Science of Reading #1
TRUE OR FALSE
Our brains are hard-wired to learn to read, as they are to speak.
FALSE
“Recent brain research allows us to link our understanding of the sequence of steps a child goes through in learning to read to the work that must go on within the brain to solve the reading code as well as to the teaching of reading. Within his brain, the child is literally building the neural circuitry that links the sounds of spoken words, the phonemes, to the print code, the letters that represent these sounds.”
The understanding that words are made up of individual sounds is _____________.
Phonemic Awareness
What is the PBIS acronym used at CDV?
R.O.A.R - (R- Be Respectful, O- On Task, A- All Heart, R- Be Responsible.)
I Will Always Love You was an early 90s hit for which superstar?
Whitney Houston
_______% of phonics instruction should be spent on application (reading and writing).
50%
TRUE OR FALSE
A research-based curriculum alone can turn schools around.
FALSE
CDV has _______, 4 Star National Blue Ribbon titles.
Two - 2014 & 2020
This person has won the most medals in a single Olympics.
Michael Phelps
The process readers use to store written words for immediate, effortless retrieval....
Orthographic Mapping
_________ refers to the knowledge of letter sounds and the ability to apply that knowledge in decoding unfamiliar printed words.
Phonics
When did CDV open?
1998
Who was the first cartoon character to get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame?
Mickey Mouse
Reading is to decoding, as ___________ is to encoding.
Spelling
When two or more consonant sounds appear together and each individual sound can still be heard, such as st or fr, that is called a ____________.
Blend
How many principals have been at CDV since opening?
4
Emrick
Bakle
Ann - Interim
Peters
How many flavors are in a box of Froot Loops?
One. All the colors taste the same!
In the Simple View of Reading (otherwise known as SVR), it states that....
Language Comprehension x ________ = Reading Comprehension.
What is the ________?
Word Recognition
There are twenty-six letters in the alphabet, but how many individual sounds, or phonemes, does the English language have?
and how many spellings?
44 phonemes
250 spellings
How many staff members does CDV have? ALL STAFF - kitchen, custodial, etc.
75
On average, what is the thing that Americans do 22 times a day?
Open the fridge