What's in a word?
The smallest units making up the English language.
What are phonemes?
Administering an informal reading inventory is the best assessment for this area.
Defined as 85 percent correct word recognition with at least 75 percent comprehension.
What is Instructional Reading Level?
An interactive reading experience that occurs when students join in or share the reading of a book or other text while guided and supported by a teacher. The teacher explicitly models the skills of proficient readers, including reading with fluency and expression.
Options: Silent reading, choral reading, guided reading, shared reading, round robin reading.
What is Shared Reading?
The use of straightforward, explicit teaching techniques, usually to teach a specific skill.
Options: Whole language approach, direct reading instruction
What is Direct Reading Instruction? (DI)
The __________ strategy uses a grid to help kids explore how sets of things are related to one another. By completing and analyzing the grid, students are able to see connections, make predictions and master important concepts. This strategy enhances comprehension and vocabulary skills.
Options: semantic gradient, brainstorming, anticipation guide, semantic feature analysis, readers theater
What is semantic feature analysis?
The understanding that there is a predictable relationship between phonemes (the sounds of spoken language) and graphemes (the letters and spellings that represent those sounds in written language). Readers use these relationships to recognize familiar words and to decode unfamiliar ones.
What is phonics?
Reached when less than 85 percent of the words are recognized or comprehension falls below 50 percent.
What is frustration reading level?
An evidence-based instructional approach that teaches students how to comprehend text.
Options: Silent reading, choral reading, guided reading, shared reading, round robin reading.
What is Guided Reading?
Also known as balanced literacy, the ______________ is an educational philosophy that teaches children to read by using strategies that show how language is a system of parts that work together to create meaning.
Options: Whole language approach, direct reading instruction
What is whole language approach?
A way to broaden and deepen students' understanding of related words. ___________ often begin with antonyms, or opposites, at each end of the continuum. This strategy helps students distinguish between shades of meaning.
Options: semantic gradient, brainstorming, anticipation guide, semantic feature analysis, readers theater
What is semantic gradient?
Understanding of the meanings and usage of words for communication.
What is vocabulary?
A combination of two letters that make one sound. An example of a ________ is the combination of c and h in the word china.
Options: dipthong, blend, digraph
What is a digraph?
A literacy technique that helps students build their fluency, self-confidence, and motivation in reading. During ________________ a student, or a group of students reads a passage together, with or without a teacher.
Options: Silent reading, choral reading, guided reading, shared reading, round robin reading.
What is Choral Reading?
A whole language approach that promotes reading and writing through the use of personal experiences and oral language.
It can be used in tutorial or classroom settings with homogeneous or heterogeneous groups of learners.
What is the language experience approach?
A strategy that is used before reading to activate students' prior knowledge and build curiosity about a new topic. Before reading a selection, students respond to several statements that challenge or support their preconceived ideas about key concepts in the text.
Options: semantic gradient, brainstorming, anticipation guide, semantic feature analysis, readers theater
What is anticipation guide?
The ability to read words accurately and quickly.
What is fluency?
A sound made by combining two vowels, specifically when it starts as one vowel sound and goes to another, like the oy sound in oil.
Options: dipthong, blend, digraph
What is a dipthong?
“the outmoded practice of calling on students to read orally one after the other”
Options: Silent reading, choral reading, guided reading, shared reading, round robin reading.
What is Round Robin reading?
Involves breaking words down into individual sounds or syllables.
What is segmenting?
The students' thoughts are written down and are organized into groups. This multi-sensory approach helps reluctant readers make new connections and better understand what they have read.
Options: semantic gradient, brainstorming, anticipation guide, semantic feature analysis, readers theater
What is brainstorming?
The culmination of all of the reading skills and the ultimate goal of learning to read. An active process that requires an intentional and thoughtful interaction between the reader and the text that can be explicitly taught.
What is comprehension?
Certain combinations of two or more consonant letters are called __________. These appear in the beginning or at the end of words to create specific sounds. In these you can hear the sound of each letter.
Options: dipthong, blend, digraph
What is a blend?
A form of school-based recreational reading, or free voluntary reading, where students read to themselves.
Options: Silent reading, choral reading, guided reading, shared reading, round robin reading.
What is silent reading?
What we do when we understand writing.
A strategy that combines reading practice and performing. Its goal is to enhance students' reading skills and confidence by having them practice reading with a purpose.
Options: semantic gradient, brainstorming, anticipation guide, semantic feature analysis, readers theater
What is reader's theater?