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Teaching Reading Praxis 5205
Academic Language - answer✔The language used in textbooks, in classrooms, and on tests
Accuracy (part of fluency) - answer✔Reading words in text with no errors
Affix - answer✔A prefix or suffix
Alliteration - answer✔Repetition of initial consonant sounds
Alphabetic Principle - answer✔An understanding that letters and letter patterns represent the
sounds of spoken words
Anecdotal Record - answer✔An informal, written record, based on observations the teacher
makes of a students progress/activities throughout the day
Antonym - answer✔A word that means the opposite of another word
Automaticity - answer✔Reading without conscious effort or attention to decoding
Basal Reader - answer✔A kind of book that is used to teach reading. It is based on an approach
in which words are used as a whole. The words are used over and over in each succeeding
lesson. New words are added regularly.
Background Knowledge - answer✔Your personal experiences, what you already know.
Base Word (free morpheme) - answer✔A unit of meaning that can stand alone as a whole word
(e.g., friend, pig).
Blending - answer✔Combining parts of a spoken word into a whole representation of the word
(e.g., /p/ /oo/ /l/ to form pool)
Choral Reading - answer✔Reading aloud in unison with a whole class or group of students
(builds fluency)
Chunking - answer✔Breaking words/sentences into meaningful parts (e.g., /yes/ /ter/ /day/ for
yesterday)
Cloze - answer✔Eliminating words from a passage and a student must use context to fill in the
blank with the appropriate word
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Comprehension - answer✔understanding what one is reading (the ultimate GOAL of reading)
Consonant - answer✔Every letter in the alphabet except a, e, I ,o ,u, and sometimes y and w
Consonant Blend - answer✔Two or more consonants grouped together in which each sound is
heard (e.g., /bl/ in block; /str/ in string).
Consonant Digraph - answer✔Two or more consonants grouped together in which one sound is
heard (e.g., /sh/ in shut; /ch/ in churn
Conventions of Print - answer✔The understandings an individual has about the rules or
accepted practices that govern the use of print, and the use of written language. Ex. reading left
to right, top to bottom, words are made of letters, use of spaces between words, upper case
letters, spelling patterns, etc.
Core Instruction - answer✔instruction provided to all students in the class, usually guided by a
comprehensive core reading program
Corrective Feedback - answer✔When an error occurs, the teacher immediately attends to it by
scaffolding instruction
Semantics - answer✔Meaning of words and sentences
D.E.A.R - answer✔Drop Everything And Read
Decodable Text - answer✔Text in which a high proportion of words (80%-90%) comprise
sound-symbol relationships that have already been taught
Decodable Words - answer✔These words contain phonic elements that were previously taught
Decoding - answer✔The act of sounding out a new word
Diagnostic - answer✔Assessment
Digraphs - answer✔two letters that represent on sound (e.g., /ea/ bread; /ch/ chin; /ng sing)
Diphthong - answer✔The sound produced by combining two vowels in to a single syllable or
running together the sound (e.g., ow, oy, ou, and oi)
Direct Instruction - answer✔The teacher defines and teaches a concept, guides students through
its application, and arranges for extended guided practice until mastery is achieved
Direct Vocabulary Instruction - answer✔Planned instruction to pre-teach new, important, and
difficult words
Duet Reading - answer✔An activity where a skilled reader sits next to a learner and the two
read a text simultaneously
Teaching Reading Praxis 5205
Academic Language - answer✔The language used in textbooks, in classrooms, and on tests
Accuracy (part of fluency) - answer✔Reading words in text with no errors
Affix - answer✔A prefix or suffix
Alliteration - answer✔Repetition of initial consonant sounds
Alphabetic Principle - answer✔An understanding that letters and letter patterns represent the
sounds of spoken words
Anecdotal Record - answer✔An informal, written record, based on observations the teacher
makes of a students progress/activities throughout the day
Antonym - answer✔A word that means the opposite of another word
Automaticity - answer✔Reading without conscious effort or attention to decoding
Basal Reader - answer✔A kind of book that is used to teach reading. It is based on an approach
in which words are used as a whole. The words are used over and over in each succeeding
lesson. New words are added regularly.
Background Knowledge - answer✔Your personal experiences, what you already know.
Base Word (free morpheme) - answer✔A unit of meaning that can stand alone as a whole word
(e.g., friend, pig).
Blending - answer✔Combining parts of a spoken word into a whole representation of the word
(e.g., /p/ /oo/ /l/ to form pool)
Choral Reading - answer✔Reading aloud in unison with a whole class or group of students
(builds fluency)
Chunking - answer✔Breaking words/sentences into meaningful parts (e.g., /yes/ /ter/ /day/ for
yesterday)
Cloze - answer✔Eliminating words from a passage and a student must use context to fill in the
blank with the appropriate word
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Comprehension - answer✔understanding what one is reading (the ultimate GOAL of reading)
Consonant - answer✔Every letter in the alphabet except a, e, I ,o ,u, and sometimes y and w
Consonant Blend - answer✔Two or more consonants grouped together in which each sound is
heard (e.g., /bl/ in block; /str/ in string).
Consonant Digraph - answer✔Two or more consonants grouped together in which one sound is
heard (e.g., /sh/ in shut; /ch/ in churn
Conventions of Print - answer✔The understandings an individual has about the rules or
accepted practices that govern the use of print, and the use of written language. Ex. reading left
to right, top to bottom, words are made of letters, use of spaces between words, upper case
letters, spelling patterns, etc.
Core Instruction - answer✔instruction provided to all students in the class, usually guided by a
comprehensive core reading program
Corrective Feedback - answer✔When an error occurs, the teacher immediately attends to it by
scaffolding instruction
Semantics - answer✔Meaning of words and sentences
D.E.A.R - answer✔Drop Everything And Read
Decodable Text - answer✔Text in which a high proportion of words (80%-90%) comprise
sound-symbol relationships that have already been taught
Decodable Words - answer✔These words contain phonic elements that were previously taught
Decoding - answer✔The act of sounding out a new word
Diagnostic - answer✔Assessment
Digraphs - answer✔two letters that represent on sound (e.g., /ea/ bread; /ch/ chin; /ng sing)
Diphthong - answer✔The sound produced by combining two vowels in to a single syllable or
running together the sound (e.g., ow, oy, ou, and oi)
Direct Instruction - answer✔The teacher defines and teaches a concept, guides students through
its application, and arranges for extended guided practice until mastery is achieved
Direct Vocabulary Instruction - answer✔Planned instruction to pre-teach new, important, and
difficult words
Duet Reading - answer✔An activity where a skilled reader sits next to a learner and the two
read a text simultaneously
