National Reading Panel
What are the five components that the National Ready Panel Identified as components of effective literacy instruction?
phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension
What is the first thing you should do when you begin working with a student?
Assess! (Diagnostic)
The simple view of reading states that readings is comprised of _______ and _________.
The simple view of reading states that readings is comprised of decoding and comprehension.
What is the best way to determine if a student has dyslexia?
How they respond to evidence based instruction
A second-grade teacher would like to include independent silent reading as one of several approaches used to promote students' fluency development. When planning differentiated fluency instruction for individual students in the class, the teacher should keep in mind that using independent silent reading to promote fluency:
a. is most effective when students select texts at or above their instructional reading level.
b. should be limited to students who have already acquired automaticity.
b. should be limited to students who have already acquired automaticity.
Define phonemic awareness.
Being able to distinguish the individual sounds (phonemes).
Give an example of being explicit at the beginning of a lesson on vocabulary.
Today we will learn what the words ____, ____, and _____ mean.
This rope illustrates all of the discreet skills in language comprehension and word recognition.
Scarborough's Rope OR The Reading Rope
Dyslexia is primarily due to a ___________ ____________ deficit
Dyslexia is primarily due to a phonological processing deficit
A fourth-grade student who reads grade- level narrative texts with fluency and excellent comprehension is struggling to read aloud a grade-level content-area passage about a topic with which the student is familiar. The student reads the passage hesitantly, frequently stopping to reread clauses or entire sentences. Afterward, the student demonstrates limited comprehension of what was read. Which of the following factors is most likely disrupting the student's fluent reading of this text?
a. lack of experience with the academic-language structures used in the text
b. insufficient monitoring of comprehension while reading the text
a. lack of experience with the academic-language structures used in the text
Define phonics
Teaching sound symbol correspondence in order to sound out words
To be systematic you should follow a ___________ and __________.
To be systematic you should follow a scope and sequence.
This is phase is used to describe someone who has no concept of letter/sound correspondence
True or false: the profile of a striving reader and someone who has dyslexia may be very similar
Lately, when choosing a book to read, a third grader who reads at grade level always selects books from a series that is written in a very formulaic style that does little to extend his conceptual or language development. The teacher's best response to this behavior would be to:
a. avoid interfering with the student's selection of books as long as he finds his choices enjoyable.
b. provide the student with books with similar themes or on similar topics that are more challenging for him.
c. advise the student that he should choose books that will prepare him for the more difficult reading he will encounter in fourth grade.
provide the student with books with similar themes or on similar topics that are more challenging for him.
What are 3-4 instructional steps for effective vocabulary instruction?
1. provide student friendly definition
2. use in multiple contexts
3. provide oral practice
4. provide written practice
5. link to other vocabulary words
A scope and sequence should progress from __________ to ____________.
A scope and sequence should progress from simple to complex.
This phase is used to describe someone who is using complete sound/symbol correspondences other than sound out words
Full alphabetic
True or false: dyslexia exists on a continuum. True or false: Instruction for students with dyslexia and someone who is behind in reading are different.
True. False
A teacher substitutes blank spaces for several nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs in an appropriate level text and asks students to determine reasonable and logical words to complete each blank. This technique is useful as an informal assessment of students' understanding of English language structures primarily because it requires them to:
a. select appropriate words based on their grammatical function as well as on their meaning.
b. draw on grammatical knowledge to identify the subjects and predicates of complex sentences.
c. define various grammatical categories in their own words.
a. select appropriate words based on their grammatical function as well as on their meaning.
When teaching comprehension it is important to consider the text type: _________ or __________ AND use of ________________ AND how much ___________ ______________ one has.
When teaching comprehension it is important to consider the text type: NARRATIVE or EXPOSITORY AND use of STRATEGIES AND how much BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE one has.
1. phonics- phonics survey that targets specific patterns
2. fluency- BRI timed passage reading
3. comprehension- BRI questions/MAZE
4. Core Vocabulary Assessment- informal vocabulary assessment
This phase is used to describe someone whose attention is completely on the meaning of words
Automatic
A teacher tells you she suspects someone in her class has dyslexia what do you do? (Name 3 possible things)
1. Ask what instruction she is currently using?
2. Ask to observe
3. Ask her to refer the student for an IEP
4. Provide her with information on intensifying her instruction if she needs it
A 5th grade student is reading a text about the formation of crystals. Before she begins reading she asks her teacher to see a picture of a crystal. After the student reads the text she misses 3 out of 4 comprehension questions. The student's difficulty with comprehension is most likely due to.
Background knowledge