Assessing Five Components of Reading Flashcards
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What is Phonemic Awareness?
The ability to hear and manipulate sounds in words
What is phoneme matching?
The ability to identify words that begin with the same sound (i.e. sat and sip sound alike)
What is phoneme isolation?
The ability to isolate a single sound from within a word (i.e. isolate the /b/ sound in bat)
What is phoneme blending?
The ability to blend individual sounds into a word (i.e. blend the three sounds, /c/ /a/ /t/ to say cat)
What is phoneme segmentation?
The ability to break a word into individual sounds (i.e. identify three sounds - /m/ /a/ /t/ in mat)
What is phoneme manipulation?
The ability to modify, change, or move the individual sounds in a word (i.e. moth becomes math when you switch the /o/ sound with /a/)
What is recognizing rhyme?
The ability to identify repetition of sounds in different words (i.e. the /at/ sound in mat is the same /at/ sound in cat, sat, splat)
What is blending onset-rime?
The ability to blend the onset, or first consonant sound/cluster in the word and the rime, or the rest of the vowel and consonants that follow (i.e. /tr/ is onset and /ain/ is rime in the word train)
What is DIBELS® (Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills) Assessment?
- A free assessment tool from the University of Oregon
- Short (one min.) procedures used to regularly detect risk and measure early literacy and early reading skills development. It identifies students who would benefit from additional support
- Available in Spanish (IDELS)
How should DIBELS® be administered?
Administer to all K-8 students three times a year (fall, winter, and spring)
What is PAST (Phonological Awareness Screening Test) Assessment?
A short, informal diagnostic tool that helps teachers evaluate 14 separate aspects of phonological awareness, including phoneme-level phonological awareness.
How should PAST be administered?
Administer to all K-2 students as a screening tool. It can be given to students in 3rd grade through adults to identify areas of intervention.
What is ERDA (Early Reading Diagnostic Assessment) Assessment?
Evaluates early reading skills to help teachers plan instruction targeted to the specific reading needs of a student.
How should ERDA be administered?
Administer to all K-3 students. Administered individually only.
What is phonics?
The process of using letter sound correspondences to recognize words.
What does it mean to understand phenome-grapheme correspondence?
The ability to understand a written symbol (letter) represents a sound (i.e. the letter m says /m/).
What does it mean to identify consonant and vowel sound relationships?
The ability to differentiate and blend consonant, short, and long vowel sounds and identify common phonics spelling patterns (i.e. when a vowel is immediately followed by the letter r, it is no longer pronounced as a short/long vowel like ir, or, er).
What does it mean to use phonics generalizations to decode?
The ability to apply rules to pronounce a word correctly (i.e. the letter c when followed by an a, u or o makes a /k/ sound).
What does it mean to use morphology (prefixes, suffixes, and roots) to decode?
The ability to recognize word parts and their meanings (i.e. unbelievable is made up of three morphemes – un (not), believe (trust), able (capable).
What does it mean to manipulate syllable patterns?
The ability to separate or blend words the way that they are pronounced (i.e. a syllable with a single vowel followed by a consonant and then the vowel e, the first vowel is long, and the e is silent, as in bike).
What does it mean to recognize non-decodable or irregularly spelled words?
The ability to memorize high frequency/sight words that are common but do not follow phonics rules.
What is the BPST III (The Basic Phonics Skills Test III) Assessment?
- A tool that assesses students’ recognition of letter sounds, specific phonics patterns, and the blending of single syllable and polysyllabic words out of context.
- A relatively quick way for teachers to isolate the phonics sounds students can identify and blend successfully.
- It is best used in conjunction with other types of assessments.
How should the BPST III be administered?
Administer to all K-2 students several times a year. It can be given to 3-6 students who are considered “below proficient” on graded word list scores.
What does it mean to read fluently?
The automatic ability to read words accurately in connected text.