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Trenita Holladay
Assessing and Teaching Reading: Chapter #7
| Question | Answer | Question | Answer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Phonological awareness | The specific ability to focus on and manipulate individual sounds (phonemes) in spoken words. | ||
| Reading Comprehension | Comprehension is the reason for reading. If readers can read the words but do not understand what they are reading, they are not really reading. | ||
| Vocabulary | The knowledge of words, their definitions, and context. | ||
| Fluency | The ability to read with accuracy, and with appropriate rate, expression, and phrasing. | ||
| Phonics | The relationship between written and spoken letters and sounds. | ||
| Word identification | The process of determining the pronunciation and some degree of meaning of an unknown word | ||
| Decoding | The ability to make sense of printed words. This involves recalling and recognizing the spoken word that is represented by the printed word. | ||
| Semantics | The study of how meaning in language is created by the use and interrelationships of words, phrases, and sentences | ||
| Metalinguistics | the branch of linguistics that deals with the relation between language and other aspects of culture | ||
| Syntax | The ordering of and relationship between the words and other structural elements in phrases and sentences. The syntax may be of a whole language, a single phrase or sentence, or of an individual speaker. | ||
| Pragmatics | The branch of linguistics that studies language use rather than language structure | ||
| Syllabication | To break a word down into syllables in speech or writing | ||
| Sight Words | A sight word is any word that is known by a reader automatically. |