Concepts About Print (CAP) Correct Answer: Assesses the literacy knowledge of
kindergarten children and early first graders
Skills Assessed: Book handling, directionality, word-by-word matching, and
locating words in print
Diagnostic Assessment Correct Answer: Assessment designed to determine and
diagnose a student's strengths, weaknesses, knowledge and skills
Formative Assessment Correct Answer: Assessment that provides teachers
information about students thinking
Informal Reading Inventory (IRI) Correct Answer: Survey designed to help a
teacher determine a student's reading instructional needs
Leveled Text Correct Answer: Levels of difficulty from the easy books that an
emergent reader might begin with to the longer, complex books that advanced
readers would need
Miscue Analysis Correct Answer: A way of closely observing recording and
analyzing oral reading behaviors to assess how the student is using specific
reading strategies
Portfolio Correct Answer: A collection of student's work
Progress Monitoring Correct Answer: Observing or testing a student's progress
and evaluating the instructional techniques. Goals are established and measured
on a regular basis and instruction is adjusted as needed.
Reading Miscue Inventory Correct Answer: (Running Records) a teacher records a
child's reading behavior, noting miscues, self-corrections, substitutions,
, omissions, etc. Often used to determine advanced, instructional and frustration
level of texts.
Reliability Correct Answer: The dependability of a test, referring to its consistency
of outcomes
Screening Assessment Correct Answer: Given at the beginning of the school year
to determine student's reading level
Spelling Inventory Correct Answer: Survey designed to help a teacher determine a
student's spelling (orthographic) instructional needs
Summative Assessment Correct Answer: Assessment that is comprehensive in
nature
Validity Correct Answer: The extent to which a test measures what it was
intended to measure
Alphabetic Principle Correct Answer: The concept that letters and letter
combinations represent individual phonemes
Auditory Discrimination Skills Correct Answer: The ability to detect differences in
sounds
Awareness of Print Correct Answer: Understanding that print has different
functions depending on the context in which it appears
Blends Correct Answer: Two or more consecutive consonants which retain their
individual sounds
Ex: "bl" in block
Concept of Print Correct Answer: The idea that print must be ordered and
arranged systematically to communicate meaning effectively
Digraphs Correct Answer: Two consecutive consonants that represent one
phoneme
Diphthong Correct Answer: A vowel produced by the tongue shifting positions
during articulation
kindergarten children and early first graders
Skills Assessed: Book handling, directionality, word-by-word matching, and
locating words in print
Diagnostic Assessment Correct Answer: Assessment designed to determine and
diagnose a student's strengths, weaknesses, knowledge and skills
Formative Assessment Correct Answer: Assessment that provides teachers
information about students thinking
Informal Reading Inventory (IRI) Correct Answer: Survey designed to help a
teacher determine a student's reading instructional needs
Leveled Text Correct Answer: Levels of difficulty from the easy books that an
emergent reader might begin with to the longer, complex books that advanced
readers would need
Miscue Analysis Correct Answer: A way of closely observing recording and
analyzing oral reading behaviors to assess how the student is using specific
reading strategies
Portfolio Correct Answer: A collection of student's work
Progress Monitoring Correct Answer: Observing or testing a student's progress
and evaluating the instructional techniques. Goals are established and measured
on a regular basis and instruction is adjusted as needed.
Reading Miscue Inventory Correct Answer: (Running Records) a teacher records a
child's reading behavior, noting miscues, self-corrections, substitutions,
, omissions, etc. Often used to determine advanced, instructional and frustration
level of texts.
Reliability Correct Answer: The dependability of a test, referring to its consistency
of outcomes
Screening Assessment Correct Answer: Given at the beginning of the school year
to determine student's reading level
Spelling Inventory Correct Answer: Survey designed to help a teacher determine a
student's spelling (orthographic) instructional needs
Summative Assessment Correct Answer: Assessment that is comprehensive in
nature
Validity Correct Answer: The extent to which a test measures what it was
intended to measure
Alphabetic Principle Correct Answer: The concept that letters and letter
combinations represent individual phonemes
Auditory Discrimination Skills Correct Answer: The ability to detect differences in
sounds
Awareness of Print Correct Answer: Understanding that print has different
functions depending on the context in which it appears
Blends Correct Answer: Two or more consecutive consonants which retain their
individual sounds
Ex: "bl" in block
Concept of Print Correct Answer: The idea that print must be ordered and
arranged systematically to communicate meaning effectively
Digraphs Correct Answer: Two consecutive consonants that represent one
phoneme
Diphthong Correct Answer: A vowel produced by the tongue shifting positions
during articulation
