This dimension of fluency refers to one's ability to decode words effortlessly and without conscious decoding.
What is automaticity?
100
This assessment technique helps us to:
Determine appropriate reading material for instructional purposes and for independent reading
Determine word solving (and other) strategies students are using
Obtain info about students’ fluency like rate and use of prosodic elements
What are Running Records?
100
The level of text typically used during guided reading sessions.
What is instructional level text?
100
By activating these 2 kinds of schema or background knowledge, readers are better prepared to understand what they are reading.
What is world knowledge and textual knowledge?
100
This type of nonfiction text talks about whole classes of things in a timeless way.
What is informational text?
200
This instructional technique helps to develop fluency as students read in unison.
What is choral reading?
Will also accept: paired reading, buddy reading, or echo reading
200
This is the level of text level at which the student could benefit from (needs) teacher support
What is Instructional Level Text?
200
They way in which students are grouped during guided reading sessions.
What is small group instruction for children reading about the same level of text?
200
Teaching students to do this helps them to be more actively involved in the reading process because it activates a mental blueprint, determines how to focus attention, and allows for active monitoring.
What is setting a purpose?
200
This word solving strategy involves determining the meanings of words by examining their parts including roots, base words, and affixes.
What is morphemic analysis?
300
This dimension of fluency refers to one's ability to read with expression, appropriate intonation, volume, emphasis and phrasing.
What is prosody?
300
These are the 3 most common types of miscues.
What are substitution, insertion, and omission.
300
Unlike guided reading, this antiquated and less effective instructional practice has students reading one at a time as everyone follows along.
What is Round Robin Reading?
300
These 3 types (categories) of comprehension strategies are well established by research.
What are background knowledge (preparational) strategies, processing (organization and elaboration) strategies, and monitoring (metacognitive) strategies
300
This practice is likely the best way to promote incidental word learning.
What is independent reading?
400
This instructional technique helps to develop fluency as students engage in a dramatic presentation of a written work in script form. It works across grade levels and content areas. It's also fun!
What is Reader's Theater?
400
These are the 3 cueing systems considered when conducting a miscue analysis.
What are semantic (meaning), syntactic (structure), and graphophonic (visual)
400
When working with younger children, one way to ensure everyone is reading independently (as opposed to chorally) and at his/her own pace during guided reading is to do this.
What is stagger their start time?
400
These components of the gradual release model ensure a well scaffolded lesson.
What is modeling, guided practice, coaching, and independent practice.
Will accept: I do, we do, you do
400
This powerful instructional technique is an effective way to build students sight word recognition by capturing and having them read their own words.
What is Language Experience Approach?
500
Researchers in the 1970's put forth this theory that states the more attention readers have to devote to word identification, the less they have to devote to comprehension. So, good comprehenders of text are those who move beyond conscious and deliberate decoding.
What is the Theory of Automaticity?
500
These 3 prompts can be used when encouraging a student to cross-check his/her use of the 3 cueing systems.
What is: Does it look right? Does it sound right? Does it make sense?
500
Guided reading is an instructional venue that best maps onto this portion of the scaffolding spectrum (think Ts and Ls).
What is coaching? Or BIG L, little t
500
Comprehension strategy instruction should include explicit talk that addresses these 3 kinds of strategy knowledge as part of the task/process explanation.
What is declarative, procedural, and conditional knowledge?