Which strategy would determine a student's prior knowledge of a subject?
100
The smallest units of speech.
What is a phoneme?
100
To read with appropriate expression, including emphasis of certain words, variation in pitch and pausing.
What is prosody?
100
The language used in textbooks and tests; the language of the classroom. It is different than language used in everyday social interaction, which is less formal.
What is academic language?
100
The ability of a reader to understand the surface meaning of a text. Skills include being able to identify main ideas, details, and sequence of events.
What is literal comprehension?
200
Sound segmentation.
Which area of phonemic awareness would be the best to determine with the Yopp Singer Test?
200
Requires children to identify and detect word boundaries. Goal is to help children become aware that sentences are made up of words.
What is word awareness?
200
To correctly pronounce words when reading orally.
What is accuracy?
200
What you know about a specific topic. The foundation upon which greater knowledge can be built.
What is background knowledge?
200
This structure of this text is written in a standard pattern that can include cause and effect, problem and solution, compare and contrast, sequence and description.
What is expository text structure?
300
Recommending books that children would enjoy reading.
An early elementary teacher could most effectively support at-home reading by?
300
Children share an experience and dictate an account of that experience to an adult, who records it verbatim.
What is Language Experience Approach (LEA)?
300
The ability to read text at an appropriate speed.
What is rate?
300
Meanings of words that help activate prior knowledge of key concepts associated with target word. Diagrams (word maps/semantic webs) are often used. It is an effective tool for a teacher-guided discussion about a word.
What are semantic maps?
300
The ability of a reader to interpret what he or she has read. Skills include being able to infer main ideas and draw conclusion.
What is inferential comprehension?
400
Individual letter matches an individual sound.
What is the alphabetic principle?
400
When a child writes a word but doesn't know the accurate spelling, also called temporary spelling/invented spelling.
What is phonetic spelling?
400
Swift and accurate reading.
What is automaticity?
400
The order of words in sentences.
What is syntax?
400
The ability of a reader to make judgements about what he or she has read. Skills include being able to recognize unsupported assumptions and distinguishing between facts and opinions in texts.
What is evaluative comprehension?
500
Understanding the difference between letters, words, punctuation and directionality.
What is concepts about print?
500
The most elemental unit of meaning in a language. There are two types: some words and all affixes.
What is morpheme?
500
The level at which students can read and understand books with support, but not on their own. Accuracy rate is 90-94%.
What is instructional reading level?
500
Requires students to look at the parts of the words to determine their meaning.
What is morphemic analysis?
500
The fast reading of a text, usually for purposes of preview or review. The reader is looking for key words and important sentences.