Phonemic Awareness
This is the program that our school uses to practice phonemic awareness skills.
What is Heggerty?
This is the program that our school uses as the main source of phonics instruction.
What is UFLI?
This is an assessment tool that our school uses 3 times a year in grades 2-6 to assess fluency.
What are oral reading fluency assessments?
These are the 3-4 specific things a teacher carefully chooses when preparing a read aloud.
What are vocabulary words?
This is the end goal of all of the pillars of the Science of Reading.
What is comprehension?
This is when students put all the sounds in a word together.
What is blending?
This is a pattern that we refer to when we see a word that has a consonant-vowel-consonant pattern.
What is a cvc pattern?
This is the speed at which students read words correctly.
What is rate?
This is the first kind of vocabulary students acquire. It is also the words we need to know to understand what we hear.
What is listening vocabulary?
This is the type of text you use with students that is written to inform. Examples could be science or social studies texts.
What are informational texts?
This is the name of the individual sounds in words.
What are phonemes?
These types of endings include -s, -es, -ed, and -ing.
What are inflectional endings?
This is the number of words students read correctly.
What is accuracy?
This is the second kind of vocabulary students acquire. It consists of the words we use when we speak.
What is speaking vocabulary?
Examples of this type of text are: folktales, legends, fables, fantasy, and realistic fiction.
What are literary texts?
This is when students takes apart the sounds in a word.
What is segmenting?
Some examples of these include: ea, oo, oa, ai, eigh, oi, ou
What are vowel teams?
This is the fast, effortless word recognition that comes with repeated reading practice.
What is automaticity?
This is the third type of vocabulary students acquire. It is the words we need to know to understand what we read.
What is reading vocabulary?
This is the general term for the way information can be organized after reading. It is used to focus on the main ideas and key details.
What is a graphic organizer?
This is when students can match the ending sounds of words.
What is rhyming?
This is a vowel sound in an unstressed syllable, where a vowel does not make its long or short vowel sound. The symbol for it is an upside down letter e.
What is a schwa?
This is the timing, phrasing, emphasis, and intonation that readers use to help convey meaning and make their speech lively.
What is prosody?
This is the last vocabulary skill students acquire. It consists of the words students use in writing.
What is writing vocabulary?
This is when someone, like a teacher, shares their thinking about their thinking.
What is metacognition?