VOCAB 304

Strategy is to model for students how skilled readers construct meaning from a text.

At which something is read, often expressed in terms of words per minute.

The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.

Is a syllable that ends with a consonant.

Interpret, negotiate, and make meaning from information presented in the form of an image.

Used to support semantic, syntactic, and pragmatic cues to help readers make sense.

Used in beginning reading instruction. Readers can decipher words using the phonics skills.

A rhetorical or literary device in which a writer compares people, places, things.

Repeats the same sentence pattern multiple times with one or two changes in each sentence.

A combination of two letters representing one sound.

A tool that helps teachers to identify patterns in student reading behaviors.

A cooperative learning strategy in which two students work together to read an assigned text

Refers to the string of letters that follow, usually a vowel and final consonants.

Awareness and understanding of one's own thought processes.

A meaningful morphological unit of a language that cannot be further divided

Is a broad skill that includes identifying and manipulating units of oral language

the part of the syllable that precedes the vowel of the syllable

Builds part to whole. Begins with the instruction of the letters with their associated sounds.

An instructional approach when teachers work with students who have similar reading behaviors.

Letters are the symbols used to represent the speech sounds of a language.

The smallest meaningful contrastive unit in a writing system.

Reading comprehension activity, words are omitted from text and students fill in the blanks.

Occurs when the accuracy of the reading goes below 90 percent.

The body of words used in a particular language.

Techniques used progressively toward strong understanding & ultimately, greater independence.

When students join or share the readings while guided and supported by a teacher.

Also referred to as analytical phonics, moves from the whole to the smallest part.

Units of sound in a specified language that distinguish one word from another.

Meaning in language that assists comprehending texts, including words, speech, signs, symbols.

A group of two or three consonants in words that makes a distinct consonant sound.

The action or capability of understanding something.

Refers to the elements or parts of a story or selection

The ability to process it, and understand its meaning.

In which writers identify differences between two subjects, places, persons, things, or ideas.

A new, and often updated or retranslated, version of a story.

Teaching people to read by correlating sounds with letters in an alphabetic writing system.

Refers to the ability to know & recognize the ways which print “works” for purposes of reading.

To hear, identify & manipulate phonemes, the smallest unit of sound to make meaning.

Rereading strategy to help students develop expressive, fluent reading, and print knowledge.

To convey meaning when they read aloud

Constructing meaning with text; when reading, they use their prior knowledge along with clues

students get support of a teacher, parent, or tutor. The greatest progress in reading occurs

Determining what the text means.

Is the fast, effortless word recognition that comes with a great deal of reading practice

Indicate whether each syllable is stressed or unstressed.

Is a syllable that ends in a vowel sound, such as the first syllable in "wiser."

The level at which a child can read a text on his/her own with ease.

A brief statement of the main points.

Reading aloud in unison with a whole class or group of students.

A text quickly to get a general idea of meaning.