SEE 360 Test

Question 1

Fluency

Answer 1

The ability to read most words in context quickly, accurately, automatically, and with appropriate expression

Question 2

Why is fluency important?

Answer 2

It is critical to reading comprehension. If most of our attention is focused on decoding words, there is little attention left for the comprehension part of reading

Question 3

What needs to be our “first commitment” ?

Answer 3

Make sure your students are all spending some of their time reading easy text. Text in which they are interested and can recognize 98-99% of the words

Question 4

List fluency strategies

Answer 4

Teacher Read Aloud
Choral Reading
Recorded Reading
Radio Reading
Timed Repeated Reading 
Pair Repeated Reading

Question 5

What are high frequency words?

Answer 5

Account for almost half of all the words we read and write. Worth spending time on them. Usually don’t have any meaning and may be pronounced funny.

Question 6

Why can learning high frequency words be difficult?

Answer 6

Because they are not pronounced or spelt in logical ways and have no meaning usually

Question 7

How should you organize a word wall?

Answer 7

Big black ink, thick letters, with a colorful background.
Be selective with the words and have them be really common words.
Add words gradually.
Make words accessible to all students
Practice the words
Use review activities
Make sure words are always spelt correctly in students work

Question 8

Why are assessments like WCMP an DIBELS are problematic?

Answer 8

They are supposed to assess fluency but they don’t. They asses speed a lot of the time.

Question 9

How should we measure fluency?

Answer 9

With a variety of different thoughts in mind. Such as accuracy, expression, comprehension, sight word recognition.

Question 10

Automaticity

Answer 10

Theory of automatic information processing of letters and words into the mind of the reader.

Question 11

Reading Rate

Answer 11

How quickly students can orally read a text

Question 12

Prosody

Answer 12

Vocal inflections

Question 13

Repeated Reading

Answer 13

Reading a text over and over again

Question 14

Choral reading

Answer 14

singing what you are reading

Question 15

Unison Reading

Answer 15

everyone reads together

Question 16

Echo Reading

Answer 16

The teacher (or student) read a text and the audience (class) responds in the same way. Like an echo

Question 17

Readers Theater

Answer 17

Rehearsing and performing before an audience from a script that is rich with dialogue

Question 18

Rule of Thumb

Answer 18

You pick a book that you want and open to any page. For each word you don’t know as you read, you put a finger up. If you get to your thumb the book is too challenging for you.

Question 19

Comprehension

Answer 19

Understanding the authors message. Intentional thinking during reading.

Question 20

Five strategies for comprehension

Answer 20

Activating prior knowledge, questioning, analyzing text structure, creating mental or visual images, summarizing.

Question 21

Retelling

Answer 21

effective process to find out whether children understand what they read

Question 22

Metacognition

Answer 22

(thinking about your own thinking) A readers awareness of how well they understand the reading

Question 23

Text features

Answer 23

structures of the book you are going to teach the children to recognize and to use to improve comprehension

Question 24

Question-Answer Relationships

Answer 24

4 types of questions that help children identify the connection between the type of question asked and the information sources necessary and available for answering it

Question 25

Fix - Up Strategies

Answer 25

ignore the problem and continue reading
suspend judgment for now and continue reading
form a tentative hypothesis
look back and reread the previous sentence
stop and think about previously read context
seek help from the environment

strategies to repair broken comprehension

Question 26

Reader response

Answer 26

discussions about the text

Question 27

Scaffolding

Answer 27

Gradual release of responsibility

Question 28

Strategies (Word Recognition)

Answer 28

Check the pictures
think about the sounds in the word
think of words that might make sense
look for word families/parts you know
read past the puzzling word
go back to the beginning of the sentence
try different pronunciations
break the word into smaller parts

Question 29

Wide oral reading

Answer 29

reading a variety of genres and books with different themes