This approach connects sounds with letters in writing.
What is phonics through spelling?
100
Small units of sound in language.
What is a phoneme?
100
This development is an ongoing process that continues throughout one's "reading life".
What is vocabulary development?
100
The readers ability to read with speed, accuracy and expression.
What is fluency?
100
Aspect of reading that all others serve to create?
What is comprehension?
200
This approach to phonics instruction attacks words from the top down. A word is identified as a whole unit and then its letter-sound connection are parsed out.
What is Analytic Phonics?
200
This requires the reader to connect a series of phonemes together to create a word.
What is phoneme blending?
200
This involves someone telling you how a word is pronounced and what its meaning is.
What is explicit instruction?
200
The "speed" through a piece of text.
What is fluid pace
200
Putting words together and using prior knowledge.
What is to develop meaning of comprehension?
300
In this approach, readers are taught to first connect letters to their corresponding phonemes (sound unit) and then to blend those together to create a word.
What is Synthetic Phonics?
300
The reader parsing out the individual sounds in a word
What is phoneme isolation?
300
This approach to teaching vocabulary gives "hints" contained in a text that help a reader figure out the meaning of an unfamiliar word.
What are context clues?
300
Monitoring the amount of words students can read in a specific period of time.
What is Synthetic, Analytic, and phonics through spelling?
400
Readers break words into their corresponding phonemes to figure out the new word.
What is phoneme segmentation?
400
The approach that "someone" might be a teacher, a dictionary, a vocabulary guide or any other resource offering definitions and pronunciations.
What is explicit instruction?
400
They do not have the ability to decode very well.
What is the most common reason a students is not yet a fluent reader?
400
When a reader is asking and answering questions about the story and summarizing what she has read.
What is actively engaged?
500
To help beginning readers understand how letters are linked to sounds to form letter-sound correspondences and spelling patterns and to help them learn how to apply this knowledge in their reading.
What is the primary focus of phonics instruction?
500
This relies on the reader's general knowledge of phonemes to identify sound patterns in words.
What is phoneme identification?
500
This approach includes other words in a sentence or paragraph, text features, illustrations, graphs and charts.
What are context clues?
500
The developmental process that connects decoding with everything we know about words to make the meaning of the text come to life