ASSESSMENT
KEY TERMS
INSTRUCTION
STRATEGIES
WILD CARD
100
The student reads a passage, and then the teacher notes each error in a Running Record and does a miscue analysis.
What is assessing Accuracy?
100
Fluent readers pronounce words correctly when reading orally by applying phonics skills, sight word knowledge, structural analysis skills, syllabic analysis skills, and orthographic skills represents.
What is Accuracy?
100
Students should read at an independent level, 50-200 words, and a variety of texts - poetry, stories and non-fiction.
What is monitored oral reading with a teacher?
100
To build automatic word recognition teachers should give additional instruction in word identification skills.
What is a specific strategy to build accuracy for young readers?
100
Readers do this by applying phonics skills, sight word knowledge, structural analysis skills, and orthographic knowledge.
What is applying Accuracy?
200
Timed readings consists of a teacher selecting a passage of 200-300 words from the basal reader, then the student reads aloud for one minute, and the teacher marks errors such as omitted words, inserted words, or substituted words to then calculate the words correct per minute (WCPM = total words read - total errors in a minute).
What is assessing Rate?
200
Fluent readers read a text at an appropriate speed, neither too fast nor too slow, by quickly decoding words, and speedily reading phrases and sentences.
What is Rate?
200
When monitoring oral reading use the teacher model, student practice, and teacher feedback.
What are three components of effective fluency lessons?
200
Systematic and explicit instruction in phonemic awareness, phonics, and sight words is an effective strategy.
What is a specific strategy to build accuracy for young readers?
200
Readers do this by quickly decoding words and secondly, by speedily reading phrases and sentences.
What is applying Rate?
300
During oral reading a teacher can listen for appropriate pitch, response to punctuation, and appropriate characterization.
What is informally assessing Prosody?
300
Fluent readers read with appropriate "expression," and emphasize of certain words, variation in pitch (intonation), and pausing (punctuation), thus reflecting the reader's understanding of the structure of sentences, punctuation, and the author's purpose.
What is Prosody?
300
In the classroom teachers need to monitor oral reading, do repeated reading of the same text, and make the development of fluency an instructional goal.
What are the three instructional strategies that will improve all components of fluency?
300
To build the reading rate, students read aloud to themselves using soft voices, while the teacher moves from child to child monitoring individual performance.
What is Whisper Reading?
300
This reflects a reader's understanding of the structure of sentences, punctuation, and to a larger extent, the author's purpose.
What is applying Prosody?
400
Multidimensional Fluency Scale is a commercially published valid test for expression.
What is assessing Prosody?
400
The goal is swift and accurate reading at all levels of reading development.
What is Automaticity?
400
The teacher can have the student read alone, timed, use tape-assisted reading, or use pair reading with a partner.
What are the formats for repeated reading instruction?
400
Another rate strategy for children with well developed word identification skills is silent reading, if there is accountability for comprehension and if the student is reading an appropriate book.
What is a reading rate strategy for students whose decoding is automatic?
400
Lack of word analysis skills, familiarity with content vocabulary, background knowledge, and familiarity with more complex syntactic structures poses problems for fluency development.
What are the four factors that can disrupt fluency?
500
Assessment results should be standards-based and must go further to determine why children are below expectations.
What is analysis and interpretation of assessments?
500
According to this theory, fluent reading requires the reader to perform two main tasks - decode words and understand the meaning of the text.
What is Automaticity Theory?
500
The development of fluency is feasible at all stages of reading development by swiftly identifying letters, then focusing on single-syllable words with regular letter-sound correspondences and sight words, and finally, swift, accurate reading of multisyllabic words.
When and how should fluency instruction should be introduced?
500
One strategy to build prosody is to get students to move beyond word-by-word reading and to recognize phrases in sentences and read them appropriately.
What is phrase-cued reading?
500
Independent silent reading plays a positive role in developing reading fluency when books are at appropriate reading levels for each student, and by holding students accountable for their comprehension through reading logs, book reports, oral presentations, partner reading/discussion and individual conferences.
What is making independent silent reading more effective in supporting fluency development?
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