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Reading Comprehension - ANSWER-the ability to read text, process it, and understand
its meaning
Literacy - ANSWER-the ability to read and write
Skills needed for Literacy - ANSWER-Phonemic Awareness
Phonics
Vocab
Comprehension
Fluency
Phonemic Awareness - ANSWER-The ability to hear, identify,and manipulate the
individual sounds, phonemes, in oral language.
phoneme - ANSWER-in language, the smallest distinctive sound unit
Grapheme - ANSWER-A written representation of a sound using one or more letters.
, Phonics - ANSWER-the sounds that letters make and the letters that are used to
represent sounds
vocabulary - ANSWER-the body of words used in a particular language.
Fluency - ANSWER-smoothness of speech
Semantic - ANSWER-emphasizes the meaning of words
Syntactic - ANSWER-Emphasizes the order of the words.
Literal Comprehension - ANSWER-Refers to the skills a reader uses to deal with the
actual words in a text. Involves skills such as:
ID the Topic Sentence
Main idea
important facts
supporting details
context clues to determine meaning
sequencing events
Critical Comprehension - ANSWER-Prior knowledge and an understanding that written
material especially nonfiction is written from the authors view point
Analysis of meaning
Evaluation
Validation
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