Terms

Automaticity

decoding that is rapid, accurate and effortless

Differentiated instruction

relevant/challenging instruction that meets needs and interests of each learner

Guided reading

teaching technique in which students read a chosen book at their reading level, the teacher instructs a skill/strategy lesson

Literacy centers

areas organized for independent, self-managed, student work while the teacher is working with one student or in small groups

Literature circles

small heterogeneous, student-directed literature conversations

Miscue

any departure from a written text, ex: substituting, omitting, and reversing

Phonemic awareness

awareness of the fact that sounds make up spoken words, being able to discriminate between different consonants and to sequence each small unit of sound (phoneme) in a word

Reader's theatre

performing part of a text orally for an audience from a script, few or no props

Reciprocal teaching

interactive, scaffolded instruction for strengthening reading comprehension, the teacher or other leads a group of students through a text to understand it, emphasis 4 strategies-generating a question, clarifying, predicting, summarizing

Rime/onset

the rime is the part of the syllable that begins with the vowel and comes after the onset. The onset is the part of the syllable that comes before the vowel; it consists of one or more consonants. For example, in the word clay, cl is the onset and ay is

Scaffolding

temporary support from a teacher, parent or peer that enables the learner to succeed

Alphabetic

principal

Irregular sight words

sight words that cannot be taught using phonics, they must be taught visually not auditorily through phonics

Metacognitive

knowledge of one's own thought process while reading

Decode

taking printed words and changing them to spoken words

Encode

spell a word

Phonemes

smallest unit of speech sounds that distinguishes one word from another

Emergent literacy

beginning reading development

Phonemic awareness

the understanding or insight that a word is made up of a series of discrete sounds

Genre

types of text, mystery, historical fiction, different types of literature

Phonological awareness

global term that includes an awareness of words

Cloze passage

reading passage of approximately 250 words, after 25th word, every 5th word is omitted

Literary elements

characters, plot, setting etc.

Fluency

recognition of words accurately, rapidly and automatically

Intonation

manner of producing or uttering tones, esp. with the accuracy of pitch

Inflection

alteration in pitch or tone or the voice

Fine motor

small muscle movements

Gross motor

movements of large muscles

Writing process

writing is a process that involves at least 4 distinct steps: prewriting, drafting, revising, editing

Bloom's Taxonomy

you need to investigate on the internet about the types of questions if you are not familiar with. 6 levels - knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation

Recursive

keep coming back to old learning and building on it

SQ3R

strategy for non-fiction textbook material--survey, question, read, recite and review

KWL

strategy used before, during, and after reading non-fiction text

Constructivism

building strategies, vocabulary, experiences to be a successful reader

ELL

English Language Learner

Running Records

teacher marks student repsonses while student reads aloud; miscue analysis done from record

High frequency

words that appear most often in text and speech

Miscue

deviations from a text that a reader makes when reading aloud a passage (reading errors)

Choral reading

everyone reads together

Informal reading inventory (IRI)

selections for students to read aloud to diagnose reading: Independent Level - 99% word recognition - 95% or higher comprehension
Instructional Level - 90% word recognition - 75% or higher comprehension
Frustration Level - below 90% word recognition
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