Using standards/curriculum-based assessments to determine the extent to
which students possess crucial prerequisite skills and knowledge expected at their grade level and to
determine students' current skills and knowledge in a specific area of reading prior to planning instruction
and/or intervention in that area
What is Entry-Level Assessment
100
The ability to say the name of a letter when the teacher points to it; refers to name of letters.
What is letter naming?
100
Fluent readers pronounce words correctly when reading orally
What is accuracy.
100
An interest in words and their meaning.
What is word consciousness?
100
The text structure commonly found in science textbooks in which the author shows how some phenomena results from some other phenomena.
What is cause and effect?
200
Scores that allow for comparisons between the students taking the tests and the national average
What is Norm-referenced Scores
200
This is also referred to as letter production or the ability to write the uppercase and lowercase letter legibly.
What is letter formation?
200
-accuracy
-rate
-prosody
What is key indicators of fluency.
200
These are two different ways to differentiate vocabulary for an advanced learner.
What is increase the pace of instruction and increase the depth or breadth of instruction?
200
The 4 types of text features that can help students better comprehend an expository text?
What is organization, typography, graphics, and instruction on text features?
300
Norm-referenced scores in which a student’s raw score is converted to a school grade level
What are Grade-equivalent Scores
300
Knowledge of how hold a book when reading, locate the front cover and other parts of a book.
What are book-handling skills?
300
Reflects the reader's understanding of the structure of sentences, punctuation, and, to a large extent, the author's purpose
What is prosody.
300
Theory, hypothesis, analysis, synthesis, define, illustrate, and classify are examples of this type of academic language.
What is nontechnical academic language?
300
The 3 phase strategy typically used for teaching students to use text features.
What is the gradual release of responsibility model?
400
This term is short for “standard nine.” Raw scores are converted to a nine-point scale. The number 5 is average, 9 is the top, and 1 is the bottom
What is Stanine Scores
400
Printed messages that people encounter in ordinary, daily living, cartons, menus…
What is environmental print?
400
Many single-syllable words with regular letter-sound correspondences and only a few, irregular high-frequency words.
What is decodable text.
400
Vocabulary instruction should include direct instruction, teaching independent word learning strategies, developing word consciousness, and this.
What is encourage reading?
400
Reviewing a KWL chart and selective rereading are examples of this instructional strategy.
What is linking new reading to what was read in the previous lesson?
500
A chart or summary of how each child is doing in regards to the standards
What is Individual Profile
500
When a student spell a word but doesn't know the accurate spelling.
What is phonetic spelling?
500
Fluent readers read a text at an appropriate rate of speed, neither too fast nor too slow.
What is rate
500
Direct vocabulary instruction should include kid friendly definitions, repeat exposure, and this.
What is explaining how to use target words in the context of reading and writing?
500
These are 4 oral and written activities for assessing a student's understanding of an expository text.
What is evaluating the text, summarizing, creating graphic organizers, or finding similarities/differences between texts on the same topic?