General Terms
Ability to read words accurately and effortlessly with appropriate expression, phrasing, stress, intonation, and rate.
What is fluency? (7)
A process for making proactive adjustments in order to ensure students meet grade-level expectations.
What is differentiation? (11)
Grade-level instruction, targeted to meet the diverse needs of all learners, provided in a general education classroom.
What is Tier I Instruction? (11)
This provides teachers with information about what children know and are able to do at the beginning of kindergarten to meet individual learning needs.
What is Kindergarten Entry Inventory (KEI)? (5)
A state-wide initiative launched in 2016 by Governor and First Lady Haslam and Commissioner McQueen, to move at least 75% of Tennessee third graders to reading proficiency by 2025.
What is the Read to be Ready campaign? (4)
Refers to a carefully planned sequence for instruction that builds from simple to complex.
What is systematic? (7)
Skills that are learned completely and are universally needed to read and write.
What are constrained skills? (8)
Skills that develop across a lifetime and are not identical for all readers.
What are unconstrained skills? (8)
This is the overall awareness of sounds in an oral language that includes identifying, counting, isolating, segmenting, blending, and manipulating sounds at the word level, syllable level, onset/rime level, and phoneme level.
What is phonological awareness? (7)
Statements summarizing important ideas and core processes that are central to a discipline and have lasting value beyond the classroom.
What is enduring understanding? (12)
These students can accurately, fluently, and independently read a wide range of content-rich, complex texts, can construct interpretations and arguments through speaking and writing, can strategically employ comprehension strategies to analyze key ideas and information, can develop vocabulary, and can build knowledge about the world.
What are proficient readers? (9)
A level of work that appropriately challenges student thinking
What is rigor? (7)