FOUNDATIONS OF READING Flashcards
Inferential Comprehension
____ was (not) able to draw conclusions using background knowledge and information from text. Inferential information is implied within the text, but not directly or explicitly stated. _____ needed to “search and find” clues within the text and then read between the lines
Sight Words
____ could (not) identify sight words. ____ was (not) able to identify some words as whole united without breaking the word down by phonemes and morphology. Two types of words should be learned as sight words: those with irregular spelling patterns and those that appear frequently in printed English, high frequency words
Phonics
____ was (not) able to make the correct association between the sounds and the symbols of language
Word Structure/Structural Analysis
Morphology is the study of word formation. ____ was (not) able to use morphological clues to identify words when they rely on root words, prefixes, and suffixes. Using morphological clues is also called structural analysis
Literal Comprehension
_____ was (not) able to recall basic information explicitly stated in the text. The read was (not) able to distinguish between more significant details and less significant information
Self-Monitoring
____ was (not) able to be aware of what they do understand, identify what they do not understand, and use appropriate fix up strategies. ____ was (not) able to evaluate their comprehension of what they are reading and realize when they do not understand the text
Engagement of Schema
____ (does not) use background knowledge about how stories work to understand the text and it’s meaning. A schema id a mental framework that the reader uses to organize and construct meaning.
Context Clues
____ was (not) able to figure out an unknown word by knowing the meaning of the words surrounding the unknown word. When ____ does (not do) this, they have (not) used the context of the sentence or paragraph to identify the words
Phoneme Segmentation
- break a word into its separate sounds
- helps with writing
Standardized
Test has established non-varying procedure
DRA2
Helps you determine each child’s instructional plan and pinpoint students’ strengths, abilities through a 4 step plan
Purpose of DRA2
- Monitor student growth in skills and strategies
- Help teachers diagnose students’ needs and plan for instruction
- Prepare students to be successful
- Support teachers and school districts in keeping parents informed
Vocabulary
Knowledge of the individual word meanings in a text and the concepts that those words convey
How can a student show they have phonological awareness?
- Identify and make oral rhymes
- Identify and work with syllables in spoken words
- Identify onsets and rimes in spoken syllables or one syllable words
- Identify individual phonemes in spoken words
Phonemic Awareness
The ability to notice, think about, and manipulate the individual sounds in spoken words
Fluency
- The ability of readers to read quickly, effortlessly, and efficiently with good, meaningful expression
- Phrasing, expression, accuracy, and rate
Traditional Reading Groups
- Teaching skills take a long time
- Lessons focus on decoding words, finding/telling answers
- Predetermined text
- Vocab introduced in isolation
- Standardized tests
- Choral/round robin reading
Frustration Level
- 89% and below
- withheld at this level until instructional level rises
- difficult for the reader
- more than 1 in 10 words are difficult
How can you teach CAP
- Big book readings
- Language experience approach (LEA)
- Environmental print
- print-rich environment
- language experience
Reliability
Test consistently measures things the same way with different groups
Validity
Test measures what it set out to measure
GO Shape Story
TRIANGLE: beginning: setting, characters, problem/goals
SQUARE: middle: sequence 4 event
CIRCLE: end: resolution/solution
Vocabulary Detective
Finds + defines unknown words
Phoneme Deletion
Recognize what remains when a phoneme is removed from another word
Thin VS thick Questions
Thin: “cut and dry”, answers found in the test, basic recall
Thick: make you think, not found in text-use text and brain, higher level thinking
Consonants
Speech sounds that occur when the airflow is obstructed in some way by your mouth, teeth or lips
Phonemes
- the individual sounds that make up a word
- “speech sounds”
- smallest part of spoken language
Syllabication
Knowledge of common syllable types CV (open), CVC (closed)
Automaticity
Correct word identification (accuracy) and appropriate speed (rate), fast effortless word recognition
How to teach sight words
- 20 word chant
- Word walks
- Word bank/ring
4 Steps of DRA2
- Reading engagement
- 1 on 1 reading conferences
- Comprehension
- Teacher analysis
Vowel
Sounds made when the air leaving your lungs is vibrated in the voice box and there is a clear passage from the voice box to your mouth
Etymology
The origin of words
Narrative Text
Tells about sequence of events, usually with a structure of a story, fiction, written to entertain
Content area literacy
The reading and writing tasks that students complete while learning the content
Direct Vocab Instruction
- Taught both individual words and word learning strategies
- Specific word instruction
Indirectly Develop Vocab
- Daily oral language (conversations)
- Listen to adults read
- Read on their own
Connector
- text to text
- text to self
- text to world
Literal Comprehension
- Identifying factual ideas that are explicitly stated in the text
- Recall and recognition of ideas (answers found in text)
- Who, what, where, when
- Main idea, important details, sequence of events
Inferential Comprehension
- Uncovering idea that are not only implied
- Understand implies meaning
- How, why
- Infer main idea, cause-effect relationships, possible endings, why a character acted a way
3 Levels of Comprehension
- Literal
- Inferential
- Evaluative
Morphology (structural analysis)
- The study of word formation
- Root words, prefixes, suffixes
Context clues
The use of surrounding words to identify and know the meaning of an unknown word
Phonics
The ability to make the association between the sounds and symbols of language
The relationship between letters and the sounds that they make
Sight Words
Words thought as whole unties
Those with irregular spelling patterns and those that appear frequently
Word Identification Strategies
Phonics
Contextual Analysis
Morpheme Analysis
Sight words
How do you calculate WPM (Words Per Minute)
# of words correctly —————————- x 60 # of words to read
How to assess fluency
Timed repeated readings - 100 word passages
Graph fluency progress in WPM
Rubric score kms continue for DRA2
- Intervention/frustration
- Instructional
- Independent
- Advanced
What is involved in good retelling?
Students will be able to:
- recall important info from the text
- tell the story in order
- sequence main events in order
Criterion referenced
Student performance is measured against a rubric/continuum