pitch, stress and timing to convey meaning.
Prosody
One is to say how things are the same and the other is to tell how they are different
Compare and Contrast
A syllable that ends in a vowel such as "me", "be" , " "you"
Open Syllable
The recognition the written letters ( the symbols) represents the sounds of spoken language.
The alphabetic principle
A branch of linguistics concerned with the study of meaning. When a word is unknown the known words around that are the source of semantic cues.
Semantic Cues
With this strategy teachers verbalize aloud while reading a selection orally. Their verbalizations include describing things they're doing as they read to monitor their comprehension.
Thinking aloud
A tool that helps teachers to identify patterns in students reading behavior. These patterns allow a teachers to see the strategies a student uses to make meaning of individual words and texts as a whole.
Running Records
The ability to quickly and accurately identify words.
Automaticity
The ability to apply your knowledge of letter-sound relationships, including knowledge of letters patterns, to correctly pronounce written words.
Deconding
An informal assessment of the concepts of prints, including what assessments measures when it should be assessed, examples of questions and the age or grade which the assessments should be mastered
Print Concepts or concept prints
The mental operations involved when readers approach a text effectively to make sense of what they read. Predict, visualize, question
Reading Strategies
A temporary framework that is put up as support and access to meaning and taken away as a needed when the child secures control of success with a task.
Scaffolding
Word that we use in speaking or recognize in listening.
Oral Vocabulary
Readers that are beginning to learn sound/symbol relationships starting with consonants and short vowels and are able to read CvC consonant vowel Consonant.
Emergent Reader
The action or capability of understanding something.
Comprehension
Words that are recognized or used in print
Reading vocabulary
The rate at which a person reads written text (printed or electronic) in a specific unit of time.
Reading Rate
During this time students are thought to produce their own written texts by drawing on knowledge and skills that have been taught during previous teacher modeling and guided practice
Independent Writing
Thinking about one's thinking. Text + your thinking
Metacognition