Random RICA
Definition: Reading at an appropriate pace with appropriate expression with automaticity.
What is fluency?
Words you can learn without having to decode them.
What are sight words?
Definition: Two letters that spell a single sound, or phoneme. For example: The /ch/ in "check"
What is a digraph?
The tier of words you do not have to teach
Tier 1, Tier 2, Tier 3
What is Tier 1?
Definition: The ultimate goal of reading. Word analysis, fluency, vocabulary, academic knowledge, and the reader's background knowledge all affect it.
What is reading comprehension?
Definition: The awareness that alphabetic letters represent speech sounds.
What is the alphabetic principal?
I like ice cream.
is this type of sentence
What is a simple sentence?
laugh, mountain, preconceived, decide
What is preconceived?
This is a free morpheme.
un, est, pre, book
What is book?
Setting, characters, plot, conflict, resolution, theme, and point of view
What is story grammar or story elements?
This spelling stage is where children understand each letter represents a sound, but they often choose the wrong letters to represent the sound. For example: The siup canot flote in the watr.
What is the phonetic stage (aka invented spelling)?
Involves directing student attention toward specific learning in a highly structured environment. It is teaching that is focused on specific learning goals.
What is explicit instruction?
Definition: when two or more consonants appear together and you hear each sound that each consonant would normally make. For example: /bl/ in "blue"
What is a blend?
For students to learn the meaning of words, they must have _________ exposure to words.
implicit, explicit, repeated, creative
What is repeated?
Definition: Identifying explicitly stated main ideas, details, sequences, cause-and-effect relationships, patterns, and elements of story grammar. The answer is in right there in the text.
What is literal comprehension?
These errors are meaning-related, such as reading 'dad' for 'father'
What are semantic errors?
A strategy when you match a book with a student's interest and their independent reading level
What is the 1 + 1 Strategy?
The teacher says the letter, the child points at it. This is an example of what?
What is letter recognition?
Teaching prefixes, suffixes, root words helps students with this kind of word analysis
(Latin & Greek)
What is Morphemic Analysis?
What is Structural Analysis?
This strategy assesses the literal comprehension of young readers.
What is oral retelling?
This is the best way to determine a students spelling stage
What is a writing sample?
This type of instruction is not a part of the new literacy standards, but you have to know about it for RICA.
Balanced, comprehensive
Structured, explicit
What is balanced reading instruction?
This strategy uses Elkonin boxes to help teach phonemic awareness.
What is segmenting?
This is a grid that teachers can use in science or social studies that can identify traits of the target word.
What is a Semantic Feature Analysis?
These help which type of students
Activating students prior knowledge
Build on students current language skills.
Use preteach and reteach practice
Visuals (charts, pictures)
What are English Language Learners?