Literacy Foundations
A fancy word for letters.
What is a grapheme?
books in the room that kids can borrow
What is a classroom library?
The at in bat.
What is the rime?
Text to self, text to text, and text to world.
What are types of connections?
a neurobiological disorder that affects a person’s phonological processing and memory
What is dyslexia?
Fox has 4, but church has 3.
What are phonemes?
Multiple books that have the same characters.
What are series books?
The b in bat.
What is an onset?
rate, accuracy, and expression
What is fluency?
directionality, return sweep, word, letter, punctuation
What are concepts about print?
We want kids who can read and who want to read.
What independent reading matters?
An activity in which children use letters to create words.
What is making words?
You can write questions or parts of a story on this and throw it around the room to help kids with comprehension.
What is a beach ball?
prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, publishing
What is the writing process?
An activity in which you cover a word and have children try to figure out what it is.
What is guess the covered word?
The number one way to get kids to be good readers.
What is reading a lot and often?
Using boat to spell the word coat is an example of this.
What is using words you know or using analogies?
Visualizing is one example.
What are comprehension strategies?
Another term for the most common words found in the English Language
What are high frequency words?
An activity in which the children and the teacher read a piece of writing. It is usually done whole class.
What is shared reading?
4 ways to increase reading volume
What are access to books, class discussion about texts, book talks/blessing, and choice?
A fancy word for spelling.
What is encoding?
When you explain what is happening in your head as you read.
What is a think aloud?
exercise and dehydrate are examples, but dog and mitochondria are not
What are tier 2 words?