Chapter 8- Literacy Strategies

Question 1

Literacy Strategies

Answer 1

The systematic approaches good readers use to extract meaning from text

Question 2

Reading leadership teams

Answer 2

This team works with the principal to ensure effective implementation of the K-12 comprehensive reading plan

Question 3

Comprehensive Core reading program (CCRP)

Answer 3

A research based reading program featuring developmentally appropriate sequenced instruction, materials, activities, and assignments

Guides teachers through developmentally appropriate, systematic explicit Instruction and assessment directed toward student competency in oral language, phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension.

Question 4

Florida’s Formula for Success, 6+4+ii+iii

Answer 4

6 components of reading: Oral language, phonological awareness, phonics, Fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension

4 assessment types: screening, diagnostic, progress monitoring, and outcome measures

Initial instruction (ii): print rich, explicit, systematic, scaffolded, and differentiated and includes considerations for background knowledge and motivation and the reading/writing connection

Immediate intensive intervention (iii) : targeted, systematic, and explicit and includes extended time, smaller group size, and more frequent progress monitoring

Question 5

Just Read, Florida!

Answer 5

Statewide reading initiative

Question 6

Florida Center for reading research (FCRR)

Answer 6

Conduct basic research on reading, reading growth, reading assessment, and reading instruction that will contribute to scientific knowledge of reading and benefit students in Florida throughout the nation

Disseminate information

Technical assistance

Question 7

Florida assessment for instruction in reading (FAIR)

Answer 7

A state wide reading assessment system that provides statewide K – 12 screening, diagnostic, and progress monitoring data. Given three times a year and his offered free of charge to Florida school districts.

Question 8

Progress monitoring and reporting network (PMRN)

Answer 8

A web based data management system that records and report student data from FAIR. Demographic and assessment data are easily assessable to Florida educators with the system Period

Question 9

Reading/literacy coaches

Answer 9

Reading experts hired by districts and assign to schools, based on greatest need, with the goal of improving reading achievement in the assigned school.

Question 10

Emergent literacy

Answer 10

Describes the skills, knowledge, and attitudes that are developmental precursors to conventional forms of reading and writing.

Oral language, concepts of print and letter knowledge, and phonological sensitivity

Question 11

Oral language

Answer 11

The ability to speak and listen.

Classroom discussions, songs, poems, Chance, vocabulary building games, and listening activity should be a central component of early reading instruction

Question 12

Concepts of print

Answer 12

Knowing the difference between the covers and the pages of a book and the difference between pictures and print on a page; knowing that print carries a message, that print in the book is red left to right and top to bottom and that print progresses from front to back across pages; and knowing the uses of upper and lower case letters and punctuation, including spaces between words

Question 13

Letter knowledge

Answer 13

The ability to recognize the name upper and lower case letters.

Question 14

Phonological sensitivity

Answer 14

The ability to detect and manipulate rhymes, syllables, or phonemes.

Usually begins with larger units of speech sounds (words) and progresses to smaller units of sound (syllables) and even smaller (phonemes)

Activities involve rhyming, moving blocks, clapping to count syllables, Identifying CVC words etc.

Question 15

Alphabetic principle

Answer 15

The concept that letters and letter patterns represent the sounds of spoken language.

Question 16

Fluency

Answer 16

The ability to read a text accurately, quickly, and expressively

Includes rate, automaticity (fluent processing of information), prosody (tone)

Instructional approaches:
Repeated and monitored oral reading
Independent silent reading

Question 17

Student-adult reading

Answer 17

The student reads one on one with an adult. The adult reads first as a model. Student reads with the assistance and support of the adult Period student rereads until they achieve fluency.

Question 18

Choral reading

Answer 18

Students read aloud as a group with the teacher or another fluent adult reader.

Question 19

Tape assisted reading

Answer 19

A student reads along with a fluent reader reading a book on a audio tape

Question 20

Partner reading

Answer 20

Students take turns reading aloud to each other. The stronger reader gives help with word recognition and encourages the less fluent reader.

Question 21

Readers’ theater

Answer 21

Students develop a script and dramatize a reading selection or book

Students make the story more interesting by using voice inflection, gestures, facial expressions etc.

Question 22

Vocabulary

Context word mapping

Answer 22

The words that one knows and understands.

A vocabulary development activity where my students enhance their understanding of keywords by graphically mapping them.

Question 23

Word learning strategies

Answer 23

Teachers use modeling, think aloud‘s, and guided practice to assist students in learning the strategies.

• searching for context clues
• Looking at word parts
• Using reference materials

Question 24

Searching for context clues

Answer 24

• Mood and tone
• Definitions
• Signal Words
• Explanations
• Similar Words (synonyms)
• Opposites (antonyms)
• Picture clues

Question 25

Morpheme

Answer 25

Smallest unit of meaning in the language.

Base words, roots, affixes

Question 26

Question answering

Answer 26

Asking and answering questions about the text selection. The best way to introduce question answering is with a visual aid showing the question into relationships.

Taxonomy:
1-Right there
2-Think and search
3-The author and you
4-on your own

Question 27

Reciprocal teaching

Answer 27

Using a teaching strategy in which students are involved in the cognitive strategies of summarizing, questioning, clarifying, and predicting as they read text improve students comprehension

Question 28

Indenting text structure

Answer 28

Teachers use story maps, story grammar, and storyboarding to help students interpret the structure of children’s literature. These include calls/effect, compare/contrast, problem/solution, persuasion/argument, question/answer, definition/explanation, description, and sequence.

Question 29

Multiple strategy instruction

Answer 29

Assisting students in applying and practicing multiple strategies while reading is significant to students self monitoring systems.

Question 30

ISF

Answer 30

Initial sound fluency

Question 31

LNF

Answer 31

Letter naming fluency

Question 32

NWF

Answer 32

Nonsense word fluency

Question 33

ORF

Answer 33

Oral reading fluency

Question 34

PSF

Answer 34

Phoneme segmentation Fluency

Question 35

RTF

Answer 35

Retell Fluency