Component's of a "skilled" reader
The understanding that spoken language is broken into phonemes (sound)
What is Phonemic Awareness?
A cooperative learning strategy in which two students work together to read an assigned text.
What is Buddy Reading?
The smallest unit of sound that makes up a complete word
What is a Phoneme?
A skill that involves looking for specific pieces of information such as key terms or dates in texts/books.
What is Scanning?
Reading a text quickly to get the gist/basic overall main ideas of it rather than trying to read every little detail.
What is Skimming?
The understanding of what one is reading
What is Comprehension?
The strategy where students join in or share the reading of a book/other text while guided and supported by a teacher
What is Shared Reading?
The combination of two letters that represent one sound
Example--> c + h = ch
What is a Digraph?
A skill that consists of a student reconstructing a story that they have read.
What is Retelling?
Fast, effortless word recognition that comes from a great deal of reading practice; accurate, speedy word recognition.
What is Automaticity?
The ability to recognize and work with sounds in spoken language; not seen but heard.
What is Phonological Awareness?
A rereading strategy designed to help students develop expressive, fluent reading as well as used for print knowledge.
What is Echo Reading?
A symbol used to identify a phoneme.
What is a Grapheme?
A skill that consists of comparing in order to show unlikeness or differences.
What is Contrasting?
The act of understanding what you are reading.
What is Literacy Comprehension?
The knowledge of words and word meaning
What is Vocabulary?
A literacy strategy used to help build fluency, self-confidence and motivation in reading which consists of students/group of students read a passage together.
What is Choral Reading?
The smallest meaningful unit in the grammar of a language.
What is a Morpheme?
To say that something is similar to something else; to look at two or more things closely in order to see what is similar/different.
What is Comparing?
The ability to process written information and understand the underlying meaning of the text.
What is Inferential Comprehension?
Sounds (phonemes) to print/letter words (graphemes)
What is Phonics?
An instructional approach that involves the teacher working with small groups of students that demonstrate similar reading behaviors; focus is not to teach a selected book, but teach reading strategies that apply to all books.
What is Guided Reading?
The arrangement of words and sentences to create meaning.
What is Syntax?
Giving a brief statement of the main points of something.
What is Summarizing?
The elements and or parts of a story or text
What is Story Grammar?