Stages of Development
RTI
Literacy Assessments
The Literacy Event
Components of Literacy
100

Readers are beginning to learn sound/symbol relationships--starting with consonants and short vowels--and are able to read CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) words, as well as a number of high-frequency words.

What is the emergent level?

100

Designed to improve students' reading by helping increase their decoding, fluency, comprehension or vocabulary. ... The instructional level is the level at which a teacher “stretches” the student in his thinking and reading.

What is intervention?

100

The outcome of DRA assessment.

What is the Independent Level?

100

Length and complexity of a reading passage.

What is Density of Information?

100

The ability to hear, identify, and manipulate individual sounds-phonemes--in spoken words. Before children learn to read print, they need to become more aware of how the sounds in words work.

What is phonemic awareness.

200

Students reads longer sentences, decodes by analogy, are becoming more fluent, apply comprehension strategies.

What is the Developing Literacy Stage?

200

Quantifies a student's rate of improvement or responsiveness to instruction, and to evaluate the effectiveness of instruction.

What is progress monitoring?

200

The desired level to be attained from literacy assessment.

What is instructional level?

200
Text that is organized around main ideas and the supporting details that explain the main idea.

What is expository text?

200

The ability to apply your knowledge of letter-sound relationships, including knowledge of letter patterns, to correctly pronounce written words. Understanding these relationships gives children the ability to recognize familiar words quickly and to figure out words they haven't seen before.

What is decoding

300

Students read more difficult text and are able to apply metacognitive and collaborative reasoning to text.

What is the strategic literacy stage?

300

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What is Response to Intervention?

300

Testing that can test for letter naming and sounds.

What is DIBELS?

300

Text that is organized using story characters who have problems that are solved.

What is Narrative text?

300

A method of teaching people to read by correlating sounds with letters or groups of letters in an alphabetic writing system.

What is phonics?

400

Readers use reading and writing to construct and reflect on meaning.  The lin information from a variety of sources.

What is the complex literacy stage?

400

Demonstrates the prediction of the gains made by intervention.

What is a trend line?

400

The numeric representation of an individual's reading ability or a text's readability (or difficulty).

What is lexile level?

400

Oral Reading, Silent Reading, Discussing and Writing

What are Modes of task?

400

 The ability to process text, understand its meaning, and to integrate with what the reader already knows.

What is comprehension?

500

The grade level a first or second-grade student would be at using word patterns to extend their understanding.

What is Early Developing Stage?

500

Two to three sessions consisting of 20-30 minute lessons per week.

What is the minimum intervention needed to ensure a response to intervention?

500

The two basic formats of assessment.

What are formal and informal assessment?

500

What a student already knows about a topic.

What is background knowledge?

500

The ability to read with speed, accuracy, and proper expression. In order to understand what they read, children must be able to read fluently whether they are reading aloud or silently. When reading aloud, fluent readers read in phrases and add intonation appropriately.

What is fluency?