Characteristics
Word Study
Comprehension
Fluency
Writing & MISC
100
The bulk of students who are beginner readers are at this grade.
What is 1st grade?
100
Percentage of time spent on Word Study.
What is 20%?
100
Percentage of time spent on Comprehension.
What is 20%?
100
Percentage of time spent on Fluency.
What is 40%?
100
What students write for when writing. They are focussed on-
What is sound and meaning?
200
Description of how students sound when reading.
What is laborious or sound by sound?
200
AKA word families and/or phonograms?
What is Rime?
200
A Comprehension strategy that involves students making predictions and summarizing the story at planned stopping points.
What is a DLTA or Directed Reading Thinking Activity?
200
Success in reading, automatic word recognition, and making reading happen are examples of this-
What are the goals of fluency instruction?
200
When students write the most salient sounds and/or use letter names to spell out their words often results in this-
What is Invented Spelling?
300
What beginner readers should do to self monitor their reading and to help get their mouth ready when stuck on a word.
What is point or track?
300
What these words share- clap, clip, cluck, cliff
What is Onset?
300
When teachers model what good readers do while reading. Examples include asking questions, visualizing, making connections, etc.
What is a Think Aloud?
300
The most support a teacher can give a child when reading.
What is echo reading?
300
I Do, We Do, & You Do are part of this-
What is the GRR or Gradual Release of Responsibility?
400
Beginner readers have the inability to read like this.
What is silently?
400
Groups of letters that have one phoneme.
What is a digraph?
400
A graphic organizer set up in a matrix to show characteristics of many different things. Plus and minuses are often used.
What is a Semantic Feature Analysis?
400
The goal of words in a student's Word Bank?
What is 150-200 words?
400
Words studied at this stage include long vowels and multisyllabic words. (True or False)
What is False. They focus on single syllabic and often CVC words.
500
The type of books (LEVEL) read by beginner readers.
What is PrePrimer and Primer books?
500
These words are examples of this- -mp as in bump & -nd as in sand
What are Preconsonantal Nasals?
500
An early beginner reader strategy where students cover the words in the text and focus on only the graphics.
What is a Picture Walk?
500
A teaching tool used in many classrooms where the teacher adds 3-5 words per week and provides practice for her students to interact with it.
What is a Word Wall?
500
When students are not on grade level and have a hard time catching up to their peers is referred to as this-
What is the Matthew Effect?