Formal tests that are normed to a large population
What are standardized tests?
100
Lobe of the brain responsible for vision.
What is the occipital lobe?
100
Number of correct words per minute students should read before they can benefit from silent reading.
What is 90?
200
Stage at which students study word families
What is the early letter-name alphabet stage?
200
Specific, direct scaffolding technique whereby students are explicitly taught a strategy, and then prompts and supports are gradually withdrawn and student uses the strategy independently
What is cognitive strategy instruction?
200
A progress-monitoring system in which students are assessed on skills being taught until they can do them successfully
What is mastery learning?
200
Structure in the limbic system that is the gatekeeper of stimulii entering the brain.
What is the amygdala?
200
Level of reading at which students recognize at least 95% of the words they read in a given passage.
What is independent reading level?
300
Stage at which students might sort pictures by onset (beginning sound)
What is the emergent stage?
300
A technology device that consists of a small keyboard students can transport easily for word processing.
What is a NEO?
300
A progress-monitoring system in which students are given regular, frequent probes that cover the full year's curriculum each time.
What is curriculum based measurement? (CBM)
300
In what area of the brain does letter-sound association occur?
What is the angular gyrus?
300
Level at which students recognize 90-95% of the words they read in a given passage.
What is instructional level?
400
Stage at which students study beginning consontant blends and digraphs
What is the early letter-name alphabet stage?
400
A general system of supports that are gradually withdrawn.
What is scaffolding?
400
Assessments for the purpose of checking student progress in order to inform instructional decisions
What are formative assessments?
400
Area of the brain where auditory processing occurs, as well as sound blending and segmenting?
What is Wernicke's area? (left temporal lobe)
400
Level at which students recognize less than 90% of the words they read in a given passage.
What is frustration level?
500
Stage at which students sort pictures and words by CVC patterns, short and long vowel sounds
What is the late letter-name alphabet stage?
500
A writing strategy in which students learn to plan, organize, write, edit, and review.
What is POWER writing?
500
Assessments given to students for the purpose of evaluation, generally in order to give a grade?
What are summative assessments?
500
Area of the brain in which meaning is assigned to words.
What is Broca's area?
500
Reading program which sucks the enjoyment of reading out of students which Bonny hates with a passion.