KPEERI READING INSTRUCTION Organized Study Guide
1. FOUNDATIONS OF READING & LITERACY
Term Definition
Includes reading, writing, and the creative/analytical
Literacy
acts involved in producing and comprehending texts.
Skills, knowledge, and attitudes that are
Emergent Literacy developmental precursors to conventional reading
and writing.
Understanding that spoken words are made up of
Alphabetic Principle
sounds that can be represented by letters in print.
5 Components of Phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary,
Reading comprehension.
Simple View of Reading Comprehension = Decoding × Language
Reading Comprehension.
,Term Definition
Scarborough’s Word Recognition + Language Comprehension
Reading Rope woven together for skilled reading.
Awareness and monitoring of one’s own
Metacognition
thinking/learning while reading.
Prior Knowledge /
Knowledge and experience readers bring to the text.
Schema
Background Information and experiences connected to text; also
Knowledge called schema.
Performing a skill with little conscious effort after
Automaticity
extended practice.
Learner who predicts, organizes, monitors, and
Strategic Learner
interacts with text.
2. PHONOLOGICAL & PHONEMIC AWARENESS
, Term Definition
Phonological Broad skill including identifying/manipulating
Awareness words, syllables, onsets/rimes.
Phonemic Ability to notice, think about, and manipulate
Awareness individual sounds in spoken words.
Phoneme Smallest unit of sound that changes word meanin
Onset Initial consonant, blend, or digraph in a syllable.
Rime Vowel and any following consonants in a syllable.
Combining separately spoken phonemes into a
Phoneme Blending
word.
Phoneme
Breaking a word into its separate sounds.
Segmentation
Phoneme Isolation Identifying a specific sound in a word.
Phoneme Identity Recognizing the same sound in different words.
1. FOUNDATIONS OF READING & LITERACY
Term Definition
Includes reading, writing, and the creative/analytical
Literacy
acts involved in producing and comprehending texts.
Skills, knowledge, and attitudes that are
Emergent Literacy developmental precursors to conventional reading
and writing.
Understanding that spoken words are made up of
Alphabetic Principle
sounds that can be represented by letters in print.
5 Components of Phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary,
Reading comprehension.
Simple View of Reading Comprehension = Decoding × Language
Reading Comprehension.
,Term Definition
Scarborough’s Word Recognition + Language Comprehension
Reading Rope woven together for skilled reading.
Awareness and monitoring of one’s own
Metacognition
thinking/learning while reading.
Prior Knowledge /
Knowledge and experience readers bring to the text.
Schema
Background Information and experiences connected to text; also
Knowledge called schema.
Performing a skill with little conscious effort after
Automaticity
extended practice.
Learner who predicts, organizes, monitors, and
Strategic Learner
interacts with text.
2. PHONOLOGICAL & PHONEMIC AWARENESS
, Term Definition
Phonological Broad skill including identifying/manipulating
Awareness words, syllables, onsets/rimes.
Phonemic Ability to notice, think about, and manipulate
Awareness individual sounds in spoken words.
Phoneme Smallest unit of sound that changes word meanin
Onset Initial consonant, blend, or digraph in a syllable.
Rime Vowel and any following consonants in a syllable.
Combining separately spoken phonemes into a
Phoneme Blending
word.
Phoneme
Breaking a word into its separate sounds.
Segmentation
Phoneme Isolation Identifying a specific sound in a word.
Phoneme Identity Recognizing the same sound in different words.
