Praxis 5302 Reading
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, Phonemic awareness Part of phonological awareness.
Definition
Instructional approaches and interventions The ability to hear and manipulate individual phonemes.
Instructional approaches:
- Hearing, differentiating, and producing rhyme
- Recognizing and differentiating sounds
- Blending syllables
- Segmentation
Concepts of print Awareness of how books, print, and written language function.
Definition
Instructional approaches and interventions Instructional approaches:
- Read left to right, top to bottom
- Parts of the book
- sentences start with capital letters and end with periods
- Book handling
- What is a word
Alphabetic principle The understanding that letters/letter patterns represent the sounds of spoken
Definition language.
Instructional approaches and interventions
Instruction:
- Teach letter-sound relationships explicitly
- Opportunities to practice in context
- Add new ones and review learned ones frequently
Decoding skills The ability to apply knowledge of letter-sound relationships to correctly
Definition pronounce written words.
Instructional approaches and interventions
Instruction:
- Explicit
- Repetition
- Phonic instruction
- Opportunities for application
- Manipulatives like sound boxes, magnetic letters, counters
Printed-word recognition Students can quickly and automatically translate the letters or spelling patterns
of written words into speech sounds so that they can identify words and access
their meanings.
Instruction:
- Sight words
- Opportunities for students to decode words and find their meanings
- Opportunities to practice
Specialist | Study Guide,
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, Phonemic awareness Part of phonological awareness.
Definition
Instructional approaches and interventions The ability to hear and manipulate individual phonemes.
Instructional approaches:
- Hearing, differentiating, and producing rhyme
- Recognizing and differentiating sounds
- Blending syllables
- Segmentation
Concepts of print Awareness of how books, print, and written language function.
Definition
Instructional approaches and interventions Instructional approaches:
- Read left to right, top to bottom
- Parts of the book
- sentences start with capital letters and end with periods
- Book handling
- What is a word
Alphabetic principle The understanding that letters/letter patterns represent the sounds of spoken
Definition language.
Instructional approaches and interventions
Instruction:
- Teach letter-sound relationships explicitly
- Opportunities to practice in context
- Add new ones and review learned ones frequently
Decoding skills The ability to apply knowledge of letter-sound relationships to correctly
Definition pronounce written words.
Instructional approaches and interventions
Instruction:
- Explicit
- Repetition
- Phonic instruction
- Opportunities for application
- Manipulatives like sound boxes, magnetic letters, counters
Printed-word recognition Students can quickly and automatically translate the letters or spelling patterns
of written words into speech sounds so that they can identify words and access
their meanings.
Instruction:
- Sight words
- Opportunities for students to decode words and find their meanings
- Opportunities to practice
