Elements of Reading
We do this to "use context clues" to determine what something means.
What is use surrounding details from the text to understand what you're reading?
The smallest unit of spoken sound.
What is a phoneme?
What is the bottom number of a fraction called?
Denominator
Basic words used in everyday conversation, that do not usually require explicit instruction.
What are tier 1 words?
How many days in a revolution around the Sun?
365 Days
A group of lines in a poem that the author uses to keep topics together.
What is a stanza?
Letters and groups of letters that represent a phoneme.
What is a grapheme?
A rectangle is 8 feet long and 4 feet wide. What is the area?
The area is 32 square feet.
Words used more frequently in text than in spoken language.
What are Tier 2 words?
What is a producer?
Uses suns energy to make its own food.
This genre is a story about a real place and real characters.
What is non-fiction?
Elements of phonemes or graphemes: visual
What are graphemes?
Round 247,596 to the nearest ten-thousand
250,000
Words with low frequency, that are limited to specific topics, they require explicit teaching.
What are Tier 3 words?
Chlorophyll needs this in order to start growth and turn plants green
what is the sunlight?
Onomatopoeia is one element used in poetry. It means this.
What are sound words?
Elements of phonemes or graphemes: 'ough'
What are graphemes?
What is the value of the 2 in 1,623,985?
20,000
This element is crucial for comprehension.
What is vocabulary?
What is a benefit that plants receive from humans?
Carbon dioxide
Effective readers need: oral language, phonological awareness, vocabulary, fluency, comprehension and ......
What is phonics?
Elements of phonemes or graphemes: speech
What are phonemes?
If our class has 12 students. 3/4 of the students wear glasses. How many students wear glasses?
9 students wear glasses.
Domain-specific words are which of the three tiers?
Tier 3
This is what causes the Earth's seasons
Tilt of the Earth on its axis