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All About Teaching Reading & Writing
Taxonomy
The Simple View of Reading

Word Recognition x Language Comprehension = Reading Comprehension

Assessment

The process of measuring students' progress and providing information to help guide instruction

Word Recognition

The ability to see a word and know how to pronounce it without consciously thinking about it

Phonological Awareness

A group of skills that enable you to recognize and manipulate parts of spoken words

Articulation

Syllables

Onset-Rime

Phonemic Awareness

Phonics

A method for teaching children the relationship between spoken sounds and written letters so they can learn to decode and encode

Sound-Letter Correspondence

Phonics Patterns

Common letter combinations found in words.

Short Vowels Skill Explainer
Closed Syllables Skill Explainer
Glued Sounds Skill Explainer
Open Syllables Skill Explainer
Spelling with 'c' vs. 'k' Skill Explainer
Consonant Digraphs Skill Explainer
Blends Skill Explainer
‘-ck’ Spelling Rule Skill Explainer
FLoSS(Z) Spelling Rule Skill Explainer
‘y’ as a Vowel Skill Explainer

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    Magic 'e' Skill Explainer
    Soft 'c' and Soft 'g' Skill Explainer

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      R-Controlled Vowels Skill Explainer

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        Vowel Teams and Dipthongs Skill Explainer

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          '-tch' Spelling Rule Skill Explainer
          '-dge' Spelling Rule Skill Explainer

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            Consonant '-le' Skill Explainer

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              Schwa Skill Explainer

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                Irregularly Spelled High-Frequency Words

                High-frequency words that have a part of their spelling that has to be memorized

                Irregularly Spelled High-Frequency Words

                Multisyllable Words

                Words that have more than one word part

                Prefixes

                How to add meaningful beginnings to words

                Suffixes

                How to add meaningful endings to words

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                Language Comprehension

                The ability to understand the meaning of spoken words

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                Knowledge

                All the information one acquires over time to understand language and comprehend text

                (active)Building Student Knowledge

                Knowledge Skill Explainer

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                  Reading Comprehension

                  The ability to understand the meaning of printed text

                  Text Considerations

                  Characteristics of a text that impact the ease or difficulty of comprehension.

                  Strategies and Activities

                  How a reader approaches a specific text, depending on their purpose for reading

                  Reader’s Skill and Knowledge

                  The skills and knowledge a reader brings to the reading task that are necessary for comprehension

                  Sociocultural Context

                  Elements in a classroom that affect how well a child learns to read

                  Fluency

                  The ability to read accurately with automaticity and expression

                  Fluency: Accuracy, then Automaticity

                  Reading or decoding words correctly (accuracy) and reading at an appropriate rate (automaticity)

                  Accuracy, then Automaticity Skill Explainer

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                    Fluency: Expressive Text Reading

                    Reading characterized by accuracy with automaticity and expression

                    Expressive Text Reading Skill Explainer

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                      Writing

                      The act of putting thoughts into print using transcription and composition skills

                      Features of Structured Literacy

                      A systematic and explicit approach to teaching reading based on research

                      • Building Student Knowledge

                      12 Ways to Activate Background Knowledge

                      The twelve pre-reading strategies in this printable offer engaging ways to tap students' prior knowledge and spark curiosity about stories and text you will introduce in your reading block.

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