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Reading
Skills
Miscellaneous
Assessment
Teaching
100
Words that are recognized by the reader immediately without having to resort to decoding.
What are sight words
100
Alphabet books are classified as:
What is a concept book
100
The distance between a child’s actual developmental level and his or her potential level, that can be reached with teacher scaffolding:
What is zone of proximal development
100
As children are learning how to read and decode, they should be taught some common site vocabulary words, knowing as:
What are High Frequency Words
100
The spontaneous, indirect teaching that occurs when teachers respond to students’ questions for students otherwise demonstrate the need to know something.
What is a teachable moment
200
Reading material that a student can read independently:
What is Independent Reading Level
200
The literacy skill of being able to read words and phrases quickly and accurately with appropriate expression.
What is prosody
200
Weekly examples of the most commonly used words are added to the class word wall. The words are pronounced, while using them in sentences. Students will develop this as a result of the activity.
What is recognizing sight vocabulary
200
A method of estimating the difficulty level of a text
What is a Lexile score
200
Students read leveled books in small group lessons with teacher support.
What is Guided Reading
300
Phonics builds and reinforces this principle
What is The Alphabetic Principle
300
Matching letters and letter combinations with sounds (sound symbol association).
What is sound mapping
300
Texts that contain rhyme, rhythm and repetition, and are also used to teach concepts about print, English syntax well providing an enjoyable language experience are called:
What are predictable texts
300
With guidance, children will soon discover that all 44 ________ in the English language, can be represented by letters or groups of letters.
What are phonemes/sounds
300
Comparing spelling patterns, to patterns already known, is a decoding strategy known as:
What is analogy
400
This is what happens when children decode
What is construct meaning
400
The ability to tell the sounds in a word, in order
What is segmenting
400
The category of literature, such as folklore, science, fiction, biography, historical fiction, or a writing form.
What is genre
400
Reading material that a student can read with teacher support
What is Instructional Reading Level
400
Procedures for assisting students in learning, providing options, challenging students, and matching books to students ability/interest, in order to maximize individualized learning.
What is differentiated instruction
500
This happens when a child is able to apply phonics skills to known words, and blends the series of sounds, in the order in which they occur in the printed word.
What is decoding
500
Teaching predictable relationships between phonemes and graphemes.
What is Phonics Instruction
500
The initial phonological unit of any word (e.g. c in cat). It is before the "rime" or the string of letters that follow the vowel and final consonant (e.g. at in cat).
What are onsets
500
Children first string of letters together at random. Then, when they have discovered the alphabetic principle, they begin to sound out words. Finally, they progress to one syllable spelling patterns, syllable combinations, and the spelling of meaningful word parts, or morphemes:
What are developmental stages of spelling
500
A small or whole group class discussion about literature:
What is Grand Conversation