LETRS
The two major components of Scarborough's Reading Rope.
What are language comprehension and word recognition?
What is an adjective?
This means life.
What is bio?
Objects and material from everyday life used as teaching aids.
What is realia?
This is the answer to a division problem.
What is the quotient?
The study of the relationships between letters and the sounds they represent.
What is phonics?
A word or group of words that can be used in place of a noun or noun phrase in a sentence.
What is a pronoun?
Term for viewing instrument.
What is a scope?
The most basic words including sight words, nouns, verbs and adjectives.
What are tier 1 vocabulary words?
The order order of operations.
What is PEMDAS?
A writing system for representing language.
What is orthography?
A word or expression that modifies a verb, adjective, usually ending in -ly.
What is an adverb?
The fear of something.
What is a phobia?
Pictures, charts, and diagrams that help students understand and remember information.
What are visuals?
A parallelogram with opposite parallel sides, the opposite angles are equal, all the sides are equal in length, and the diagonals bisect each other at right angles.
What is a rhombus (or diamond)?
The ability to read quickly and accurately without conscious effort.
What is automaticity?
A word used to connect clauses or sentences or to coordinate words in the same clause (e.g. and, but, if ).
What is a conjunction?
This means water.
What is aqua?
The language a person has been exposed to from birth or within the critical period.
What is home language (or first language)?
The space inside a shape.
What is the area?
The smallest meaningful unit of language. It may be a word or a part of a word. It may be a single sound, one syllable, or multiple syllables.
What is a morpheme?
A group of words that begins with a preposition and ends with a noun, pronoun, or noun phrase.
What is a prepositional phrase?
This means false. Think false name.
What is pseudo?
Words in two or more languages that are similar or alike.
What are cognates?
Divides a figure into two congruent halves that reflect each other.
What is a line of symmetry?