Science of Reading
Foundation for Literacy
Reading Strategies
Reading Fluency
Language Comprehension
100

An approach to teaching reading that is based on decades of research and evidence.

What is the Science of Reading?

100

Words that have the same ending sound.

What is Rhyming?

100

Part of a word including the vowel and the letters that follow.

What is the Rime?

100

The ability to read a text accurately, quickly, and with appropriate expression.

What is Reading fluency?

100

The amount of information or knowledge someone has on a particular topic.

What is Background Knowledge?

200

Phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension.

What are the 5 components of the science of reading?


200

Count every word in the sentence.

What is Sentence Segmentation?

200

Part of a single-syllable word before the vowel.

What is the Onset?

200

The rhythms and patterns of sounds in spoken language; expression.

What is Prosody?

200

Teaching word meanings significantly improves students...

What is Vocabulary Knowledge?

300

The fluent execution of word recognition and language comprehension.

What is Skilled Reading?

300

A punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information, in this case, they separate phonemes.

What is a Virgule?

300

A unit of pronunciation that contains a single sound.

What is a syllable?

300

The ability to read quickly and accurately without conscious effort.

What is Automaticity?

300

The recognition that the markings on a page correspond to spoken language and are structured in a specific manner.

What is Print Awareness?

400

The strands work together as the reader becomes accurate, fluent, and increasingly automatic with repetition and practice.

What is Scarborough’s Reading Rope?

400

The smallest unit of spoken language.

What is a Phoneme?

400

The ability to take letter-sound knowledge and be able to blend those sounds together to make words.

What is Decoding?

400

The ability to quickly identify and read commonly used words without relying on decoding strategies.

What is Sight Recognition?

400

Understanding words and language so you can understand things better and make logical conclusions.

What is Verbal Reasoning?

500

A theory that attempts to define the skills that contribute to early reading comprehension.

What is the Simple View of Reading?

500

An umbrella term that includes the awareness of the larger parts of spoken words, syllables, and onsets and rimes-as well as the smaller parts, phonemes.

What is Phonological Awareness?

500

A way to teach in a direct, structured , and systematic way.

What is Explicit Instruction?

500

Sight recognition encompasses the ability to recognize and read high-frequency words that do not necessarily follow phonetic rules.

What is Sight Vocabulary?

500

Structure, Semantics, Syntax, Morphology, Pragmatic, Discourse, Grammar

What are the parts of Language Structure?

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