Bringing Children & Text Together
Text Complexity
Phonological Awareness
Word Identification
Foundations of Language & LIteracy
100

Form of reading that assumes the process of translating print to meaning begins with the print. The process is initiated by decoding graphic symbols into sounds.

What is the bottom-up model of reading?

100

Quantitative, qualitative, and reader/text factors

What are the components of text complexity?

100

The ability to hear sounds of language apart from its meaning.

What is phonological awareness?

100

The ability to name or label words that are encountered in print and encompasses the use of multiple cues to identify unfamiliar words.

What is word identification?

100
Awareness, experimental, early, transitional, and independent and productive.

What are the phases of children's development in early reading and writing?

200

Reflects the prior knowledge, experiences, conceptual understandings, attitudes, values, skills, and procedures a reader brings to a reading situation.

What is schema theory?

200

Sentence length, number of syllables, word length, and word frequency.

What are the quantitative features of text complexity?

200

Rhyming, alliteration, sentence segmenting, blending and segmenting syllables, and phonemic awareness.

What is the phonological awareness continuum?

200

Word recognition, sight-word recognition, context

What is immediate identification?

200

Written language in books, supermarkets, department stores, fast-food restaurants, television, computer games, household products, and signs.

What is environmental print?

300

Refers to the knowledge and regulation of some form of cognitive ability.  In reading, it refers to self-knowledge, task-knowledge, and self-monitoring.

What is metacognition?

300

A way to measure a texts readability based upon a calculated formula.

What are lexile levels?

300

/c/ /a/ /t/

What is phoneme segmenting?

300

Whole to part phonics instruction

What is analytic phonics instruction?

300

The ability to listen and speak with understanding and communicate with others

What is oral language development?

400

This system relies upon the print itself in order to provide readers with a major source of information. The graphic symbols or marks on the page represent speech sounds. The more experience readers have with written language, the more they learn about regular and irregular letter-sound relationships.

What is the graphophonemic system?

400

The reader's success with reading and cognitive skills, prior knowledge and experience, motivation and engagement, and specific task concerns.

What are the reader/tasks factors of text complexity?

400

toy, truck, band

What is phoneme categorization?

400

/th/ /ing?

What is onset and rime?
400

Opportunities for children to discuss experiences, listen to and tell stories, dictate words, sentences and stories, and write independently.

What are language-experience activities?

500

Model that assumes that the process of translating print to meaning involves making use of both prior knowledge and print.

What is the interactive model of reading?

500

Writing style, vocabulary, text structure, and author's purpose.

What are language features?

500

Stories, games, tongue twisters, and alliteration.

What are ways to help children build their phonological awareness skills?

500

Instructional strategies that use a combination of the senses, namely the visual, auditory, kinesthetic, and tactile modalities.

What are multi-sensory activities?

500

The teacher is a scribe for text dictated by children and shares the pen with them to create the text together.

What is shared writing?