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Components of Effective Literacy Instruction - ANSWERSphonological and phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension The Big Five - ANSWERSNickname for the five essential components of effective literacy instruction National Reading Panel - ANSWERSoutlined the give essential components of effective literacy instruction in report (year 2000) What is the importance of the sound/symbol system? - ANSWERSunderstanding sounds/symbols enables students to sound out unfamiliar words, enables students to build orthographic patterns, enables students to perceive larger chunks of words, and enables students to use the context more efficiently Sound/symbol foundation - ANSWERSphonemic awareness and instant letter recognition Alphabetic Principle - ANSWERSa phoneme is represented by a grapheme phoneme - ANSWERSsmallest unit of sound in a word which effects meaning grapheme - ANSWERSletter or group of letters used to represent one sound Reading and Written Expressive Language - ANSWERSthe two components of Literacy Instruction Decoding and Comprehension - ANSWERSthe two components of reading Mechanics and Composition/Creativity - ANSWERSthe two components of Written Expressive Language Opportunities and Direct Instruction - ANSWERSthe two components of instruction Decoding - ANSWERSinstant word recognition, phonemic awareness, sound/symbol association (instant letter recognition), structural analysis, context Listening Comprehension - ANSWERSoral language (most important!), world knowledge, strategic thinking, inference making Fluency - ANSWERSbridge between decoding and comprehension Comprehension - ANSWERSthe ultimate goal of reading Instant Word Recognition - ANSWERSacquired through repeated exposure to the word and from over learning the patterns of language Mechanics - ANSWERSsentence structure, paragraph structure, spelling, handwriting (writer should be comfortable with spelling and handwriting)