The 5 Pillars
What are the 5 Pillars of Reading identified by the National Reading Panel?
Phonological Awareness, Phonics, Fluency, Vocabulary, and Comprehension
How many phonemes are in the word ship?
3 (/sh/ /i/ /p/)
True or False: Students should use picture clues before sounding out words.
False.
Understanding word meanings and relationships
What is Reading Comprehension?
What’s the heart of effective reading instruction according to the Science of Reading?
Explicit, systematic, and sequential teaching
Which pillar focuses on the ability to hear and manipulate individual sounds in spoken words?
Phonological Awareness
A hands-on strategy to incorporate in Phonological Awareness instruction
What are Elkonin Boxes
What type of text provides controlled, decodable practice?
What are decodable texts?
Give one effective way to teach new vocabulary.
Pre-teach with explicit instruction, visuals, repeated exposure, and student-friendly definitions
True or False: The brain is hardwired to read just like it is for speaking.
False.
Which pillar teaches the relationship between letters and sounds?
Phonics
An explicit Phonemic Awareness program that spans Pre-K through upper elementary?
What is Heggerty?
It is often stated that fluency aids...
What is comprehension?
What are the two biggest contributors to reading comprehension according to the Simple View of Reading?
Decoding and language comprehension
What are the six syllable types taught in structured literacy?
Closed, open, silent e, vowel team, r-controlled, consonant-le
What does fluency allow readers to do more of while reading?
Focus on comprehension rather than decoding
Name one activity that builds phonological awareness.
Rhyming, segmenting, blending, isolation, deletion, alliteration, etc.
Words read from memory activated by pronounciation and meaning
Sight Words
Predicting, Summarizing, Questioning, Inferring, Comparing and Contrasting, etc.
What are Explicit Reading Comprehension Strategies?
Name one way to differentiate phonics instruction.
Small groups, data-based pacing, targeted word lists
Which pillar is most directly linked to making meaning from text?
Reading Comprehension
Which comes first in instruction—phonological awareness or phonics?
Phonological awareness
The three parts that make up fluency
What are accuracy, rate, and expression?
What are 4 Story Elements?
Character, Setting, Problem, and Solution
Engages visual, auditory, and kinesthetic pathways
What is multisensory?