Vocabulary #3

Fluency

• The ability to read text accurately, quickly, and with expression.

• A graph line drawn from a students current level of performance to a fixed bench mark score. The slope of the line depicts ongoing progress scores needed to meet the final benchmark score.

• The ability to read text orally using appropriate phrasing, intonation, and attention to punctuation.

Reading Fluency

• A form of reading practice in which students read narrative and expository passages on a variety of subjects.

• A teaching approach designed to help learners build an effective system for reading a variety of increasingly challenging text over time.

• The ability to read text accurately, quickly, and with expression.

Median Score

• Scores that allow teachers to compare a student's rate of improvement with other students in the same grade and at the same level, thus providing another indicator of how effective instruction is for a student.

• The middle score. If a student reads three grade-level passages at 40 words per minute, 76 words per minute, and 50 words per minute, the middle score would be 50 words per minute.

• A graph line drawn from a student's current level of performance to a fixed benchmark score. The slope of the line depicts ongoing progress scores needed to meet the final benchmark score.

Aimline

• Scores that allow teachers to compare a student's rate of improvement with other students in the same grade and at the same level, thus providing another indicator of how effective instruction is for a student.

• The rise and fall of the voice pitch on a scale extending from high to low. The pitch of the voice rises, falls, or remains relatively level during the pronunciation of words and sentences. Different patterns of pitch changes convey a range of meanings from the speaker's emotional state to the difference between statements, questions, and exclamations.

• A graph line drawn from a student's current level of performance to a fixed benchmark score. The slope of the line depicts ongoing progress scores needed to meet the final benchmark score.

Rate of Improvement Scores

• Scores that allow teachers to compare a student's rate of improvement with other students in the same grade and at the same level, thus providing another indicator of how effective instruction is for a student.

• The middle score. If a student reads three grade-level passages at 40 words per minute, 76 words per minute, and 50 words per minute, the middle score would be 50 words per minute.

• A graph line drawn from a student's current level of performance to a fixed benchmark score. The slope of the line depicts ongoing progress scores needed to meet the final benchmark score.

Prosody

• The ability to read text accurately, quickly, and with expression.

• A graph line drawn from a students current level of performance to a fixed bench mark score. The slope of the line depicts ongoing progress scores needed to meet the final benchmark score.

• The ability to read text orally using appropriate phrasing, intonation, and attention to punctuation.

Intonation

• Scores that allow teachers to compare a student's rate of improvement with other students in the same grade and at the same level, thus providing another indicator of how effective instruction is for a student.

• The rise and fall of the voice pitch on a scale extending from high to low. The pitch of the voice rises, falls, or remains relatively level during the pronunciation of words and sentences. Different patterns of pitch changes convey a range of meanings from the speaker's emotional state to the difference between statements, questions, and exclamations.

• A graph line drawn from a student's current level of performance to a fixed benchmark score. The slope of the line depicts ongoing progress scores needed to meet the final benchmark score.

Round Robin

• The ability to read text accurately, quickly, and with expression.

• A method of reading in which all students in the class read aloud from the same book, regardless of their reading levels. The teacher calls on individuals to read, usually following a predetermined order.

• The ability to read text orally using appropriate phrasing, intonation, and attention to punctuation.

Graphophonemic Strategies

• Strategies for identifying words that involve looking at the letters, breaking the words into parts, and/or matching letters and letter combinations with the sounds they make; phonics strategies.

• Strategies for identifying words that focus on meaning.

• Strategies for identifying words that focus on the conventions and rules related to sentence structure; grammatical strategies.

Syntactic Strategies

• Strategies for identifying words that involve looking at the letters, breaking the words into parts, and/or matching letters and letter combinations with the sounds they make; phonics strategies.

• Strategies for identifying words that focus on meaning.

• Strategies for identifying words that focus on the conventions and rules related to sentence structure; grammatical strategies.

Answer explanation

Syntactic Strategies involve figuring out whether a word sounds right in a sentence as if someone were talking.