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Word Structures/Print Awareness
Phonemic Awareness/Phonics
Syllabication/Fluency
Vocabulary
Comprehension
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A sudden drop off in reading scores in 4th grade.
What is the Fourth Grade Slump?
100
An umbrella term that includes the awareness of the larger parts of spoken language, such as words, syllables, and onsets and rimes.
What is phonological awareness?
100
The division of a multisyllabic word into separate syllables with each syllable containing one vowel sound
What is syllabication?
100
Instruction that creates enhanced knowldge of the meaning and uses of words - goes beyond the dictionary defintion.
What is rich and robust instruction?
100
The text, the activy, the reader, and the context.
What are the Elements of Reading Comprehension?
200
Aliterate, Functional Illiterate, and illiterate
What are the three categories of adolescent struggling readers?
200
The study that demonstrates the first-grade decoding ability is a major factor in comprehension as students progress through grades.
What is the Connecticut Longitudinal Study?
200
Syllable Types & Division Principle, Identifying Affixes, & Using Flexible syllabication strategies.
What are the three research based approaches to how to decode multisyllabic words?
200
Providing students opportunities to process word meanings at a deeper, more complex level.
What is developing in-depth word knowledge?
200
When reading is running smoothly and when something happens that impedes the reading process.
What are clicks and clunks?
300
Words in two languages that share a similar spelling, pronunciation, and meaning.
What are cognates?
300
Teaching in a clearly defined, carefully selected, logical sequence AND where lessons are clearly explained and modeled without ambiguity.
What is systematic and explicit instruction?
300
The combination of reading rate and accuracy.
What is oral reading fluency?
300
How to use dictionaries, how to use morphemic analysis, how to use contextual analysis, and how to use cognates.
What are Word Learning Strategies?
300
A process of gradually shifting responsibility for learning from the teacher to the students.
What is scaffolding?
400
The acronym, CLOVER
What are the common syllable types - closed, consonant le, open, vowel combination, silent e, r-control?
400
Synthetic, Analogy, Analytic, & Embedded
What are some approaches to Phonics Instruction?
400
Having models of fluent reading for students to hear.
What is Assisted Reading?
400
A set of words to which students can assign some type of meaning when listening or reading.
What is Receptive Vocabulary?
400
The use of multiple comprehension strategies to understand the text that include collaborative discussions among learners, reader responses, and motivation.
What is Transactional Strategies Instruction (TSI)?
500
The area of the brain that is important for organization, production, and manipulation of language and speech.
What is the Broca's Area?
500
Examining the relationship between the instructional sequence of sound/spellings and the words in the text.
What is decodability?
500
An integrated approach to fluency instruction that combines repeated oral reading and teacher-and peer-assisted reading with independent silent reading.
What is Fluency-Oriented Reading Instruction (FORI)?
500
Engaging in rich oral language experiences at home, listening to books being read aloud, and reading widely independently.
What is Incidental Vocabulary Learning?
500
Descripton, Compare-Contrast, Cause-Effect, Problem/Solution, Time Order (Sequence).
What are Informational Text Structures?