Skills that begin to develop in the preschool
years, such as alphabet knowledge, phonological awareness,
letter writing, print knowledge, and oral language.
What is early literacy?
200
The ability to hear and manipulate sounds.
What is phonemic awareness?
200
A teacher looks more deeply at a student's strengths and needs.
What is diagnostic testing?
200
The print of everyday life, such as the
letters, numbers, shapes, and colors found in logos and signs for products and stores (e.g., Coke and McDonald’s).
What is environmental print?
300
A rime
What is the part of a syllable that contains the vowel and all that follows it?
300
A regular check on how students are doing. It is conducted at least three times a year.
What is progress monitoring?
300
The ability to produce or comprehend spoken
language, including vocabulary or grammar
What is oral language?
400
Repeated reading, choral reading and partner reading
What are ways to help students become fluent readers?
400
Specific research and/or evidence based strategies that are designed to address very specific issues and problems that children are experiencing with learning.
What are interventions?
400
The knowledge of print conventions (e.g., left-right, front-back) and concepts (e.g., book cover, author, and text).
What is concepts about print?
500
Systematic and explicit phonics instruction is more effective than non-systematic or no phonics instruction.
What does scientifically-based research tell us about phonics instruction?
500
Core phonics, DIBELS, PAST and DRA
What are examples of assessments?
500
Knowing the names and sounds associated with printed letters.