Comprehension
Assessment
Definitions
Stages & More
Luck of the Draw
100
Comprehension strategy where story's title is placed in a circle in the center of the diagram and characters, events, and locations are placed in satellite positions around it. Lines show relationships.
What is story mapping
100
1. In isolation - spelling tesst 2. In context - everyday writing
What are two ways of assessing spelling?
100
Speech sound that signals difference in meaning - smallest unit of speech.
What is a phoneme?
100
1. literal 2. inferential 3. evaluative
What are 3 levels of comprehension?
100
Phonemic awareness skill - most difficult i.e., pig - /p/, /i/, /g/.
What is sound segmentation?
200
Comprehension strategy that is an outline. A common template for a story grammar would look like this: Setting: Problem: Event 1: Event 2: Event 3: Resulution:
What is story grammars?
200
Yopp Singer Assessment Test - a test used to assess phoneme segmentation. In this assessment the teacher says 22 words. The child must provide each sound of the word in order. So, when the teacher says dog, the correct response is /d/, /o/, /g/.
What is one way you can assess phonemic awareness?
200
The letters that represent phonemes.
What is a grapheme?
200
Fourth stage: spells almost all correctly - mistakes occur only when spelling new words.
What is conventional?
200
Students share experience to teacher and dictate to adult who records it verbatim, read story together.
What is language experience approach?
300
Comprehension strategy which is easy to complete. Students just fill in the blanks.
What is a story frame?
300
Used to determine student's comprehension of text - passage of 275 words, delete 50 - must fill in.
What is CLOZE?
300
Rimes that have the same spelling - word families i.e., cate, bat, fat.
What is a phonogram?
300
Third stage: know orthographic patterns - all sounds have letters - mistakes do occur.
What is transitional?
300
1. intertextual connections 2. personal connections 3. test-to-word connections
What is connections to literature?
400
Comprehension strategy involving identifying the main ideas and retelling.
What is summarizing?
400
Assess separate elements of oral language and writing.
What is Discrete Assessment?
400
Glided vowel sounds made by voel combinations i.e., oil, coil, boy.
What is a dipthong?
400
1. prephonetic 2. phonetic 3. transitional 4. conventional
What are spelling stages?
400
Print carries meaning - directionality and tracking - book orientation.
What is concepts about print?
500
Comprehension strategy where children record their thoughts about what they have read and generate questions, speculate and summarize.
What is a learning log?
500
Multiple criteria and sums for total - e.g., 1-5 on capitalization, spelling, topic sentences, conclusion.
What is Analytic Quantitative Assessment?
500
Two individual letters that together make 1 sound i.e., /ch/, /sh/, /th/.
What is a digraph?
500
First Stage: - do not write at least 1 letter per sound - some sounds not represented 1 - precommunicative 2- semiphonetic.
What is pre-phonetic?
500
1. plot 2. setting 3. characters 4. figurative language 5. mood/tone/style
What are story elements?
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