It's Lit!
A body of research based on 20+ years of work.
What is the Science of Reading?
This clearly shows skills from least complex to most complex, starting with CVC words and progressing to blends/digraphs, complex vowels, complex consonants, and finally multisyllabic words.
What is the phonics continuum?
The number of vocabulary words to introduce within a text reading or lesson.
Two Words: (1) Reading words correctly. (2) Reading words automatically at an appropriate rate.
What is accuracy and automaticity?
Teacher verbal modeling that makes thinking visible to students. Often leads with "I Language." Shows students steps to building understanding.
What is think-aloud?
Systematic & Cumulative
Explicit
Diagnostic
What is Structured Literacy?
The ability to think about, combine, and segment INDIVIDUAL sounds in SPEECH.
What is phonemic awareness?
global awareness of large chunks of speech -phonological awareness
an understanding of letter-sound relationships - phonics
Spoken language that includes speaking and listening.
What is oral language?
THIS has a direct impact on comprehension.
What is fluency?
The hints and clues that helps a reader gain a deep understanding of text. It goes beyond surface details.
What is inference?
Structed Literacy is for....
What is ALL students!
The BIG THREE of phonemic awareness that must be taught and is highly predictive of reading success. Matt Burns refers to these elements as the trinity.
What are isolating, blending, and segmenting?
High utility words that are found across domains. Instruction geared toward these vocabulary words can be most productive.
What are Tier 2 words?
Reading the words with expression, phrasing, smoothness, tone, pitch, volume, emphasis, and punctuation.
What is prosody?
Reading comprehension consists of these three elements.
What are text, reader, and activity?
The theoretical model that shows the interwoven components of reading.
What is Scarborough's Reading Rope?
The mapping of sounds to letters that helps students add words to long-term memory for automatic retrieval. The GLUE that bonds words to memory.
What is orthographic mapping?
The study of the smallest units of meaning and how parts are combined to form words.
What is morphology?
A classroom routine that includes partner fluency practice AND summarization.
What is Partner Reading Paragraph Shrinking?
Any information that provides clarification to help understanding of new material. An important part of planning for instruction.
What is background knowledge?
Reviewed research on reading and provided guidance on the science of teaching, teacher training, and effective instruction.
What is the National Reading Panel?
The overlapping phases of reading acquisition. It helps us instruct students on the way to proficient reading.
What are Ehri's Phases of Word Reading Development?
Pre; Early; Later; Consolidated Alphabetic
The way of thinking and the use of tools for a particular discipline with embedded literacy strategies.
What is disciplinary literacy?
A way to chunk text into meaningful units that naturally go together. Good readers make meaning in this way.
What is phrasing?
The most complex level of understanding.
Level 3 - Evaluative Mental Model of Text
Level 1 - Literal Surface Code
Level 2 - Inferential Textbase