Fluency
Word Identification
Reading Theories etc.
Potpourrie
Comprehension
100
WCPM
What is words correct per minute.
100
Two consonants together that keep their own sounds.
What is a consonant blend?
100
Wait until children are ready to read to begin literacy learning.
What is Reading Readiness?
100
Print children see around them everywhere.
What is environmental print?
100
Teacher and students share their thoughts about a story.
What is a think aloud?
200
Everyone reads the same text at the same time.
What is Choral Reading?
200
The part of the word that includes the vowel and following letters.
What is a rime?
200
Focus on phonics instruction.
What is Bottom Up Theory?
200
The teacher listens to the child read and keeps a record of mistakes.
What is a Running Record?
200
A chart showing the events of a story in a causal chain.
What is a flow chart?
300
Reading with feeling and intonation.
What is prosody.
300
Students fill words into blanks in a text.
What is cloze?
300
The most informative predictor of reading success.
What is phonemic awareness?
300
The teacher listens to the children's stories, writes them down in their language and uses that for instruction.
What is Language Experience Story?
300
Children react to questions about a story in a notebook.
What is a response journal?
400
Text that a setting that is familiar and natural language. Readers usually know what comes next.
What is Predictable Text?
400
The smallest unit of spoken language.
What is a phone?
400
Children should be exposed to literacy learning as early as possible.
What is Emergent Literacy?
400
Proof that a test measures what you want it to.
What is validity?
400
A way to give children support while they are learning.
What is scaffolding?
500
Students take over the role of teacher.
What is reciprocal teaching?
500
Children can identify words immediately and quickly.
What is automaticity?
500
Children read a list of graded words while the teacher listens.
What is an IRI?
500
Word identification that needs assistance.
What is mediated identification?
500
Students talk about an issue from a story and come to a conclusion.
What is a discussion web?