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100

This is the awareness of the individual speech sounds in words

What is phonemic awareness?

100

Teachers adjust pacing based on student responses

What is diagnostic and responsive?

100

Decoding of silent-e (SE) words

What is Phonics?

100

Recognizing words with the same middle and ending sounds

What is rhyming?

100

The relationship between letters and sounds in language.

What is phonics?

200

How to map sounds to letters.

What is Orthography?

200

Language elements are taught in a sequence with practice and feedback

What is Systematic?

200

Learning to read irregular words that are common in texts that students are reading (e.g., what, of, have)

What are irregular words?

200

The grammatical order of words, or sentence structure 






What is syntax?

200

Understanding the meaning of words and how they are used in different contexts.

What is vocabulary?

300

How to divide words into parts

What are Syllables?

300

Lessons build on previous knowledge

What is Cumulative?

300

Learning the meanings of unfamiliar words that are important to the literacy curriculum (e.g., beverage)

What is vocabulary?

300

The ability to read words quickly and accurately in order to comprehend the text.

What is fluency?

300

The ability to understand and make meaning from what has been read

What is reading comprehension?

400

The study of base words and affixes

What is Morphology?

400

Methods include using tiles, hand gestures, and color-coding

What is Hands-on?

400

Learning to recognize “signal words” that tie together the ideas in a paragraph (e.g., therefore, next, for example, in summary)

What are paragraphs?

400

 The mechanics of writing to include punctuation, semantics, syntax, composition, and editing.

What is written expression?

400
  • Phonological awareness
  • Decoding
  • Sight recognition

What is word recognition?

500

The grammatical order of words, or sentence structure 






What is Syntax?

500

Lessons engage learners with visual, auditory, kinesthetic, and tactile responses

What is Multisensory?

500

Phoneme blending, words with four to five phonemes (e.g., smash)

What is phonemic awareness?

500

Decoding X Language Comprehension=Reading Comprehension

What is the Simple View of Reading?

500
  • Background knowledge
  • Vocabulary
  • Language structures
  • Verbal reasoning
  • Literacy knowledge

What is language comprehension?