The+Big+Five-+ELA

Take a look at the Big Five Reading Components listed below. An important step in selecting an intervention is making sure teachers are familiar with the definitions of phonics, phonemic awareness, comprehension, fluency, and vocabulary.

= Building Basic Understandings: = • [|Click here] to help build some common understandings around the Ideas in Beginning Reading. • Below is an FAQ from the National Reading Panel on the five reading components.

= The Big Five- Interventions = ~ Phonics

~ Phonemic Awareness

~Comprehension

Text comprehension can be thought of as the interaction of reader and text. That is, readers must //construct// meaning by interpreting infomration presented in the reading though the lens of their own prior knowledge of the topic or events that make up the content of that passage (National Reading Panel, 2000).

The file below shows six different comprehension strategies that are researched based and are proven to build student's comprehension skills.

~Fluency

~Vocabulary-

The National Reading Panel (2000) noted the interaction between a reader’s ability to recognize the meanings of // individual words // in printed text (vocabulary comprehension) and that reader’s skill at comprehending // the larger meaning // of a passage (text  comprehension). According to the Panel, vocabulary instruction should be taught to students both directly and indirectly. Children learn vocabulary items better if given repeated exposure to those items (e.g., in regular vocabulary review sessions). Students who are just learning to read or have delayed reading skills often benefit from having a more accomplished reader listen to their reading and correct any reading mistakes immediately.