A formula that helps students read: Independent Reading Level +Personal Interest=Best chance of success!!
What is the I+I Strategy
100
To help children become aware that sentences are made up of words also requires children to detect and identify word boundaries.
What is word awareness?
100
The teacher responds to each student's effort.
What is teacher feedback.
100
playing with synonyms, antonyms, homophones, idioms, puns, and poetry can all help develop this in students.
What is word consciousness?
100
One dependent clause and one independent clause.
What is complex sentence.
200
A time in the classroom when everyone reads silently; no interruptions, and the adults have to be silent as well. This can be anywhere between 5 minutes to 30 minutes.
What is Sustained Silent Reading (SSR)
200
This is more difficult than word awareness because syllables are meaningless by themselves.
What is syllable awareness?
200
The teacher selects a passage for the student and then determines a challenging but attainable, rate criterion.
What is timed reading.
200
Words that students are completely unfamiliar with are called unknown; words that students have a partial knowledge of are called acquainted; words that students know well and understand immediately are called this.
What is established?
200
Literal, inferential, evaluative.
What is levels of comprehension skills.
300
A test with an established, non-varying procedure. They have a manual for those who are administering the test-a script that has instructions and time limits
What is Standardized Instruction
300
Pictures can be used to illustrate the combination of 2 single syllable words into a compound word.
What is word blending?
300
Student partners take turns reading aloud a text.
What is paired reading.
300
Four main strategies for effective direct instruction of vocabulary.
What are contextual redefinition, semantic maps, semantic feature analysis, and word sorts>
300
The ability of a reader to interpret what s/he has read
What is inferential comprehension.
400
A test is considered to have this, if the results of the test yield consistent scores across administrations. In other words, if you were to take Form A of a test on April 1 and Form B on April 2, your scores would be considered reliable if they were almost identical.
What is Reliability
400
Children are required to blend two syllables into a word.
What is syllable blending?
400
Reading a story with dialogue, the child reader becomes an actor and sounds like the character should sound.
What is appropriate characterization.
400
These are 3 word learning strategies that will help students learn new vocabulary independently.
What is morpheme analysis, contextual analysis, and using a dictionary?
400
The ability of a reader to interpret what she/he has read.
What is evaluative comprehension.
500
Something that measures what it claims to measure. This is a significant issue in the assessment of reading development.
What is Validity
500
The ability to identify both the uppercase and lowercase letters when a teacher says the name of the letter.
What is letter recognition?
500
After a timed reading the teacher will calculate correct words per minute.
What is rate.
500
The first tier of academic vocab includes words that students will know without instruction; the second tier includes words that are more difficult and appear in several contexts; the third tier includes these types of words.
What are words that are used in only one specific domain?
500
The ability of a reader to understand the surface meaning of a text.