Comprehension
A text that reports factual information and the relationships among idea
What is expository/informational text?
A word that refers to the study of word meanings (HINT: it starts with s-).
What is semantics?
A term for any skilled and complex behavior that can be performed easily with little attention, effort, or consciousness.
What is automaticity?
The pairing of letters with the sounds that they make.
What is phonics?
The category of text that can be read in a newspaper or a cookbook.
What is expository text?
Activating background knowledge
What is the connection students make to prior experience while reading?
The awareness of and interest in word meanings.
What is word consciousness?
A type of oral reading where the teacher reads a sentence, followed by the student(s)
What is echo reading?
The smallest speech sound.
What is a phoneme?
Words that appear often in text and are high utility.
What are high frequency words?
A strategy used after reading to retell what the story was about.
What is summarizing?
Hearing and production of speech sound.
Less than 90% reading accuracy indicates that a text is not appropriate for fluency instruction.
What is the frustration level?
Based on the alphabetic principle, the units that are represented by graphemes in spoken words
What are phonemes?
The level at which you can understand what you hear.
What is listening comprehension?
A comprehension strategy where good readers make informed suggestions about what will happen before and during reading.
What is predicting?
The main part of a word. Affixes are added to it to make a new word.
What is a root word?
95-100% reading accuracy of a text.
What is the independent level?
An umbrella term for words, syllables, onsets, rimes, and phonemes
What is phonological awareness?
The category of text that can be read in a novel or a diary entry
What is narrative text?
A strategy where the teacher prompts students with questions that encourage students to actively engage with the story. Responsibility is gradually released to the students.
What is dialogic reading?
The study of speech sounds.
What is phonology?
Paired students take turns reading a book aloud, providing corrective feedback.
What is peer-assisted reading?
Children learn to recognize and identify individual sounds in a word.
What is phoneme isolation?
Students are encouraged to activate this before reading a new text
What is background knowledge?