Reading Terms
Phonological Awareness – This term refers to listening and understanding that sounds make up language and being able to hear and produce sounds. This is a pre-reading skill and involves recognizing rhyming words, producing rhyming words, solating the beginning, ending and medial sounds in a given word, clapping syllables in words, blending given sounds into a word and segmenting a word into it’s individual sounds.
Phonics – is associating the sounds with a particular letter and being able to learn the rules that allow us to read and spell. Students must know all the sounds and letters before they can progress to reading.
Decoding – is being able to figure out a written word.
Encoding – is being able to spell a word correctly.
Fluency – is the smooth reading of text.
Accuracy – is the percentage of words read correctly.
Rate – is how fast the student reads.
Prosody/Expression – refers to the tone, phrasing and expression of reading and the following of punctuation.
Comprehension – Comprehension is the goal of reading. Students must understand the words they read and not just “say” the words correctly.
Comprehension strategies include: sequence, main idea and supporting details, compare and contrast, inference, prediction and
using context clues to figure out new vocabulary words.
Phonics – is associating the sounds with a particular letter and being able to learn the rules that allow us to read and spell. Students must know all the sounds and letters before they can progress to reading.
Decoding – is being able to figure out a written word.
Encoding – is being able to spell a word correctly.
Fluency – is the smooth reading of text.
Accuracy – is the percentage of words read correctly.
Rate – is how fast the student reads.
Prosody/Expression – refers to the tone, phrasing and expression of reading and the following of punctuation.
Comprehension – Comprehension is the goal of reading. Students must understand the words they read and not just “say” the words correctly.
Comprehension strategies include: sequence, main idea and supporting details, compare and contrast, inference, prediction and
using context clues to figure out new vocabulary words.