Alphabetics
Fluency
Vocabulary
Research Base
Potluck
100
These cubes can be used to help students build words from syllables.
What are syllable dice?
100
These are the three parts of fluency.
What are accuracy, rate and prosody?
100
Tier 1 are concrete words, Tier 2 are abstract words that cut across academic areas and Tier 3 words are content specific like photosynthesis and quorum.
What are the three word tiers?
100
This has been modelled and mentioned many times throughout the course. We should use this teaching technique in evidence based reading instruction.
What is direct and explicit instruction?
100
Alphabetics, fluency, vocabulary and comprehension
What are the four components of reading?
200
This is the process readers use to decode printed words into meaningful, spoken words.
What is alphabetics?
200
Also called popcorn reading, students read a few sentences and then pass off to other students and the instructor.
What is collaborative oral reading?
200
This is how many words one knows and how well one knows a word. You need both words to get this one right!
What are depth and breadth of vocabulary?
200
I am one of the two main studies on which evidence based reading instruction is based.
What are Research Based Principles for Adult Basic Education Reading Instruction (Kruidenier) and Applying Research in reading Instruction for Adults (McShane).
200
This is the goal of reading.
What is understanding what you read?
300
Collaborative Oral Reading
What is a technique I can use to help students practice their alphabetics skills.
300
I am a low cost source for getting a classroom set of books for my students to do collaborative oral reading.
What is the ABSPD lending library?
300
This is one place I can go on the Internet to find pre made vocabulary lessons.
What are the ABSPD website, The Adult Learning Resource Center, and ATLAS.
300
TABE, CASAS and other assessments only measure this.
What is silent reading ability?
300
I am an example of how one component of reading affects another.
Multiple answers here.
400
Since a reader has to spend so much time sounding out words, her reading is choppy and not fluid.
What is how alphabetics affects fluency?
400
In this technique, the instructor selects a text to be read aloud and reads the first sentence. The learner echoes it. Each sentence in the paragraph is read this way. Then the instructor reads the entire paragraph, and the student echoes it.
What is echo reading?
400
Research says these are two ineffective ways to teach students vocabulary.
What are using the dictionary and using context to get the meaning?
400
This is the only way I will really find out where students have weaknesses in reading.
What are diagnostic assessments in alphabetics, fluency, vocabulary and comprehension?
400
Explanation Modeling Guided Practice Independent Practice This is also known as I do, We do, and You do.
What are the four steps in explicit instruction?
500
Megawords
What is a resource that can help instructors teach alphabetics skills?
500
For readers struggling with good prosody, the instructor can mark meaningful phrases in the text. The instructor then models how to read the passage aloud. Then the learner reads the marked text and gets feedback. Then the learner marks a copy of the same text on their own.
What are marked phrase boundaries?
500
After I teach vocabulary words with direct instruction where the instructor and students supply context, here are four activities I can do to help students learn the word.
What are fill in the blank, sentence completion, yes/no/why, and read and respond?
500
1. A student has weaknesses in alphabetics, fluency and vocabulary. 2. A student has a specific weakness in reading comprehension.
What are two ways a student can have a weakness in reading comprehension?
500
This strategy ends classroom turbulence. New students can only enter class at certain times during the year.
What is managed enrollment or managed intake?
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