Vocabulary Science of Teaching Reading

What is the Science of Reading?

• The study of how parents teach children to read

• The study of how teachers use phonics

• The study of how we become skilled readers

• The study of children's literature

What is missing in the equation below?

Word Recognition x _______ = Skilled Reading

• Vocabulary

• Sight Words

• Background Knowledge

• Language Comprehension

What is this?

• Ehri's Phases of Writing

• Scarborough's Reading Rope

• The beginning of a french braid

• Brain research

What are the 3 components of the Word Recognition strand of Scarborough's rope?

• vocabulary, background knowledge, and oral comprehension

• phonological awareness, phonics, and sight recognition

• accuracy and fluency

• Author's purpose, main idea, analyze narratives

What is the BEST reason automaticity is important in word recognition?

• Frees up mental space for other skills like comprehension and writing

• Makes us score higher on fluency

• Helps us set goals

• Helps us know what skills are already mastered

Reading is to decoding, as ___________ is to encoding

• spelling

• punctuation

• phonological awareness

• handwriting

Principal

Principle

• Homophone

• Homonym

• Homograph

• Digraph

You can read a book.

Discuss a book that you read yesterday.

• Homophone

• Homonym

• Homograph

• Diagraph