Science of Reading
number of main components are in the Science of Reading
What is 5?
the ability to identify, isolate, and manipulate individual sounds (phonemes) in spoken words
What is phonemic awareness?
a written symbol that represents a single phoneme (sound)
What is a grapheme?
the ability to correctly identify and pronounce words in a text with minimal or no mistakes
What is accuracy?
the smallest unit of meaning
What is a morpheme?
the Wisconsin state law that requires all Wisconsin public schools and private institutions to instruct 4K to 3rd-grade students in science-aligned literacy Science of Reading-SoR)
the smallest unit of sound
What is a phoneme?
The understanding of relationships between written letters (graphemes) and their corresponding sounds. Recognizing letters and blends and the sounds that they make.
What is phonics?
the ability to read aloud with appropriate intonation, emotion, and phrasing that mirrors natural speech
What is prosody or expression?
is the study of words, how they are formed, and their relationship to other words in the same language
What is morphology?
the research of what matters and what works in literacy instruction - evidence-based understanding of how humans learn to read
The process of putting together individual sounds within a word to say the word aloud
What is blending?
the process of translating printed words into speech by associating letters with their corresponding sounds
What is decoding?
words that young readers can recognize instantly, without the need to decode or sound them out
What are sight words?
a technique makes the invisible mental processes visible, helping learners understand and develop comprehension skills
What is a think aloud?
the 4th stage of reading development: reading independently and fluently, focus on deeper meaning
What is fluent?
The ability to recognize and manipulate the sound properties of spoken words, such as syllables, initial sounds, rhyming parts, and phonemes.
unit of pronunciation having one vowel sound, with or without surrounding consonants, forming the whole or a part of a word
What is a syllable?
the ability to quickly, accurately, and effortlessly recognize or decode words without conscious effort
What is automaticity?
being aware of our understanding, monitoring our comprehension, and actively using strategies to enhance our learning from what we read (thinking about our thinking)
What is metacognition?
the term for the ability to read and write
What is literacy?
two consecutive letters that combine to make one sound, such as: consonant digraphs: ch-, sh-, th- OR oa, ee, ai
What is a digraph?
when two or more words in a phrase or sentence start with the same consonant sound
What is an alliteration?
the process of storing a word permanently in memory for instant retrieval
What is orthographic mapping?
a method of literary analysis that involves a careful and detailed examination of a text to uncover its deeper meanings / reading the same text multiple times
What is close reading?