Phonemic Awareness
Phonics
Fluency
Vocabulary
Comprehension
100
Blending and segmenting.
What are two critical skills for young children to have in phonemic awareness?
100
The first step in learning to decode words, understanding that letters represent speech sounds in words.
What is the Alphabetic Principle?
100
Translating letters to sounds to words effortlessly and accurately.
What is automaticity?
100
Words that we hear and understand.
What is Listening Vocabulary?
100
Comprehension monitoring, cooperative learning, graphic organizers, question and answer, questions generating, story/text structures, summarizing, and multiple strategy instruction.
What are the eight comprehension strategies the NRP has recommended to teach?
200
Matching a spoken sound to each letter in print and putting sounds together.
What is Blending?
200
The skills learned that help students figure out how to read a word.
What is word identification or word attack skills?
200
Using proper intonation in one's voice while reading.
What is expression?
200
Words we use when we speak.
What is Speaking Vocabulary?
200
This seems to provide the best context for children to improve reading comprehension.
What is classroom discussion?
300
Stretching out the sounds heard in a spoken word and representing each sound with a letter.
What is Segmenting?
300
Research has shown this is the most effective way to teach phonics.
What is explicit or synthetic phonics instruction?
300
Having appropriate reading speed according to the reader's purpose or type of passage.
What is reading rate?
300
Words we identify and understand when we read.
What is Reading Vocabulary?
300
The filing cabinet in our brains we use to store information. This influences how readers comprehend new information.
What is schema or the schema theory?
400
The umbrella term that includes hearing and manipulating larger parts of spoken language.
What is Phonological Awareness?
400
Diagraphs, blends, clusters and dipthongs.
What are phonics skills that should be taught?
400
Reading orally large chunks of text smoothly and without hesitating.
What is Phrasing?
400
Words we use in writing.
What is Writing Vocabulary?
400
All readers benefit from teachers doing this to support comprehension.
What is scaffolding?
500
The pathway to full Phonemic Awareness.
What does the term "top-down" refer to in regards to early reading instruction?
500
This idea uses the reader's knowledge of meaning "chunks" in words rather than using decoding skills.
What is structural analysis?
500
Fluency Formula, Guided Reading, Choral and Paired Reading and Reader's Theatre.
What are some common effective fluency practices?
500
Words the teacher should teach in vocabulary instruction.
What are sight, key and discovery words? Also known as Tier 1,2, and 3 words?
500
These two types of texts must use different types of comprehension strategies.
What are narrative and expository texts?
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