7 Mighty Moves for Reading Success

Which of the following statements are true?

• Orthographic mapping matches the sounds students hear to the letters they see, with the word's meaning.

• Sight and high-frequency words are the same, except that teachers call them sight words and researchers call them high-frequency.

• All sight words are high-frequency words, but not all high-frequency words are sight words.

• High-frequency words must be memorized by heart to make them "heart words".

Which of these learning progressions is correct?

• letter pattern level

  phrase level

  semantic level

• semantic level

  syntactic level

  accuracy level

• letter pattern level

  letter level

  word level

• letter level

  letter pattern level

  word level

Choose the best practice to follow when implementing partner reading.

• Be intentional about partnering the students.

• Let students pick their partners to ensure they feel comfortable reading in front of their peers.

• Use popsicle sticks to choose partners.

• Arrange the partners so that the most fluent reader works with the weakest reader.