EDCI $$424$$ Multisensory Book Knowledge and Skills Assessment Study Guide

This set of vocabulary flashcards covers key concepts from the EDCI $$424$$ study guide, including dyslexia characteristics, executive function, assessment types, and literacy instruction strategies.

Dyslexia

A condition where the defining characteristic is that a student has difficulties with the phonology of language.

Systematic phonics instruction

The type of instruction research suggests is effective for teaching phonics.

Academic language

A term described as classroom language.

Close reading

A practice meant to reduce college students’ challenges related to reading because of the demands of complex text.

Executive function

A cognitive process defined by cognitive flexibility, inhibitory control, and working memory.

Language pragmatics

A focus on the purposes and intentions with which we use and understand language orally and in print.

Suprasegmental features

Features that accompany speaking and influence comprehension, distinguishing speaking from decoding.

Early literacy skills

The components consisting of phonological awareness, storytelling, and writing development.

Learning centers

Areas in the early childhood classroom that provide opportunities for exploration, promote small-group interaction, and lead to complex play and work.

Print awareness

A skill that helps children distinguish oral and printed messages.

Reliability

The consistency of test results across evaluators, between various forms of the test, among test items, and upon retesting.

Face validity

A sometimes misleading measure that refers simply to whether a test appears to measure something.

Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEA) of $2004$

A law that neither requires nor prohibits the use of discrepancy between IQ score and achievement to determine SLD.

Formative assessments

Assessments provided often to guide daily or weekly instruction.

Grade-equivalent scores

Scores that have unequal spaces between them, correspond unevenly to norm-referenced scores, and can change significantly due to small movements in raw data.

Working memory

The ability to hold information in mind while thinking about it, often called the "mental sketchpad" or "on-screen memory."

Instructional intensity

Repeated, consistent, and intensive practice that allows learners with executive function difficulties to learn strategies to retain information and inhibit forgetting.

Reading fluency

A skill involving accuracy and rate that starts early, develops over many years, and supports improved reading comprehension.

The Fluency Development Lesson (FDL)

A plan highlighted by Rasinski and Nageldinger that focuses on performance-oriented re-reading.

Breadth of vocabulary

The number of word meanings a student recognizes.

Word consciousness

A component of a comprehensive approach to vocabulary instruction for the school-age child.

Independent word learning strategy

A strategy such as teaching students to use context to determine word meaning.

Expository texts

Texts that have seen an increased focus in all grades for reading comprehension instruction because of the CCSS for English Language Arts.