The different techniques the teacher uses to help the different learners in the classroom with words and comprehension.
What is scaffolding?
100
When a teacher uses part-to-whole instruction and that is not successful, another possible type of instruction that is opposite of the part-to-whole approach.
What-is-whole-to-part?
100
Instructional reading level texts should be utilized with which reading periods or
groupings.
What is shared reading?
100
When teachers check their students’ spelling notebooks weekly to determine if goals have been met?
What is progress monitoring?
100
Affixes that are added to base words that affect the meaning and/or the part of speech.
What are derivational affixes?
200
A game that includes sorting words together like fox to box, mouse to house, goat to boat, etc.
What are rhyming words and categories?
200
Books at an appropriate reading level so that students can silently read.
What is independent text?
200
Units of English words that contain a single vowel that may be preceded or followed by consonants. For example splitting the words by clapping. Clapping to Clapp*ing.
What are syllables?
200
Impeached is an example of how a suffix can change the tense of a verb?
What is an inflected verb?
200
A student uses a technique by looking at the base word and prefixes or suffixes to understand the definition of the word.
What is structural analysis?
300
When children know the names of the letters then they can start to understand that there is a relationship between sounds and letters and that they go together.
What is the alphabetic principle?
300
When silent reading is limited, students need to read out loud to themselves.
What is whisper reading?
300
Knowledge of English language structures that helps accuracy, rate and speed?
What is fluency?
300
When a student reads fluently with expression as well as with appropriate emphasis on certain words.
What is prosody?
300
This skill shows how successful students are at reading large texts through how quickly they read.
What is reading rate?
400
A place where the instructor puts vocabulary and sight words that the students have learned, so that students have a reference tool.
What is a word-wall?
400
The vocabulary list contains CVC words like cat, can and cap. The teacher instructs how to sound out each letter. Then the students put all the sounds together.
What is blending?
400
Words that sound alike but can be spelled differently.
What are homophones?
400
A word analysis strategy that breaks down a words using combination of pictures,definition,antonyms and latin meanings among others to create a visual “web” of meaning.
What is word map or semantic map?
400
A part of a multisyllabic word used to modify the base words that can be found at the beginning or the end of the word.
What is an affix?
500
When a class reads together and periodically stops to review the components of exposition including character, setting, events, problem and solution to help enhance comprehension.
What are purposeful read-alouds?
500
When students guess what will happen later in a story.
What is a prediction?
500
The ability to paraphrase the main events/big ideas of a story.
What is a summary?
500
A type of comprehension strategy where students consistently check their understanding of the text?
What is monitoring?
500
When students understand underlying points and information that is not explicitly stated.