Reading Assessments and Phonological and Phonemic Awareness
Describe the concept of flexible grouping
Groups are flexible because they exist for a single purpose and will be disbanded as soon as the teacher has completed the lessons planned for the group. The students in the group share a common need that the lessons are designed to meet.
Logographic language uses symbols to represent sounds. Alphabetic languages uses this
What are letters?
Name one factor that can disrupt fluency?
weak word analysis skills,
lack of familiarity with content vocabulary,
lack of background knowledge,
lack of familiarity with more complex syntactic structures
What should a reader have developed in order to comprehend a text?
1) meaning vocabulary
2) academic language knowledge
3) background knowledge
Prior to reading, children will have better comprehension if their teacher helps them activate background knowledge by these two strategies.
What are KWL charts and what is PreP (prereading plan) strategies
Define an informal reading inventory
A collection of assessments given to students individually based on each student's reading level
These two methods are recommended for teaching letter recognition to young struggling readers.
What are tactile and kinesthetic methods?
When selecting spelling words to teach, what types of words should be taught to students?
words with common orthographic patterns, high frequency words, common need words, content area words, and words that relate to each other (ex. synonyms/antonyms)
What can be a factor of poor comprehension in a text?
Lack of background knowledge of the topic
A category or type of literature.
What is genre?
What does SSR stand for?
Sustained Silent Reading
This approach for the direct, explicit teaching of phonics starts with the big picture- by looking at a sentence, then the individual words, then the sound-symbol relationships
What is whole-to-part phonics instruction?
What are three indicators of fluent reading?
accuracy, rate, prosody
What kind of activities, especially in social studies and science will enhance a child’s vocabulary, which in turns aid comprehension?
Oral language activities
Comprehension instruction of expository texts should be differentiated for these three groups
What is struggling readers, English learners, and advanced learners.
Define Phonological Awareness
Is the knowledge that oral English is composed of smaller units
An LEA approach requires the student to share an experience by dictating the account to an adult, allowing the student to see meaning in the text.
What is a Language Experience Approach?
A CLOSE test will determine if a text is what three reading levels?
independent, instructional, or frustration reading level
Semantic Maps are also known as?
What is world maps
The common structure in science textbooks
A: What is cause and effect?
Do all assessments done by a teacher measure what it claims to measure? Are they valid?
No, in some cases the results of the assessments are invalid because students already have the background knowledge.
This analytic critique looks at a student's spelling to see what they are consistently writing incorrectly
What is the pattern of error?
How can you make independent reading more effective in supporting fluency development?
Provide books at correct reading level
Hold students accountable for comprehension
Have high interest, engaging books
What is one learning strategy that students can use independently while reading?
1) Morphemic analysis
2) Contextual analysis
3) Using the dictionary
This is used to improve comprehension of expository texts
What are text structures?