Phonological Awareness
a strategy used when you use markers and place them in a boxes - used to segment words by phonemes.
What is Elkonin Boxes
Rapid, automatic, word recognition
What is automaticity?
Child-friendly definitions help children understand words in a meaningful context.
What is metacognition?
The vocabulary one can use appropriately in speech and can understand when heard aloud.
What is oral vocabulary?(Expressive and Receptive)
90-94% accuracy
This is the student’s zone of proximal development where small group instruction or individual instruction is appropriate.
What is the instructional level.
Children recognize individual sounds in a word.
Teacher: What is the first sound in van?
What is phoneme isolation
When two vowels are together in a word and each vowel makes a sound.
What is a dipthong?
Visual “maps” or diagrams that help the reader organize the information
they read. A story map is one type
What is a graphic organizer?
A strategy that visually displays the relationship among words and helps to define them and categorize them.
What is semantic mapping?
a simple word from which you can build a family of words around it. If you start with “place” you can say places, placing, placings, replace, placement, etc.
What is a base word?
Two words that sound the same at the end
What is rhyming.
Semantics (meaning), Syntax (structure) and Phonics (visual)
What are the three Reading Cueing Systems
words that appear frequently in students' reading and writing. They need to be memorized:
What is a sight word?
Teaching vocabulary improves students’ _______.
What is comprehension?
When a short word (or syllable) with one vowel letter ends in a consonant, the vowel sound is usually short.
What is a Closed syllable
When children combine individual phonemes to form words,
What is blending
What would make sense?
Does that make sense?
What is Meaning (semantics)
Information that is implied within the text, but not
directly or explicitly stated (reading between the lines)
What is inferential level of comprehension.
•Read Alouds (NAEP)
•Wide Independent Reading
•High-quality Classroom language
•Word-Learning Strategies • Explicit Vocabulary Instruction
What are strategies for teaching new vocabulary words effectively.
in, un, dis
What is a prefix?
How many sounds in the word B,L,A,S,T? The teacher is developing this phoneme skill.
What is phoneme segmentation?
There is a strong relationship between the letter and the sound we expect it to represent.
Consonants represent the dominant sounds in words.
What are useful generalization about consonants
Activating and building this upon prior knowledge and experiences text to self, text to text and text to world
What is schema?
A novel word that is often called this - academic vocabulary
What is a tier 2 word
suffix pronounced /shun/ can be spelled several ways
What is sion, tion, cian?