RDG Semester Review

The ability to manipulate the sounds in words orally

• Shared Writing

• Pragmatics

• Phonemic Awareness

• Phonics

The teacher reads a book aloud, often a big book, as a group of children follow along in the text

• Shared Reading

• Shared Writing

• Interactive Read Aloud

• Round Robin Reading

The distance between a child's actual developmental level and his or her potential level that can be reached with teacher scaffolding

• Writing Process

• Zone of Proximal Development

• Morpheme

• Guided Reading

An approach to measuring children's learning that's process-oriented, ongoing, and positive; in contrast to evaluation, which is product-oriented and judgmental; goal is to document children's growth, provide feedback, modify instruction when needed, and plan for future instruction

• Comprehension

• Phoneme

• Assessment

• Review

Reading textbooks that are leveled according to grade

• Literature Focus Books

• Big Books

• Guided Reading

• Basal Readers

Children's awareness of their own thought and learning process

• Pragmatics

• Schema

• Metacognition

• Assimilation

A written representation of a sound using one or more letters

• Morphemes

• Phonemes

• Graphemes

• Phonics

The smallest meaningful part of a word; sometimes it's a word (e.g., cup, hope), and sometimes it's not a whole word (e.g., -ly, bi-)

• Morpheme

• Grapheme

• Bopheme

• Phoneme

A sound; it's represented in print with slashes (e.g., /s/ and /th/)

• Morpheme

• Grapheme

• Phoneme

• Bopheme

A cognitive structure or mental file

• Instruction

• Megacognition

• Schema

• Comprehension