A teaching approach that is academically focused, sequential, and structured.

• informal diagnosis

• direct instruction

• Informal Reading Inventory

• metacognition

The use of non-standardized techniques by the teacher in order to determine a student's strengths and weaknesses in reading

• informal diagnosis

• direct instruction

• Informal Reading Inventory

• metacognition

A compilation of graded reading selections with comprehension questions to accompany each selection

• informal diagnosis

• informal assessment

• Informal Reading Inventory

• Prior knowledge

Knowledge of one's own thought process while reading

• metacognition

• cognition

• prior knowledge

• critical reading

The smallest unit of sound in a language

• phoneme

• grapheme

• phonemic awareness

• phonics

Any responses during oral reading that deviate from the printed words

• critical reading

• miscues

• metacognition

• phoneme

The understanding of and the ability to manipulate the smallest units of sound that make-up spoken words

• phonemes

• grapheme

• word recognition

• phonemic awareness

Experiences and information that readers bring to the written text

• phonemic awareness

• metacognition

• prior knowledge

• word recognition

The ability of the reader to recognize words, usually refers only to recognition by sight or recognition without the aid of word analysis

• sight words

• metacognition

• critical reading

• word recognition

Evaluating on the basis of the reader's experience, the meaning and implication of what is read

• metacognition

• word recognition

• informal diagnosis

• critical reading