Need to Know Definitions
Assessments
Language Knowledge
Strategies to Support Reading
Phonics and Word Knowledge
100

The initial consonant sound of a syllable

What is Onset?

100

An assessment's purpose is to

What is to monitor the effectiveness of instruction?

100

Two closely pronounced vowel sounds

What is Diphthong?

100

Features in the classroom that support literacy

What is labels, class libraries, writing center, and environmental print?

100

English has this kind of orthography

What is Deep?

200

Rhythmic pulses in words

What is a Syllable?

200

A running record is considered this kind of assessment

What is Less formal?

200

Vowels in stressed syllables tend to be this

What is long/tense or short/lax?

200

The year the No Child Left Behind Act was established

What is 2001?

200

Prefixes and suffixes are

What is Derivational morphemes?

300

Vowel sound + following consonant sounds

What is rime?

300

A test that measures what it claims to measure

What is validity?

300

These are three types of writing systems

What are Ideographic, Syllabic, and Alphabetic?

300

Families in emergent literacy can participate by

What is home books and book baggies?

300

Effective teachers do this to help students read words in context

What is demonstration and modeling, teacher talk, comparing and contrasting words, and questioning?

400

Refers to rules that order words and their inflections meaningfully in sentences

What is Syntax?


400

This type of assessment takes place while instruction is happening

What is formative assessment?

400

Morphemic awareness does this

What is aids word recognition, aids reading comprehension, and supports spelling development?

400

This theory dominated the 1970s and 80s

What is whole language approach?

400

Approaches to assessing word recognition include

What is Informal reading inventories, tests of phonics knowledge, and nonsense word tests?

500

These three tiers are referred to as:

Tier 1 words-high frequency vocab
Tier 2 words-academic vocab with wide utility
Tier 3 words-high specialized, discipline-specific vocab

What is Lexical Knowledge Tiers?

500

Qualitative approaches can be used to estimate this

What is Text difficulty?

500

Syntax is needed for reading comprehension at these two levels

What is sentence level and discourse level?

500

Common Core State Standards are

What is designed to ensure that students are college and career ready?

500

Children in the Logographic Phase do this

What is recognizing familiar words as whole displays?