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Cloze testComprehensionDiagnosticassessmentsFluencyFrustrationreading levelIndependentreading levelInformal ReadingInventoryInstructionalreading levelInterventionLetter-soundcorrespondenceMaze testPhonemePhonemicawarenessAn assessment of reading comprehension in which students read a passage withwords systematically deleted. Students must supply the deleted words.The ability to understand what is read—the ultimate goal of readingAssessments designed to refine a teacher’s understanding of student strengthsand weaknesses to inform instructional decisionsThe ability to read with speed, accuracy, appropriate phrasing, and expressionText that is too difficult for students; when students repeatedly read text at thislevel, they may develop counterproductive habitsText that the student can read on his or her own, without support (also calledthe “homework level”)An assessment consisting of text passages at increasing levels of difficulty, usedto determine students’ independent, instructional, and frustration reading levelsand to measure comprehension (and sometimes fluency) in increasingly difficulttext. Students read passages at different reading levels and answer questionswhile teachers take notes regarding the students’ reading behaviors.Text that students can read with assistance, or instruction; this level is best forteaching students how to become better readersIntensive instruction designed to help remediate a student’s difficulties; usuallyprovided in addition to the student’s regular instructionThe relationship between letters or letter combinations and the sounds theyrepresentAn assessment of reading comprehension in which students read a passagewith words systematically deleted. For each deleted word, students select theappropriate word from three possible words so that the passage makes sense; amultiple-choice cloze test.The smallest unit of sound in a language. English has about 40 phonemes,which are represented by about 250 letters or letter combinations. For example,the long a sound (a phoneme) can be represented by the letter a with a silent e(lake), ai (rain), ay (day), a (paper), eigh (eight), ey (they), ea (steak), ei (vein),and aigh (straight).One kind of phonological awareness; the ability to hear and manipulate soundswithin words, usually demonstrated by segmenting words into their individualsounds and blending sounds to form words; an auditory skill, but should belinked with instruction in letters or letter sounds (phonics)14The Reading Teacher’s Sourcebook