Quiz! Literacy Terminology

This is the study of sentence formation using grammatical structures and how these sructures are ordered.

A best practice approach to teach students to apply a literacy strategy to support comprehension/ content learning

A complex activity that involves developmental, social, cognitive, and emotional components

When a student monitors and regulates his/her own reading, this is an example of metacognition.

Problem-solving approach emphasizing the nature of the problem, planning a solution, & monitoring; 1 of many definitions

A strategy to immerse students in language by posting new vocabulary as it is encountered

Which of the following is not characteristic of the scaffolding process?

Good readers use _________, or the words in the textual setting, to determine a word's meaning.

One of the five pillars of reading that involves explicit instruction in letter-sound relationships

An explanation of the Pythagorean Theorem most exemplifies this kind of writing.

Smallest unit of sound represented in the English language

When students use ____, they process words into comprehensible thoughts .

What type of word association does this represend-- sedimentary: detritus:: igneous: magma

Way of reading a text that questions power binaries, assumptions, perspectives, class, etc.

Addressing words through the use of games, tongue twisters, metaphores, and rhyming

Knowing a text's ______ helps readers understand the organizational pattern of ideas, helping them to comprehend.

A collection of all the words in a language and their meaning

Listening for a specific purpose

Non-print texts usually convey a _________.

Readers often rely on their ______, a cognitive approach to organizing, planning, and executing reading tasks.

Prose and poetry are examples of this.

Which is not an example of a non-print text?

Which answer does not relate to the reading process?

For something to be considered a text, it must include print.

The understanding that spoken words may also be printed words

A type of authentic literacy assessment

A type of brainstorming that helps organize thinking

What this group of words represents-- subtraction, substitution, proportion

Occurs during an informal reading inventory when a student mispronounces a word or makes a comprehension error

Words like "the" and "of" are examples of this kind of word that is taught as a whole unit, not sounded out.

Phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and _____ are part of a balanced literacy approach.

Reading with speed, accuracy, expression, and comprehension

Drawing on readers' _____ _______ helps them connect what they already know to a text or new learning.

Which three components make up the reading process?

Reading, noting strengths/weaknesses in developing/attaining meaning and then adjusting one's reading process

Choose the answer that contains only examples of paired reading.

A student who has strong __________ reads smoothly with little attention and time spent decoding.