Domain 1
Domain 2
Domain 3
Domain 4
Domain 5
100
Characterized by the strategic and appropriate selection of what skills should be taught, given a child’s level of reading development. This means paying attention to one categories of skills more than the other.
What is a Balanced Instructional Program
100
The ability to apply your knowledge of letter-sound relationships, including knowledge of letter patterns, to correctly pronounce written words.
What is decoding?
100
The clear, easy, written or spoken expression of ideas. Freedom from word-identification problems which might hinder comprehension in silent reading or the expression of ideas in oral reading.
What is fluency.
100
Looking at a part of a word to determine its meaning.
What is morphemic analysis?
100
The ability of a reader to understand the surface meaning of a text and find clearly verifiable answers in the text. In other words, readers are understanding the explicitly stated main ideas, details and more.
What is Literal Comprehension
200
The teacher helps the students achieve ALL the grade-level standards; at each level there are ELA standards in seven different categories
What is a Comprehensive Instructional Program
200
The knowledge of letter-sound correspondences. Often called graphophonic or graphophonemic relationships.
What is phonics?
200
Fluent readers read a text at an appropriate rate of speed, neither too fast nor too slow.
What is rate.
200
A strategy for vocab instruction involving showing students a sentence from a text where the target word appears. During this strategy, students should complete a worksheet where the target word appears at least 4 times.
What is contextual redefinition?
200
The ability of a reader to interpret what he or she has read and find things that are not in the text. The reader must speculate based on the surface meaning of the text
What is Inferential Comprehension
300
a) word analysis, fluency, and systematic vocabulary development, b) reading comprehension c) literary response and analysis, d) writing strategies and writing applications, e) written and oral English language conventions f) listening and speaking strategies, g) speaking applications
What are The Seven Components of the Comprehensive Instructional Program
300
These are examples of what type of alphabetic letters that exclude consonants.
What are vowels?
300
Accuracy, rate, and prosody.
What is key indicators of reading fluency.
300
An oral activity that helps students see the link between written and oral language.
What is oral rehearsal?
300
The ability of a reader to make judgments about what he or she has read. Including, but not limited to, distinguishing between fact and opinion and judging whether the characters did the right thing in the story.
What is Evaluative Comprehension
400
Groups composed of children with different reading abilities
What are Heterogenous Groups
400
These are speech sounds that occur when airflow is obstructed in some way like your mouth, teeth or lips.
What are consonants?
400
Many single-syllable words with regular letter-sound correspondences and only a few, irregular high-frequency words.
What is decodable text.
400
If a student only reads books from one series, a teacher can do this to expand their reading horizons and increase their academic and background knowledge.
What is find a book at a more difficult reading level with similar plots, characters, and setting?
400
Well-planned discussions during and after students read a text can facilitate reading comprehension. Three discussion models include: Instructional conversations, questioning the author, and independent reading.
What is Text-based Discussions
500
Books that can be read easily with little help from the teacher.
What is Independent Reading Level
500
Rimes that have the same spelling or words that share the same phonogram are word families.
What are phonograms?
500
Effective fluency instruction involves frequent oral reading experiences and appropriate guidance from the teacher.
What is systematic explicit instruction.
500
These are four interventions that can be made to help English Learners.
What is find cognates, provide concrete details, build knowledge of English morphemes, and teach English syntax?
500
A structured format for listening comprehension that follows a seven-step sequence. This sequence starts with choosing a text that the students will like, and ends with reviewing target words the very next day.
What is Strategic Read-Alouds
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