What is the main idea of phonics?
Phonics is a teaching method for a, e, i, o, u, long and short vowels. Sometimes Y and W.
How can you sort the parts of reading fluency?
Automaticity
Expression
Rate
Phrasing
How would you explain syntactic clues?
Syntactic clues are how the sentences are structured and how the words are ordered.
What are the essential components of comprehension?
The essential components of comprehension are
The reader
The text
The activities or strategies
The situational context
How would you differentiate between rime and rhyme?
A rime is vowel sounds and the sounds that follow. A rhyme is a repetition of a similar sound in the final syllables.
What would you suggest if your student is having trouble choosing a text to read?
Discuss reading interest
Preview text for individual reading interest and goals
Use online tools, site and search engines
How would you define visual clues?
Visual clues are how the word looks, the letter themselves, and the letter combinations or grouping and their associated sounds.
What facts would you gather from the research on comprehension?
There is a two stage process. There is a lower process which means there is word level word identification, fluency, and vocabulary. There is also a Higher-Order thinking which means they had prior knowledge, selecting, and controlling cognitive strategies to learn from text.
How can you compare the different parts of phonological and phonemic awareness?
Phonological awareness are broader terms that includes hearing and manipulations of spoken words and syllables and phonemic awareness is the ability to hear and manipulate individual phonemes in spoken words and syllables.
How would you improve your students' reading fluency?
Independent reading
Easy text for them to read
Sight words
Read aloud
How would you explain the reason we use semantic clues?
We use semantic clues by making a meaning from words and sentences and getting context of the sentence.
How would you improve your students' comprehension?
I would improve my students comprehension by
Make connections self-text-world activating prior knowledge
Monitor your reading for meaning
Determining what is most important
Ask Questions
Create mental or visual images
Synthesize use what is known to create something new