This is understanding that the squiggly lines on a page represent spoken language. They understand that when adults read a book, what they say is linked to the words on the page, rather than to the pictures.
What is emergent literacy or awareness of print?
100
the ability to read a text accurately and quickly. It frees students to understand what they read.
What is fluency?
100
A word which is spelled & pronounced identically to another, but has a different meaning.(Swimming POOL- POOL table).
What are homonyms?
100
A broad skill that includes identifying and manipulating units of oral language-parts such as words, syllables, and onsets and rimes.
What is phonemic awareness?
100
Teaching practices that emphasize how spellings are related to speech sounds systematically. (Letter-sound relationships)
What is phonics?
200
Commercially produced reading programs. May include guided reading, workbooks, practice books, manuals, tests
What is a basal reading program?
200
The unit of writing that represents a single phoneme. It can be a letter or a group of letters. The smallest part of WRITTEN language that represents a phoneme in the spelling of a word.
What is a grapheme?
200
Words that have identical spellings but sound different and have different meanings.
What are homographs?
200
This is the goal of reading.
What is comprehension?
200
A word that is immediately recognized and does not require word analysis for identification
What is a sight word?
300
Two or three consonants blended together. The sound that this blend makes is the sound of the consonants blended together.
What is a consonant blend
300
Students do the reading w/ teacher guidance. Teachers meet w/ small homogenous groups using instructional level books to observe & support students use of strategies
What is guided reading?
300
Students' performances are compared with a norm group, which is a representative sampling of students.
What is a norm-referenced or normed test?
300
The pitch, loudness, tempos, and rhythm patterns of spoken language.
What is prosody?
300
Groups of students read a passage simultaneously
What is choral reading?
400
Two consecutive consonants that represent one new speech sound.
What is a consonant digraph?
400
Independent- reading is at 95% success.
Instructional- reading is at 90% success.
Frustration- reading is below 90% success, child becomes too focused on decoding, loses comprehension.
What are levels of reading?
400
This is the committee that developed the reading components.
What is the National Reading Panel?
400
This predicts success in reading better than age, socioeconomic status, or intelligence
What is knowledge of phonemic awareness?
400
Fluent processing of information that requires little effort or attention, as sight-word recognition.
What is automaticity?
500
A complex speech sound beginning with one vowel sound and moving to another within the same syllable. (boy-oy noise- oi).
What is a diphthong?
500
This occurs after learning has taken place and summarizes students' progress at the end of a unit or a semester or at some other point in time
What is a summative assessment?
500
The smallest units comprising spoken language. Combine to form syllables and words.
What are phonemes?
500
Graphophonic
Syntactic
Semantic
What are the three cueing systems?
500
A graphic character or symbol that can represent a phonetic sound, phoneme, or word.