Praxis 5206 Teaching Reading Latest Update Rated A

Praxis 5206 Teaching Reading Latest Update Rated A Readability Formula Ranks text by numerical values based on syntactic and semantic difficulty Rubric It provides specific criteria for describing student performance Frustration Level A score of less than 90 percent on word recognition or less than 50 percent on comprehension norm referenced test Can't be constructed by the classroom teacher Chief advantage of standardized tests Teachers can compare their groups of students with other groups in similar situations criterion-referenced test Measures a student's mastery of a specific skill Standardized Tests Are not part of alternative assessment day-to-day observation The most useful type of assessment for classroom teachers Holistic Assessment The type of assessment that includes self-evaluation Types of Observation strategies Anecdotal records, checklists, and rating scales When a child reads "John called his mom" instead of "John called his mother" what does this tell about miscue The miscue is not important; the child simply used a more familiar term Running Record Provides insights into a student's reading strengths and weaknesses Alphabetic Principle Alphabet must be learned before a child can read Literacy Concept Occurs naturally from within a child Phonemic Awareness An understanding that speech consists of a series of small sounds What doesn't promote a share book experience Memorizing rules about letter sound relationships Dramatic Play occurs when Children simulate real-life experiences watching a video Is a vicarious learning experience Using invented spelling to write to a pen pal or a friend Is the most appropriate writing activity for an emergent literacy classroom prefixes and suffixes They can change the parts of speech and meaning of their root words Aspects of structural analysis Syllabication, prefixes and Compound Words When figuring out pronunciation of words students should? Only use a dictionary as a last resort Which is not another way to say sight words Phonics Approach Categories of words that are good to teach as sight words Irregularly spelled words, words that are meaningful to children and extremely useful words context clues can't exist in Spelling Function words such as the words the and or Have syntactic meaning only To use a dictionary effectively a student must know How to use guide words,alphabetic order, and how interpret the pronunciation key homographs Are words that look alike but have different meanings and often different pronunciations Close Passage A strategy to teach context clues that uses a passage where terms are systematically deleted and replaced with blanks Alphabetic Layer Represents the first layer in the word study instruction sequence Phonics Techniques Help students pair oral and written words A single vowel preceding an r Is sounded but is neither long nor short When does the letter y have characteristics of a vowel In the final position in a word or syllable Goal of reading Comprehension Consonant blend The term for two or more adjacent consonants in the same syllable, with each individual sound retaining its identity The Schwa sound is ordinarily found Unaccented Syllables Every syllable contains a Vowel sound rote knowledge of phonics generalizations Is more effective than connecting the generalizations to experience Games are more effective for students with a fear of win/lose situations when the children compete with Their own previous records The relevance of learning sound-symbol associations is much clearer when children see letters and sounds as Part of a meaning bearing system The phonics teaching approach used does not matter as much as the fact that the teacher Tries all various approaches Act of reading is composed of The reading process and the reading product schemata The preexisting clusters of information that people develop about things Reading for enjoyment can provide Vicarious experiences, relaxation and aesthetic pleasure hearing Is not part of the reading process Word-calling when a teacher asks a student to read aloud while classmates follow Does not necessarily lead to comprehension Children are likely to develop positive attitudes toward reading When their peers view reading in a positive way, when parents read in the home and when parents provide them with reading materials ELL students and students from other cultures Comprehend and remember best texts that are actually familiar Top-Down Is the term for reader-based processing of print Listening, viewing and reading are Receptive phases of language Refinement of a person's ready skills should Never end What should you not do when teaching ELL students Maintaining an English only reading environment Interactive process of reading The reader uses both background knowledge and the information from the text to interpret the material Expressive processes are? Speaking, Visually presenting and writing Personal interests are part of which domain Affective Graphemes Are printed symbols such as letters or letter combinations Meta cognitive strategies include Self-questioning, rereading, predicting and purpose setting Transaction is? Is what Rosenblatt said is where the text comes into between the reader and the text