Reading
Development &
Assessment
Phonological Awareness
Phonics
Fluency
Vocabulary

100

The rich get richer and poor get poorer.

What is the Matthew Effect?
100

The smallest unit of speech that makes a difference in a word's meaning.

What is a phoneme?

100

Two words in different languages that share a similar meaning, pronunciation, and spelling.

What are cognates?

100

The three elements of fluency instruction.

What are rate, accuracy, and prosody?

100

The tier of words that should be targeted for vocabulary instruction.

What are Tier 2 words?

200

The ultimate goal of reading instruction.

What is comprehension?

200

The vowel and everything after it in a monosyllabic word.

What is a rime unit?
200

A letter or written expression of one sound.

What is a grapheme?

200

Reading with expression.

What is prosody?

200

Skillful use of words.

What is adept diction?

300

A type of language encountered most commonly in the school context.

What is academic language?
300

An activity that requires students to pull sound markers into individual boxes representing sounds in words.

What are Elkonin Boxes?

300

Words that can be decoded based on phonics rules.

What are regular words?

300

The three levels of text readability.

What are independent, instructional, and frustration levels?

300

The use of word order to convey meaning.

What is syntax?

400

A type of reading difficulty most concerned with word reading difficulties

What is dyslexia?

400

Word level, syllable level, onset-rime level, and phoneme level.

What are the levels of phonological awareness?

400

Words that are irregular at one point in instruction but eventually become regular after all sound/spelling are taught.

What are temporarily irregular words?

400

Reading aloud in unison, as a whole class or small group, along with a teacher or more-capable reader.

What is choral reading?

400

The smallest meaningful unit of language.

What is a morpheme?

500

A type of reading assessment used to pinpoint specific areas of weakness.

What is a diagnostic assessment?

500

Given a word, students recognize the word that remains when a phoneme is removed from that word.

What is phoneme deletion?

500

A “roadmap” or “blueprint” for teachers that provides an overall picture of an instructional program and includes the range of teaching content and the order or sequence in which it is taught.

What is a scope and sequence?

500

Rereading of text until the reader is able to read at a predetermined rate to produce fluency.

What is repeated oral reading?

500

The social context in which a sentence occurs.

What is pragmatics?