Oral Language Systems
Oral Language Part Two
The Reading Brain
Phonology
Orthographic Processing
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This oral language system refers to the study of the speech sound system of a language.

What is PHONOLOGY?

100

The difference between receptive and expressive language may also be thought of as the difference between understanding and this.

What is communicating?

100

This area of the brain is responsible for letter knowledge and symbols processing.

What is the occipito-temporal region (the back left hemisphere)?

100

This is the smallest unit of speech that distinguishes one word from another.

What is a phoneme?

100

This-In a one-syllable word ending with one short vowel followed by one consonant, double the final consonant, then add the vowel suffix- is known as what rule?

What is the Doubling 1-1-1 Rule?

200

This refers to the neural mechanisms that allow us to use speech sounds to process oral and written language.

What is PHONOLOGICAL PROCESSORS?

200

This is an example of what Oral Language System: Students take turns constructing sentences by picking an attribute and using the  suffix to compare two items based on that attribute.

What is MORPHOLOGY?

200

This is a specific learning disability that is neurobiological in origin and is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities.

What is DYSLEXIA?

200

There are this many phonemes in the English Language.

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200

This instruction supports the connectivity between the brain’s phonological and orthographic processors.

What is Phonics Instruction?

300

What region of the brain is mostly responsible for processessing speech sounds?

What is Broca's Area?

300

Antonyms, synonyms, and definitions for words all fall under this system of oral language.

What is Semantics?

300

This has the ability to rewire and change the structure of the reading brain.

What is effective reading instruction?

300

Phoneme manipulation includes one of these four sound activities.

Reversal, substitution, addition, deletion
300

In the word popcorn, pop is this syllable type.

What is closed?

400

In Oral Language Systems, Semantics refers to this.

What is the meaning of words, phrases, and sentences, and their relationship in a language?

400

Difficulty comprehending THIS has been cited as one of the key components of reading comprehension deficits.

What is complex syntax?

400

For students learning to read, effective instruction must be one of these four adjectives.

What is explicit, systematic, cumulative, and multi-sensory?
400

Phonemic Awareness Skills progress in this order.

What is isolate, identify, categorize, blend, segment, and manipulate?

400
This is the first step in decoding unfamiliar multi-syllabic words.

What is find and underline the vowels?

500

Pragmatics refers to the rules for this for social purposes and effective communication.

What is language?

500

The relationship between oral and written language can be described using this adjective.

What is RECIPROCAL? 

500

The following are characterisitics this type of effective instruction: data-driven, corrective feedback, scaffolded.

What is Mastery Oriented?

500

This is how you can tell if a consonant phoneme is voiced or unvoiced.

What is put your hand on your throat?
500

Encoding is a another way to think about this age-old student activity.

What is spelling.

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