Vocabulary

Question 1

Choral Reading

Answer 1

oral reading, often of poetry, that makes various use of voice combinations and contrasts to make meaning or highlight the tonal qualities of a passage.

Question 3

chunking

Answer 3

breaking sentences into more meaningful phrases.

Question 4

semantic mapping

Answer 4

A strategy that shows readers and writers how to organize important information.

Question 5

word knowledge charts

Answer 5

This strategy is a way for teachers to determine the level of knowledge and understanding that individual students and classes have of specific vocabulary words.

Question 6

morphemes

Answer 6

The smallest meaningful unit of a word. A morpheme can be one syllable or more than one syllable. It can be a whole word or a part of a word, such as a prefix or suffix. For example, /un/ is a morpheme that means not.

Question 7

knowledge hypothesis

Answer 7

The suggestion that vocabulary and comprehension reflect general knowledge rather than intellectual ability.

Question 8

instrumental hypothesis

Answer 8

Belief in a causal chain between vocabulary knowledge and comprehension; vocabulary instruction should influence comprehension.

Question 9

categorizing

Answer 9

Critical manipulation of words in relation to other words through labeling ideas, events, or objects.

Question 10

open sort

Answer 10

specific category to pull words from. The open sort stimulates inductive thinking. ex :

Question 11

closed sort

Answer 11

students know the main categories in advance. In other words, they must select and classify words according to the features they have in common with a category. The closed sort reinforces and extends the ability to classify words. Ex: Endicott ED professors.

Question 12

Analogies

Answer 12

A comparison of two similar relationships

Question 13

echo reading

Answer 13

the teacher reads then the students repeat it

Question 14

What are the three factors that are usually used to define fluency? Explain them.

Answer 14

Rate: how fast you read x Accuracy: how well you read = prosody

Question 15

What is prosody?

Answer 15

Oral reading expression. Prosody includes pitch, tone, volume, emphasis, and rhythm in oral reading

Question 16

How is prosody measured?

Answer 16

Use (NAEP) Oral Reading Fluency Scale. This four-level scale focuses on a student’s skill level in phrasing and expression while reading aloud. After listening to an individual student read aloud, the teacher rates the student’s reading. The teacher should also take notes to give the fullest picture of the student’s reading ability.

Question 17

Why is poetry used to improve fluency?

Answer 17

Because when you do poetry, there is generally a built-in rhythm
Poetry has melody, rhythm, pacing, and pitch that support building fluency skills, especially prosody (expression, automaticity, and comprehension).

Question 18

What is Readers’ Theatre? How does it impact fluency?

Answer 18

Readers Theater has been described as a “rehearsed group presentation of a script that is read aloud rather than memorized.” During this activity, emphasis is placed on prosodic reading. Readers Theater provides struggling readers with an authentic purpose, legitimate reason, and motivation to reread text several times. Readers Theater can help to improve students’ oral reading fluency.

Question 19

How does knowledge of morphology impact reading fluency and word knowledge?

Answer 19

Knowledge of morphology will help decipher unfamiliar words. The meaning of unfamiliar affixed words can be derived when encountered if the meaning of the root words and affixes are known.

Question 20

What are your 4 vocabularies?

Answer 20

Listening: words we understand when others speak or read aloud to us
Reading: words we understand when we read them
Speaking: words we use when e talk to others
Writing: words we use when we write

Question 21

which is your largest vocabulary?

Answer 21

The largest now is receptive vocabulary (listening or reading) because people usually recognize more words than they regularly use.

Question 22

Phonological Continuum

Answer 22

Number of words in a sentence
Rhyming
Syllables
Onset and rime
alliteration
Initial sound
Ending sound
Medial sound
Blending
segmenting
substitution
deletion