The investigations
E.B.R.I.
What is evidence based reading instruction?
Informs instruction.
What are assessments?
Phonemic Awareness and phonics.
What is alphabetics?
The ability to read text accurately and smoothly.
What is fluency?
The intentional thinking process that occurs as we read.
What is comprehension?
Studies show that students get "stuck" at this level.
What is ABE intermediate level?
Used to evaluate student achievement at the conclusion of a defined instructional period.
What is summative assessment?
Smallest unit of sound in a word.
What is a phoneme?
Helps students move from decoding words to sight reading.
What is fluency?
Word recognition, decoding, fluency, vocabulary, understanding, and background knowledge.
What are the skills needed for reading comprehension?
Opens the doors to students in employment, training, higher ed and lifelong learning.
What is reading?
Wide variety of methods that teachers use to conduct in-process evaluations during a lesson or a tool teachers use to provide feedback to students or to guide instruction.
What is formative instruction?
The knowledge that words are made up of a combination of individual sounds.
What is phonemic awareness?
Oral reading.
What is the best way for students to improve their fluency?
Interacting with text.
What is an active reader?
Practices that have been shown to be successful in improving reading achievement.
What is the definition of EBRI?
Improving students' learning and teachers' teaching as both respond to the information it provides.
What is the purpose of reading assessments?
Relationship between a specific letter and its sound as it relates to the written word.
What is phonics?
Book is too difficult for students to read.
What hinders fluency?
Frustrating and pointless exercise in word calling.
What is reading without comprehension?
Phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary and comprehension.
What are the components of reading?
Central element for any teacher and should be implemented regularly.
What is assessment?
The #1 reason that students have difficulty learning to read.
What is the failure to master phonics?
Practice, practice, practice.
How do you improve fluency?
Sets of steps that good readers use to make sense of text.
What are comprehension strategies?