Reading
Development &
Assessment
Development &
Assessment
The rich get richer and poor get poorer.
The smallest unit of speech that makes a difference in a word's meaning.
What is a phoneme?
Two words in different languages that share a similar meaning, pronunciation, and spelling.
What are cognates?
The three elements of fluency instruction.
What are rate, accuracy, and prosody?
The tier of words that should be targeted for vocabulary instruction.
What are Tier 2 words?
The ultimate goal of reading instruction.
What is comprehension?
The vowel and everything after it in a monosyllabic word.
A letter or written expression of one sound.
What is a grapheme?
Reading with expression.
What is prosody?
Skillful use of words.
What is adept diction?
A type of language encountered most commonly in the school context.
An activity that requires students to pull sound markers into individual boxes representing sounds in words.
What are Elkonin Boxes?
Words that can be decoded based on phonics rules.
What are regular words?
The three levels of text readability.
What are independent, instructional, and frustration levels?
The use of word order to convey meaning.
What is syntax?
A type of reading difficulty most concerned with word reading difficulties
What is dyslexia?
Word level, syllable level, onset-rime level, and phoneme level.
What are the levels of phonological awareness?
Words that are irregular at one point in instruction but eventually become regular after all sound/spelling are taught.
What are temporarily irregular words?
Reading aloud in unison, as a whole class or small group, along with a teacher or more-capable reader.
What is choral reading?
The smallest meaningful unit of language.
What is a morpheme?
A type of reading assessment used to pinpoint specific areas of weakness.
What is a diagnostic assessment?
Given a word, students recognize the word that remains when a phoneme is removed from that word.
What is phoneme deletion?
A “roadmap” or “blueprint” for teachers that provides an overall picture of an instructional program and includes the range of teaching content and the order or sequence in which it is taught.
What is a scope and sequence?
Rereading of text until the reader is able to read at a predetermined rate to produce fluency.
What is repeated oral reading?
The social context in which a sentence occurs.
What is pragmatics?