Vocabulary, Academic Language, and Background Knowledge
Comprehension
100
To determining instructional reading levels a teacher must know these two key things.
What are the percentage of words and comprehension questions a student can correctly answer.
100
This is ability to distinguish the different sounds in a spoken word.
What is phonemic awareness.
100
A teacher assesses these three things when assessing fluency.
What is Accuracy, Reading Rate, and Prosody.
100
This is the language used in textbooks and tests the language of the classroom.
What is Academic Language.
100
This is a chart that helps students activate, think about, and organize their prior knowledge.
What is a KWL Chart .
200
A child must reach this percentage in order for it to be considered passing their instructional level.
What is 90%
200
Knowledge of the sounds that letters make is known as this.
What is phonics.
200
Prosody is this...
What is a student’s ability to Read with appropriate emphasis, pauses, and variations in pitch.
200
The following words are examples of: Define, identify, illustrate, summarize, classify, speculate...
What is Nontechnical Academic Language.
200
This item helps students focus on key information in the text.
What is a study guide.
300
Reading dad instead of father is an example of this...
What is an example of a semantic error.
300
The smallest unit of speech is know as this.
What is a phoneme.
300
At this grade level students should begin to read fluently in a way that sounds like natural speech.
What is 1st grade.
300
This is the number of words the average elementary school student can learn in a year.
What is 350-400.
300
This style of reading involves quickly looking over through a text for the answer to a question.
What is Scanning.
400
Individualized instruction that focuses on using phonics to decode words when reading is an example of helping a student with trouble making these type of errors.
What are semantic errors.
400
The difference between an onset and a rime is this.
What is an onset is the initial consonant sound or blend in a syllable and a rime is the vowel sounds and consonants that follow.
400
Reading a text at their independent reading level can help a student do this.
What is improve their fluency.
400
Kid friendly definitions should be used be used during this type of instruction.
What is vocabulary instruction.
400
You would look at these before reading a new text in a 5th grade classroom.
What are text features.
500
Temporary assistance or support given to a student on a new or difficult task.
What is scaffolding.
500
Introducing students to short two to four word sentences, reading the sentence first as a whole, then reading it and taping each word and finally asking students how many words are in the sentence is a good way to teach this concept.
What is word awareness.
500
What kind of texts should a teacher select to improve a student’s fluency
What are Short texts in a variety of genres.
500
Vocabulary instruction and intervention for those struggling is essential in these grades.
What are primary grades.
500
This sentence helps you understand what the paragraph is about.