Academic Language - Answer The language of textbooks, of the classroom, and of tests
Accuracy-part of fluency - Answer Reading words in text without any errors
Affix - Answer A prefix or a suffix
Alliteration - Answer Repeating sounds at the beginning of consonants
Alphabetic Principle - Answer An understanding that letters and letter patterns stand for
sounds of spoken words
Anecdotal Record - Answer An informal written record, based on observations the
teacher makes of a students progress/activities throughout the day
Antonym - Answer A word that means the opposite of another word
Automaticity - Answer Reading without conscious effort or attention to decoding
Basal Reader - A type of book used to teach reading. It is based upon an approach in
which words are used as wholes. The words are then used repeatedly in each
succeeding lesson. New words are incorporated on a regular basis.
Background Knowledge - Your experiences, what you know already.
,Base Word (free morpheme) A unit of meaning that could stand alone as a whole word,
e.g. friend, pig.
Blending The pulling together of parts of a spoken word into a whole representation of
the word such as /p/ /oo/ /l/ to say pool
Choral Reading Reading aloud in unison with a whole class or group of students builds
fluency
Chunking Breaking words/sentences into meaningful parts ex. /yes/ /ter/ /day/ for
yesterday
Cloze Deleting words from a passage and a student must use context to fill in the blank
with the appropriate word
Comprehension Understanding what one is reading the ultimate GOAL of reading
Consonant Every letter in the alphabet except a, e, I ,o ,u, and sometimes y and w
Consonant Blend - Answer Two or more consonants put together in a word which you
say the sound of each (e.g. /bl/ in block; /str/ in string).
Consonant Digraph - Answer Two or more consonants put together in a word which you
say only one sound (e.g. /sh/ in shut; /ch/ in churn
Conventions of Print - Answer The understandings an individual has about the rules or
accepted practices that govern the use of print, and the use of written language. Ex.
reading left to right, top to bottom, words are made of letters, use of spaces between
words, upper case letters, spelling patterns, etc.
Core Instruction - Response instruction provided for all students in the class, often
, driven by a comprehensive core reading program
Corrective Feedback - Response When an error is made, immediately addressing it with
the teacher scaffolding instruction
Semantics - Response the meaning of words and sentences
D.E.A.R - Response Drop Everything And Read
Decodable Text - Response text that contains a high percentage of words (80%-90%)
that comprise sound-symbol relationships that have already been taught
Decodable Words - Mark These words contain phonic elements that were previously
taught
Decoding - Mark The act of sounding out a new word
Diagnostic - Mark Assessment
Digraphs - Mark two letters that represent on sound (e.g., /ea/ bread; /ch/ chin; /ng sing)
Diphthong - Mark The sound produced by combining two vowels in to a single syllable or
running together the sound (e.g., ow, oy, ou, and oi)
Direct Instruction - Answer The teacher explicitly states an idea and explains it and then
the students use it with guidance from the teacher until mastery is achieved
Direct Vocabulary Instruction - Answer Planned instruction to pre-teach new, important
and difficult words
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