Phonics
The number of syllables in the phrase "Continuous Improvement"
What is seven?
Individual sounds
What are phonemes?
A pre-reading strategy that encourages students to think about what will happen in the story before reading it
What is Predicting?
What is comprehension?
The ability to listen and understand language
What is Receptive?
An instructional method using boxes that segment words into individual sounds
What is Elkonin Boxes?
The process of breaking a whole word into parts
What is segmenting?
What happened and why something happened as a result
What is cause and effect?
This strategy involves re-reading short passages aloud
What is repeated reading?
The ability to use language to communicate thoughts, feelings and ideas
What is Expressive Language?
Another name for letter symbols
What are graphemes?
In the word PLAY, the new word you get if you delete the L
What is PAY?
Characters, setting, plot are examples of this
What is Story structure/elements?
This type of daily instruction includes a teacher modeling how good reading sounds
What is a read-aloud?
Before writing emerges, a teacher may wish to improve the ability of a child to make movements of his small muscles in his hands and wrists
What is fine motor?
Any consonant presented before a vowel in a syllable
What is an onset?
Repetition of the initial consonant sound of several different words
What is alliteration?
Using the main idea to determine what is most important in a story
What is summarizing?
This kind of literature has rhythm and cadence that support fluency
What is poetry?
Having this kind of "rich" environment emerges a child into the world of words
What is Print-Rich environment?
Any vowel and consonants followed by an onset
What is a rime?
The number of phonemes in the word "STAR"
What is four?
A term defined as "thinking about thinking"
What is Metacognition?
Timing, intonation and expression
What is prosody?
This type of reader may recognize a few sounds and words but shows interest in books and pictures