Terms

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Automaticity

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decoding that is rapid, accurate and effortless

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Differentiated instruction

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

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Guided reading

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

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Literacy centers

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

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Literature circles

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small heterogeneous, student-directed literature conversations

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Miscue

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

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Phonemic awareness

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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

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Reader's theatre

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

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Reciprocal teaching

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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

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Rime/onset

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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

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Scaffolding

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

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Alphabetic

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principal

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Irregular sight words

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

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Metacognitive

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knowledge of one's own thought process while reading

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Decode

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taking printed words and changing them to spoken words

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Encode

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spell a word

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Phonemes

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smallest unit of speech sounds that distinguishes one word from another

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Emergent literacy

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beginning reading development

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Phonemic awareness

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

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Genre

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

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Phonological awareness

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global term that includes an awareness of words

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Cloze passage

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

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Literary elements

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characters, plot, setting etc.

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Fluency

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recognition of words accurately, rapidly and automatically

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Intonation

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

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Inflection

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alteration in pitch or tone or the voice

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Fine motor

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small muscle movements

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Gross motor

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movements of large muscles

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Writing process

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

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Bloom's Taxonomy

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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

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Recursive

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keep coming back to old learning and building on it

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SQ3R

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

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KWL

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

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Constructivism

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building strategies, vocabulary, experiences to be a successful reader

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ELL

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English Language Learner

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Running Records

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

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High frequency

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words that appear most often in text and speech

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Miscue

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

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Choral reading

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everyone reads together

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Informal reading inventory (IRI)

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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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