Vocabulary Project #3

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Across
  1. 2. Planned reading of text to children for a specific purpose. These oral reading sessions have the potential to develop comprehension skills, oral language, vocabulary, core knowledge, ability to visualize, motivations for the subject or reading in general, and ultimately reading comprehension, but only if they are conducted in an interactional style.
  2. 5. A form of reading practice in which students read narrative and expository passages on a variety of subjects.
  3. 8. Instruction (FORI): A five day multidimensional fluency-building activity that involves prereading vocabulary and background knowledge activities, echo reading, choral reading, partner reading, and post reading summarization activities.
  4. 9. The ability to read text orally using appropriate phrasing, intonation, and attention to punctuation.
  5. 11. The middle score.
  6. 12. The ability to read text accurately, quickly, and with expression.
  7. 14. Strategies for identifying words that focus on the conventions and rules related to sentence structure; grammatical strategies. Syntactic strategies involve figuring out whether a word sounds right in a sentence as if someone were talking.
Down
  1. 1. 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.
  2. 3. A fluency-based passage reading teaching strategy that involves teacher modeling, discussion of passage meaning, choral reading, performances for peers, and home practice.
  3. 4. 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.
  4. 6. Strategies for identifying words that involve looking at the letters, breaking the word into parts, and/or matching letters and letter combinations with the sounds they make; phonics strategies.
  5. 7. Strategies for identifying words that focus on meaning. Semantic strategies focus on whether or not a word makes sense in a sentence.
  6. 10. A teaching approach designed to help learners build an effective system for reading a variety of increasingly challenging texts over time.
  7. 13. 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.