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Acronyms
Comprehension
Reading Skills
Assessment
Miscellaneous
100
A measure of progress in the content areas required by the No Child Left Behind act
What is AYP?
100
When a reader is able to pull together the essential elements in a passage of text and reword them in a concise manner
What is summarizing?
100
The study of letter-sound relationships
What is Phonics?
100
A form that lists targeted behaviors as indicators of achievement, knowledge or skill; often used to guide observations
What is a checklist?
100
Basic vocabulary words that rarely need to be taught
What are Tier One words?
200
A reading intervention method designed to prevent reading failure rather than remediating it
What is Response to Intervention (RTI)
200
The process of knowing that what you are reading isn't making sense, and having a strategy for overcoming the problem
What is monitoring/clarifying?
200
The ability to read words of connected text smoothly and without significant word recognition problems
What is Fluency?
200
Running Record
What is an informal reading assessment where the teacher records miscues by the student?
200
Two adjacent vowels that represent one sound
What are vowel digraphs?
300
DIBELS
What is the acronym for the Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills?
300
When a student is able to answer "In the book" type questions, such as, "Who went into the house of the three bears?"
What is literal comprehension?
300
The reading intervention that produces the most positive effect on reading achievement for English language learners
What is vocabulary intervention?
300
A score on a scale of 100 showing the percentage of distribution that is equal to or below it?
What is a percentile?
300
A person's background knowledge and/or understanding of a concept or topic
What is schema?
400
An international association that focuses on reading instruction and puts out monthly journals, such as The Reading Teacher
What is the International Reading Association?
400
The process of judging, concluding, or reasoning from some given information
What is inferencing?
400
The reading process that involves construction meaning by interacting with text.
What is comprehension?
400
The process of analyzing a student's mistakes in reading in order to infer which strategies a student is or is not using
What is a miscue analysis?
400
High frequency words that are use across many domaines
What are Tier Two words?
500
A professional organization named for language arts teachers that is devoted to improving literacy teaching and learning at all levels of education
What is the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)?
500
A comprehension strategy in which the reader combines elements from multiple sources and integrates them into new understanding and/or perspectives
What is Synthesizing?
500
Phonemic Awareness
What is the ability to distinguish individual sounds within words called?
500
The three cueing systems analyzed in a miscue analysis
What are syntax, meaning, and visual?
500
Low frequency words that are used in specific content areas
What are Tier Three words?