Structured literacy
Telling students, "In this word, ch is pronounced 'shh'" is an example of this type of instruction.
What is explicit instruction?
Vocabulary is the volume of words one can understand, use, and this.
What is define?
Background knowledge can be developed, or this, a term for prompting students to access their background knowledge.
What is activated?
This is more impactful than focusing on and using one strategy at a time.
What is using strategy combinations?
This is someone's ability to detect and manipulate the smallest units of language.
What is phonemic awareness?
This is the term for teaching that follows a pre-determined scope and sequence.
Two approaches to vocabulary instruction are teaching whole words, and this.
What is teaching morphology?
Students with strong background knowledge of a topic show comprehension similar to this profile of reader without background knowledge.
What is a strong reader?
The depth of someone's reading comprehension is very difficult to this.
What is assess?
The syllables in the word "cabin" are examples of this type of syllable.
What is a closed syllable?
What is comprehension?
Vocabulary is this type of skill, one that continues to develop over one's lifetime.
What is an unconstrained skill?
In a landmark study, researchers had students read a passage about this sport to test the impact of background knowledge on reading comprehension.
What is baseball?
The impact of strategy instruction more than doubles when coupled with instruction in this.
What is background knowledge?
Reading accuracy, prosody, and rate describe this.
What is fluency?
What is morphology?
Rather than copying a dictionary definition, this is a better approach to vocabulary instruction.
What is using the word in context and/or breaking the word into parts and/or representing the word visually?
This term describes a group of texts on a topic designed to support students' background knowledge.
What is a text set?
The most impactful strategy combination is retelling, using text structure, and this.
What is identifying the main idea?
In developing skilled reading, this precedes fluency.
What is accuracy?
Frequent assessment of a skill that is being targeted is referred to as this practice.
What is progress monitoring?
Words are connecting in the brain via these.
What are semantic networks?
Some types of background knowledge are topic-based knowledge, socio-emotional knowledge, and this.
What is procedural knowledge?
Information about the most impactful strategy combinations came from this type of evidence, where the results of multiple studies are considered.
What is a meta-analysis?
In the Junior grades, this has a bigger impact on students' spelling than phonology.
What is morphological awareness?