Phonemic Awareness
Phonics
Vocabulary
Fluency
Comprehension
100

Any of the perceptually distinct units of speech that distinguish one word from another.

What is a phoneme?

100

Jack demonstrates blending a cvc word, has his students blend with him, then has them blend independently.

What is modeling, guided practice and independent practice (I-Do, We-Do, You-Do)?

100

The collection of knowledge, based on lived experience, that frames a child’s view of the world.

What is Background Knowledge?

100

Describes the ability to read with appropriate speed, accuracy, and proper expression (hint - it is not fluency).

What is automaticity?

100

Describes the ability to think about thinking.

What is metacognition?

200

Ehri's word recognition stage that shows an understanding of letter sound correspondence.

What is Pre-Alphabetic?

200

A learning plan for a 2nd grader that knows 50% of his letter sounds must be this.

What is systematic, explicit, and consistent evidence based intervention?

200

The teaching of roots and affixes that enable students to determine the meaning of unknown word.

What is Structural Analysis?

200

Examples include choral reading, echo reading, shared reading, and partner reading.

What is Auditory Modeling?

200

Examples include Monitoring Comprehension, Predicting, Text-Connections, Asking & Answering Questions, Constructing Mental Images, and Summarizing.

What are Comprehension Strategies for Before, During and After Reading?

300

Hands on activity to manipulate sounds in words. 

What are Elkonin boxes?

300

The phase when a reader has learned to decode words, and is able to do it effortlessly.

What is the Automatic phase?

300

A visual mnemonic strategy to help students learn and retain vocabulary.

What is the LINCS strategy?

300

A strategy that helps students to understand the natural pauses that occur between phrases while reading.

What is Phrase-Cued text?

300

The phrase "Click or Clunk" is used to describe this.

What is the comprehension monitoring strategy?

400

Assessment that demonstrates the ability to segement the individual spoken sounds in words.

What is the CORE Phoneme Segmentation Assessment?

400

Assessment that demonstrates the ability to analyze individual and combinations of letter sounds (i.e. words).

What is the CORE Phonics Survey?

400

Assessment that demonstrates the ability to understand grade-level words.

What is the CORE Vocabulary Screening?

400

Measure of the ability to read connected texts quickly, accurately and with appropriate expression.

What is Miscue, Rate and Prosody analysis.

400

Measures the ability to understand text read silently by employing semantic and syntactic cues.

What is a Maze Comprehension assessment?