Literacy

Phonological Awareness is the knowledge of sounds within spoken language. It begins with the recognition of phrases within sentences and progresses to successively smaller units (e.g., words within phrases, syllables within words, onsets and rimes, individual phonemes). (Iowa Reading Research Center)

Phonemic Awareness is the ability to isolate and manipulate individual sounds within a spoken word. Phonemic awareness is one of the earliest skills in literacy development, but it is the most difficult skill within the construct of phonological awareness. (Iowa Reading Research Center)

Curriculum

• Iowa Core Foundational Skills

Instruction

• Florida Center for Reading Research
• Sharon Walpole Lessons and Modules from How to Plan Differentiated Reading Instruction
• Every Child Reads Materials

Diagnostic Assessment

• Pre-Decoding Skills Survey

Phonics is a teaching and learning process based on applying knowledge of letter-sound correspondences and spelling patterns to learn to read written text. (Iowa Reading Research Center)Advanced Phonics is a teaching and learning process that involves fast recognition and recall of complex spelling patterns and chunks of words that are larger than single phoneme-grapheme correspondences and includes word families, syllable types and morphology. (Moats & Hall, 2010)

Curriculum

• Iowa Core Foundational Skills, Reading Standards for Literature K-5 are found on pgs. 11-15, Reading Standards for Literature 6-12 are found on pgs. 46-53

Instruction

• ReadWorks
• Corrective Reading Comprehension
• Fusion Reading (MS/HS)
• Read to Achieve (MS/HS)
• Every Child Reads Materials

Reading text at an appropriate pace/rate and with accuracy and expression to build understanding. (Iowa Reading Research Center)
Fluency is reasonably accurate reading at an appropriate rate with suitable prosody (expression) that leads to accurate and deep comprehension and motivation to read. (Hasbrouck & Glaser, 2012)Curriculum & Instruction

• Iowa Core Foundational Skills
• Fluency - Six Minute Solutions
• Cold Read/Hot Read
• Every Child Reads Materials
• Fluency Flagging
• Read Naturally
• Florida Center for Reading Research
• Sharon Walpole Lessons and Modules from How to Plan Differentiated Reading Instruction
• Corrective Reading Decoding

Assessment

• Corrective Reading Decoding
• Fluency Rubric A Scale for Assessing Fluency

Vocabulary refers to the words we must know to communicate effectively. In general, vocabulary can be describes as oral vocabulary or reading vocabulary.

• Oral vocabulary refers to the words we use in speaking or recognize in listening.
• Reading vocabulary refers to words we recognize or use in print.

Curriculum

Iowa Core Foundational Skills - Standards for Language begin on pg. 33

Instruction

• Frayer Model
• Choosing Words to Teach (Beck, McKeown, Kucan)
• Explicit Instruction (Archer)
• Fusion Reading (MS & HS)
• Every Child Reads Materials
• Instructional Routine Florida Center for Reading Research

Making meaning from text by using prior knowledge, understanding vocabulary and concepts, making inferences, and forming connections between critical ideas. Some examples of comprehension strategies include predicting, summarizing, identifying main ideas and details, visualizing, and understanding an author’s purpose and perspective. (Iowa Reading Research Center)
Comprehension is the process of simultaneously extracting and constructing meaning through interaction and involvement with written language. (RAND Reading Report, 2002)Curriculum

• Iowa Core Foundational Skills

Instruction

• ReadWorks
• Corrective Reading Comprehension
• Fusion Reading (MS/HS)
• Read to Achieve (MS/HS)
• Every Child Reads Materials

Assessment

• TNL (Test of Narrative Language)