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Reading LingoA 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