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The teacher says word, for example, "bill," has students repeat it, and then instructs
students to repeat the word without the first sound, "ill". - ANS-sound deletion
The teacher says each sound, for example, "/b/, /ɑ/, /l/" and students respond with the
word, "ball." - ANS-oral blending
recognizing the individual sounds in words, for example, "Tell me the first sound you
hear in the word paste" (/p/) - ANS-phoneme isolation
one can turn a word (such as "cat") into another (such as "hat") by substituting one
phoneme (such as /h/) for another (/k/). Phoneme substitution can take place for initial
sounds (cat-hat), middle sounds (cat-cut) or ending sounds (cat-can). - ANS-phoneme
substitution
the part of the syllable that precedes the vowel of the syllable - ANS-onset
the part of a syllable which consists of its vowel and any consonant sounds that come
after it - ANS-rime
A strategy for segmenting sounds in a word that involves drawing a box to represent
each sound in a word. - ANS-Elkonin Box
The ability to hear, identify,and manipulate the individual sounds, phonemes, in oral
language. - ANS-phonemic awareness
an assessment of phoneme segmentation that determines a reader's ability to break a
word apart into sounds (not letters) - ANS-Yopp-Singer Test
a pair of words that vary by only one phoneme, e.g. cook/book, passed/last. - ANS-
minimal pairs
To determine a students independent reading level. An assessment in which a student
reads a selected series of texts that gradually increase in difficulty. The teacher records
errors and assesses comprehension to determine the levels of reading materials
appropriate for the student. The IRI yields three reading levels: Independent,
Instructional and Frustration. - ANS-Informal Reading Inventory (IRI)
Independent Reading Level: decode 95%, comprehension 90%
, Instructional Reading Level: decode 90%, comprehension 60%
Frustration Reading Level: decode less than 90%, comprehension less than 50% -
ANS-reading levels
Also known as miscue analysis. An assessment method that documents a child's
reading as he or she reads aloud and allows the teacher to evaluate the reading level
and track errors. Specific marks are made to indicate the types of errors. - ANS-
Running Record
graphophonemic (feather for father), syntactic (door for wall), semantic (dad for father) -
ANS-Types of oral reading errors
the percentage of the population whose scores fall at or below the student's score. -
ANS-percentile scores
used to describe student's performance in comparison to the performance of an
average student at a specified grade level - ANS-grade equivalent
a method of scaling test scores on a nine-point standard scale with a mean of five (5)
and a standard deviation of two (2) - ANS-stanine
Books with wordplay, rhyming, sound matching, sound isolation, sound blending, sound
addition and substitution, segmentation: Elkonin boxes, word boundaries - ANS-
Phonemic Awareness Instructional Strategies
involves teaching children what they don't know (assessment will tell you), uses flexible
grouping patterns (especially needs-based groups, and timely intervention
(individualized if necessary) - ANS-Differentiated Instruction
Standards-driven, Assessment based, Balanced in instructional focus (methods and
activity), Comprehensive in scope, and provide differentiated instruction to account for
individual differences - ANS-Reading program should be (S-ABCD)
A phrase coined by Marie Clay (1975) including the concepts of directionality (books go
front to back, text reads top to bottom, right to left), words are things we read, letters
stand for sounds we say etc. Clay's inventory includes 24 aspects of "concepts about
print" that children in the emerging literacy stage develop on their way to being readers.
- ANS-Concepts About Print Test
Read aloud to students, the Shared Book Experience, Language Experience
Approach/Group Experience Chart, Environmental Print, Print-rich environment, direct,
explicit teaching - ANS-Concepts About Print Strategies
Concepts About Print Test (Clay), Basal reading series concepts about print tests,
informal test by teacher using picture books, observation records - ANS-Ways to
Assess Concepts About Print
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The teacher says word, for example, "bill," has students repeat it, and then instructs
students to repeat the word without the first sound, "ill". - ANS-sound deletion
The teacher says each sound, for example, "/b/, /ɑ/, /l/" and students respond with the
word, "ball." - ANS-oral blending
recognizing the individual sounds in words, for example, "Tell me the first sound you
hear in the word paste" (/p/) - ANS-phoneme isolation
one can turn a word (such as "cat") into another (such as "hat") by substituting one
phoneme (such as /h/) for another (/k/). Phoneme substitution can take place for initial
sounds (cat-hat), middle sounds (cat-cut) or ending sounds (cat-can). - ANS-phoneme
substitution
the part of the syllable that precedes the vowel of the syllable - ANS-onset
the part of a syllable which consists of its vowel and any consonant sounds that come
after it - ANS-rime
A strategy for segmenting sounds in a word that involves drawing a box to represent
each sound in a word. - ANS-Elkonin Box
The ability to hear, identify,and manipulate the individual sounds, phonemes, in oral
language. - ANS-phonemic awareness
an assessment of phoneme segmentation that determines a reader's ability to break a
word apart into sounds (not letters) - ANS-Yopp-Singer Test
a pair of words that vary by only one phoneme, e.g. cook/book, passed/last. - ANS-
minimal pairs
To determine a students independent reading level. An assessment in which a student
reads a selected series of texts that gradually increase in difficulty. The teacher records
errors and assesses comprehension to determine the levels of reading materials
appropriate for the student. The IRI yields three reading levels: Independent,
Instructional and Frustration. - ANS-Informal Reading Inventory (IRI)
Independent Reading Level: decode 95%, comprehension 90%
, Instructional Reading Level: decode 90%, comprehension 60%
Frustration Reading Level: decode less than 90%, comprehension less than 50% -
ANS-reading levels
Also known as miscue analysis. An assessment method that documents a child's
reading as he or she reads aloud and allows the teacher to evaluate the reading level
and track errors. Specific marks are made to indicate the types of errors. - ANS-
Running Record
graphophonemic (feather for father), syntactic (door for wall), semantic (dad for father) -
ANS-Types of oral reading errors
the percentage of the population whose scores fall at or below the student's score. -
ANS-percentile scores
used to describe student's performance in comparison to the performance of an
average student at a specified grade level - ANS-grade equivalent
a method of scaling test scores on a nine-point standard scale with a mean of five (5)
and a standard deviation of two (2) - ANS-stanine
Books with wordplay, rhyming, sound matching, sound isolation, sound blending, sound
addition and substitution, segmentation: Elkonin boxes, word boundaries - ANS-
Phonemic Awareness Instructional Strategies
involves teaching children what they don't know (assessment will tell you), uses flexible
grouping patterns (especially needs-based groups, and timely intervention
(individualized if necessary) - ANS-Differentiated Instruction
Standards-driven, Assessment based, Balanced in instructional focus (methods and
activity), Comprehensive in scope, and provide differentiated instruction to account for
individual differences - ANS-Reading program should be (S-ABCD)
A phrase coined by Marie Clay (1975) including the concepts of directionality (books go
front to back, text reads top to bottom, right to left), words are things we read, letters
stand for sounds we say etc. Clay's inventory includes 24 aspects of "concepts about
print" that children in the emerging literacy stage develop on their way to being readers.
- ANS-Concepts About Print Test
Read aloud to students, the Shared Book Experience, Language Experience
Approach/Group Experience Chart, Environmental Print, Print-rich environment, direct,
explicit teaching - ANS-Concepts About Print Strategies
Concepts About Print Test (Clay), Basal reading series concepts about print tests,
informal test by teacher using picture books, observation records - ANS-Ways to
Assess Concepts About Print
