Theorists
This literacy theorist believed that children need early, orderly, systematic training in order to master skills. She believed the teacher is a guide who prepares an environment with the materials to teach the skills.
Who is Maria Montessori?
Speech sounds that combine to form syllables and words.
What are phonemes?
The letters that represent the sounds in written language.
What are graphemes?
This component of reading is the foundation where students learn the ability to recognize and manipulate individual sounds in spoken language.
What is phonemic awareness?
This book award recognizes outstanding books for young adults and children by African American authors and illustrators.
What is the Coretta Scott King Award for Authors?
This theorist believed that cognitive development is limited to a "zone of proximal development" (ZPD).
Who is Vygotsky?
Given a word, students make a new word by replacing one phoneme with another. The word is rug. Change /g/ to /n/. What's the new word?
What is substitution?
A syllable in which a single vowel is followed by a consonant. The vowel is usually short.
What is a closed syllable?
Uses the acronym SSR.
What is silent sustained reading?
This children's literature book genre refers to stories in which authors create events, settings, or characters that are outside the realm of possibility and cannot happen in the real world.
What is fantasy?
This theorist's cognitive development theory focuses on how children's intelligence development in stages: sensorimotor, pre-operational, concrete operational, and formal operational.
Who is Piaget?
Given a word separated into phonemes, the student combines the sounds to form a whole word. What word is /b/ /i/ /g/ ?
What is blending?
A syllable containing two vowels in which a new vowel sound is formed by the combination of both vowel sounds. Example: oi, oy, ow, au. Foil, cloud, owl.
What is a diphthong?
This type of reading whole-group lesson involves students reading along with the teacher, working on fluency, concepts of print, letter sounds, phonics patterns, etc.
Hint: Read Aloud or Shared Reading?
What is shared reading?
This type of poem is a lyric unrhymed poem of Japanese origin with 17 syllables, arranged on three lines with a syllable count of 5, 7, and 5.
What is a haiku?
This theorist's ecological theory focused on the child and their environment: microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem, macrosystem, and chronosystem.
Who is Bronfenbrenner?
Given a word, students recognize individual sounds in the word. What is the first sound in van?
What is isolation?
A syllable containing two vowels that together make one vowel sound. ai, ea, oa. Bean, pie, boat.
What is a vowel team?
At this age, children can speak between 100 and 500 words, short sentences, and put 2-3 words together such as "red apple" or "I go up".
What is 2 years old?
This children's literature genre is a form of imaginative literature that projects the future on Earth or other planets based on scientific facts and principles.
What is science fiction?
This literacy theorist coined the term Transactional Theory/Reading Response Theory which stresses the importance of the reader in making meaning from the text.
Who is Louise Rosenblatt?
Given a set of three or four words, students recognize the word that has the "odd" sound. Which word does not belong: red, dog, run?
What is categorization?
Two or more consonants that, together, represent one sound. sh, ph, ch.
What is a consonant digraph?
This DOK Level represents skills and concepts. Verbs: Infer, predict, categorize.
What is DOK Level 2?
This type of conflict occurs when a character faces an internal struggle, typically involving emotions, thoughts, or decisions.
Hint: Person-against-person, person-against-self, or person-against-nature
What is person-against-self conflict?