This traditional reading approach, where all students read aloud from the same book, regardless of their reading ability, is not a suggested way to increase reading fluency.
What is the round-robin approach?
100
A set of programs and processes that assist in stimulating the basic sensory functions associated with learning. They proven successful in increasing reading skills in students with dyslexia, Autism, and Dyspraxia.
Who is Lindamood-Bell?
100
The following example is an example of a certain type of context clue: Joe was reluctant to take on the position of captain of the basketball team. He was afraid that the time it would take would hurt his grades.
What is an antonym context clue?
100
These are seven reasons for reading.
What are activates prior knowledge, improve decoding skills, build comprehension, enhance vocabulary, strengthen fluency and accuracy, enhance expression, and identify story elements
100
This method of teaching vocabulary involves two key components, the keyword and a visual depiction of the vocabulary word.
What is the keyword method?
200
Reading fluency can be describes as this.
What is the ability to read text accurately, quickly, and with expression?
200
The process of using imagery to help gain comprehension.
What is visualizing and verbalizing?
200
The following sentence is an example of a certain type of context clue: Andrea was a very impertinent young lady. She was so rude that she talked while her teacher was explaining a lesson. She showed no respect for other students. her manners were very poor.
What is a summary context clue?
200
Three popular apps that have proven beneficial for readers.
What are Brain Pop, Aesop's Quest, Auditory Rhyming, and Language TheraAppy?
200
What is a keyword example for "apex"
What is a picture of an ape sitting on top of a mountain?
300
These two assessments are often used to measure reading fluency.
What are the Dibels and Aimsweb?
300
This program utilizes remedial instruction for children that includes two 50-minute one-on-one sessions for 8 weeks.
What is Lindamood-Bell?
300
Research shows that this many exposures to a word are needed before it is internalized.
What is 14-20?
300
By age 3, children from privileged families have heard this many more words than children from poor families.
What is 30 million?
300
The following sentence is a good example of a certain type of meaning: I crashed my car and am "up a creek" .
What is an idiom?
400
This is a reading method where students are asked to read a short passage until they reach at least 90% accuracy. Then the student is allowed to read the passage into a tape recorder. The student then replays the tape and follows along with the text in order to listen to how her reading sounds.
What are Taped Readings?
400
These are sources of information outside of words that readers use to predict the identities and meaning of unknown words.
What are context clues?
400
The oral interpretation of literature presented by readers who bring forth the full expression of the literature through their oral reading.
What is Reader's Theater?
400
Symptoms and definitions
Antonyms or Contrast
Examples
Comparisons
Lists or Series
Cause and Effect
What are context clues?
400
Children expand their vocabulary rate by this number every year.
What is 2,700 to 3,000?
500
Accurate reading depends on the student knowing this percentage of words in the text.
What is 90-95?
500
The following sentence is an example of a certain kind of context clue: After seeing the picture of the starving children, we all felt compassion or pity for their suffering.
What is a synonym context clue?
500
This strategy allows both strong and struggling readers to work together in an environment that promotes sharing information verbally.
What is Reader's Theater?
500
1. Utilize graphic organizers
2. Identify unknown words in a variety of texts by highlighting, underlining, or circling them
What are ways teachers can prepare students to use context clues?
500
This is the single most important thing a teacher can do to promote large scale vocabulary growth in students.