Theory
Phonological Awareness
Fluency and Comprehension
QRI-6
Phonics
100
The many strands woven together to create the skillful execution of reading.
What is Scarborough's braid of literacy.
100
The ability to attend to and manipulate units of sound in speech.
What is phonological awareness?
100
Accurate, effortless and automatic word identification.
What is reading fluency?
100
An alternative, non-standard approach to measuring student achievement.
What is an informal assessment?
100
The idea that letters and letter combinations are used to represent phonemes (individual units of sound).
What is phonics?
200
A developmental literacy standardized assessment for all those pursuing initial teaching certification.
What is the Foundations of Reading Test.
200
A subskill of phonological awareness.
What is phonemic awareness (accept also rhyming, segmenting, blending)?
200
Suitable use of volume, pitch, juncture and stress in voice.
What is expression or prosody?
200
Monitors student learning through ongoing feedback and informs/helps the teacher improve instruction.
What is formative assessment?
200
An approach to teaching phonics in which words are decoded sound by sound explicitly (part to whole).
What is a synthetic approach?
300
Behaviorism, cognitivism and social constructivism all belong to this body of knowledge.
What are theories of learning?
300

The idea that words are made up of parts or beats (syllables).

What is syllable awareness?

300
Strategy for developing reading fluency in which students pretend to be radio disc jockeys.
What is Radio Reading?
300

The QRI-6 helps the teacher determine this for instructional purposes (finding materials, grouping students, intervention, etc.).

What are students' reading levels?

300
Going from letter to sound (sound it out).
What is decoding?
400
Phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary and comprehension.
What are the 5 components of an effective reading program?
400
The smallest meaningful unit of sound in speech.
What is a phoneme?
400
A constructive, interactive process involving the reader, the text and the context in which text is read.
What is comprehension?
400
Consists of having students read for accuracy and automaticity in word identification.
What are the word lists?
400
Going from sound to letter (spelling).
What is encoding?
500
Intentional, planned, and executed with a purpose within a positive learning environment.
What is effective teaching?
500
Most complex/advanced level of phonological awareness.
What is phonemic awareness?
500
A careful analysis or examination of text in order to build critical thinking and foster comprehension.
What is a close reading?
500
Consists of having students read either orally or silently to assess for comprehension and determine instructional reading level.
What are the reading passages?
500
A combination of 2 vowel letters together in words representing only one distinct speech sound ("when two vowels go walking, the first one does the talking").
What are vowel digraphs or vowel teams?
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