Reading First New Jersey - Professional Development
Video-based Reading Strategies and Techniques: Comprehension
Glossary
- Five Essential Components of Reading:
- Phonemic awareness - The ability to hear, identify and manipulate the individual sounds, or phonemes, in spoken words.
- Phonics - The understanding that there is a predictable relationship between phonemes, the sounds of spoken language, and graphemes, the letters and spellings that represent those sounds in written language.
- Vocabulary development - Development of stored information about the meanings and pronunciation of words necessary for communication. There are four types of vocabulary:
- listening vocabulary - the words needed to understand what is heard
- speaking vocabulary - the words used when speaking
- reading vocabulary - the words needed to understand what is read
- writing vocabulary - the words used in writing
- Reading fluency, including oral reading skills - The ability to read text accurately and quickly.
- Reading comprehension strategies - Strategies for understanding, remembering and communicating with others about what has been read.
(* Source - Guidance for the Reading First Program, US Education Department, OESE, April, 2002. pp. 41-43, 46)
- Previewing - Previewing is a comprehension strategy that involves activating prior knowledge, predicting, and setting a purpose for reading.
(* Source - the Read*Write*Think Web site, collaborative effort between the International Reading Association, NCTE, and Marco Polo)
- Summarizing - Summarizing is defined as synthesizing important ideas.
(* Source - the Read*Write*Think Web site, collaborative effort between the International Reading Association, NCTE, and Marco Polo)
- Visualizing - Visualizing involves picturing in your mind what is happening in the text.
(* Source - the Read*Write*Think Web site, collaborative effort between the International Reading Association, NCTE, and Marco Polo)
