The level at which a child can be successful with appropriate support. Also called the ZPD.
What is the Zone of Proximal Development?
100
The print we see in everyday life, including signs and logos.
What is environmental print?
100
The 4 key patterns of this type of book are repetition, cumulative sequence, rhyme and rhythm and sequential patterns.
What are predictable books?
100
The ability to read text quickly and accurately.
What is fluency?
100
These assessments analyze student miscues to determine strategies used to decode words.
What are running records?
200
Semantic, syntactic, and graphophonic
What are the three cuing systems
200
The rules and conventions that govern written language, including knowledge of directionality, being able to identify covere, title, letters, words and sentences.
What are concepts of print?
200
The ability to hear, identify and manipulate individual sounds in spoken words.
What is phonemic awareness?
200
This is the component of fluency that is most often overlooked, and includes reading with appropriate expression, intonation and rhythm.
What is prosody?
200
These type of assessments are used on an ongoing basis to inform instruction. Remember "assessment drives instruction!"
What are formative assessments?
300
Consists of background knowledge and past experiences.
What is schema?
300
According to Chall (1983), the characteristics of this stage of reading acquisition include: Becoming aware of sound similarities between words, starts to recognize a few familiar written words, and learns to predict the next part in a familiar story.
What is the Pre-Reading stage?
300
The way of teaching reading and spelling that stresses the symbol-sound relationships.
What is phonics?
300
This fluency strategy involves teacher and students reading a text aloud together.
What is Choral Reading?
300
Consistency and generalizability. In other words, if the same test were given to 1000 students the same number of times, the results would be the same.
What is reliability?
400
The Theory in which Reading is a process where readers actively search for meaning in what they read.
What is constructivism.
400
According to Chall (1983), the characteristics of this stage of reading acquisition include: beginning to read texts to gain information and accelerates vocabulary knowledge.
What is the Reading to Learn stage?
400
In a syllable, the initial consonant or blend and the vowel sound and consonants that follow.
What are onset and rime?
400
The component of fluency that deals with correctly decoding words. It is assessed by measuring the number of miscues against the number of words read correctly.
What is accuracy?
400
This ensures a test measures what it says it measures. The assessment represents the subject being assessed.
What is validity?
500
The study of the links between psychology and language. The belief that reading is primarily a language process. Readers rely on their knowledge about language, and the world in general, to drive their thinking as they engage in the reading process.
What is psycholinguistic theory?
500
According to Chall (1983), the characteristics of this stage of reading acquisition include: learning sound/symbol correspondence (alphabetic principal) and begins applying this knowledge to text.
What is the Decoding stage?
500
This PA task involves the ability to separate a word into its component sounds.
What is sound segmentation?
500
Reading fluency provides a bridge between word recognition (decoding) and this reading skill, which is the terminal objective of reading instruction.
What is reading comprehension?
500
These tests compare students with a sample who are the same age and same grade (used by schools). Seen as grade-equivalent scores or percentiles. One significant weakness is that they are often the single determining factor of achievement.