Scarborough's Reading Rope and Reading Instruction Concepts

Vocabulary flashcards generated from the Midterm Study Guide covering Scarborough's Reading Rope, syllable types, linguistic components, and reading models.

Phoneme

Smallest unit of sound.

Phonological Awareness

Understanding the internal linguistic structure of words.

Sound Symbol Correspondences

Knowing the various sounds and their correspondence to the letters or combinations of letters that make those sounds.

Syllable

A unit of oral or written language with one vowel sound.

Closed Syllable

A type of syllable that ends in a consonant where the vowel is generally short.

Open Syllable

A type of syllable that ends in a vowel where the vowel is generally long.

Vowel + Consonant + e Syllable

A type of syllable that has a long vowel and ends with a silent e.

Vowel Team Syllable

A type of syllable spelled with two vowels next to each other.

R-controlled Syllable

A type of syllable that has a vowel followed by the letter r, where the letter r affects the vowel sound.

Consonant + le Syllable

A type of syllable that has a consonant followed by le at the end of the word, making the final syllable.

Morphology

How base words, roots, and affixes are connected to form words.

Syntax

Set of principles that dictate the sequence and function or words in a sentence in order to convey meaning.

Semantics

Aspect of language concerned with meaning.

RTI

Response to intervention.

Background Knowledge

An area of language comprehension in Scarborough's Reading Rope containing facts, concepts, etc.

Verbal Reasoning

An area of language comprehension in Scarborough's Reading Rope encompassing inference, metaphor, etc.

Literacy Knowledge

An area of language comprehension in Scarborough's Reading Rope encompassing print concepts, genres, etc.

Decoding

An area of word recognition in Scarborough's Reading Rope involving alphabetic principle and spelling-sound correspondence.

Sight Recognition

An area of word recognition in Scarborough's Reading Rope involving familiar words.

Simple View of Reading

Formula expressed as word identification (decoding) X language comprehension = reading comprehension.