Phonological Awareness
Phonological awareness focuses on the use of these
What are sounds?
The ability to convert a word from print to speech
What is decoding?
What is fluency?
"the essence of reading" or "the process of simultaneously extracting and constructing meaning through interaction and involvement with written language"
What is comprehension?
A process by which the teacher collects information regarding a student's progress
What is assessment?
When two words have different onsets but the same rime
What is rhyme?
A method of instruction that teaches students the systematic relationship between the letters and letter combinations in written language and the individual sounds in spoken language and how to use these relationships to read and spell words
What is phonics?
The ability to recognize or decode words correctly
What is accuracy?
interaction with text that is simultaneously motivated and strategic
What is reading engagement?
A type of assessment that involves gathering information about a student's skills as the learning takes place
What is formative assessment?
The ability to detect, identify, and manipulate phonemes in spoken words
What is phonemic awareness?
Reading practice material in which the majority of words are linked to phonics instruction using sound/spelling relationships and spelling patterns students have been taught
What is decodable text?
How quickly and accurately one reads connected text
What is reading rate (speed)?
Conscious plans that readers apply and adapt to make sense of text and get the most out of what they read
What are comprehension strategies?
A type of assessment that reveals what a student has learned at the end of a unit of study
What is summative assessment?
Given a word, student recognizes individual sounds in the word
What is phoneme isolation?
100 words that account for approximately 50% of words in text used in schools and colleges
What are high-frequency words?
The rhythmic and tonal aspects of speech
Stories and other narrative texts which tell a story, expressing connected, event-based experiences
What is literary text?
A benchmark assessment for early literacy skills, given in many elementary schools
Given a word separated into phonemes, student combines the sounds to form the whole word
What is phoneme blending?
Words that are not real words but are used to assess decoding skills
A bridge between decoding and comprehension
What is fluency?
Text that communicates facts about the natural or social world
What is informational text?
The title of the blue assessment book you purchased for this course
What is Assessing Reading, Multiple Measures?