• Reading Lingo
    A helpful guide to understanding key words associated with reading.
     
     
    Comprehension: Understanding what you read.  Students demonstrate their understanding by summarizing, predicting, making inferences, identifying cause and effect relationships,
     
    Decoding: Being able to read words.  Decoding is especially important when reading new or unfamiliar words. Student use their knowledge of phonics to help them "decode" the word.
     
    Fluency:  Reading is similar to the way you talk.  We want students to read aloud quickly, accurately, and with expression. 
     
    Phonemic Awareness: The ability to know that words are made up of specific sounds.
     
    Phonics: The relationship between sounds and their spellings.
     
    High Frequency Words: Words most commonly used in print.
     
    Sight Words: Words that do not follow spelling rules and syllable rules.  These are also known as "tricky words".
     
    Tracking: Difficulties in read print left to right.
     
    Word Attack: The strategies we use to read unfamiliar words.  For example, you may sound out the unfamiliar word, find a smaller word within the word, or use picture clues.
     
     
     
     
     
Last Modified on November 22, 2022