Theories
A model used which shows reading is the product of decoding and language comprehension.
What is the simple view of reading?
The smallest unit of a word which holds meaning.
What is a morpheme?
The smallest unit of sound in a language system.
What is a phoneme?
Another name for a letter that represents a sound.
What is a grapheme?
Prosody
What is reading with phrasing and expression?
A theory comparing the process of reading to intertwined threads.
What is Scarborough's Rope?
The type of words that should be chosen for vocabulary instruction.
What are Tier 2, or high utility words?
The number of phonemes in the word " fox".
What is four? /f/, /o/, /k/, /s/
A syllable type in which the vowel is followed by a consonant and has a short vowel sound.
What is a closed syllable?
The effortless application of a skill once subskills have been taught and practiced until conscious application of those subskills is no longer needed.
What is automaticity?
The portion of the four-part processing system which processes the sounds of speech.
What is the Phonological Processor?
A type of teaching in which vocabulary words are directly taught to students in planned lessons.
What is explicit teaching?
A type of word that drives the air through the nose.
What are nasals?
The recommended approach for teaching phonics; the opposite of incidental and embedded.
What is systematic and explicit?
Is the bridge to comprehension.
What is fluency?
A theory used to determine what kind of books a student should be reading.
What is Ehri's Phases?
The amount of information or knowledge a person has related to a specific topic.
What is background knowledge?
The ability to break a word into individual sounds.
What is phoneme segmentation?
Phonics includes instruction and practice in both of these areas.
What are decoding and encoding?
ABC arc, letter id drills, and multisensory activities
What are ways to build fluency with letter identification?
The initiative has the acronym R. I. S. E.
What is Reading Initiative for Student Excellence?
A meaningful exchange between individuals that follows rules of turn-taking, listening, and responding.
What is a conversation?
A combination of two letters representing one sound.
What is a digraph?
The mental process used to store words for immediate, effortless retrieval.
What is orthographic mapping?
Texts used to practice reading words with phonics patterns and high frequency words that have been taught.
What are decodable texts?