Simple View
Important Terms
ABC, Phonics & Phon Awareness
Fluency & Sight Words
Vocabulary Morphology & Comprehension
100

The math equation most often used to represent the simple view of reading framework.

Decoding X Listening Comprehension = Reading Comprehension

100

Mr. Smith is using a test for everyone in the class to see who may need extra help learning to read.  This type of assessment is applied like a net for everyone and is called....

What is a screening assessment or screening tool? 

100

Letter pairs such as Cc, Vv,  Mm,  Pp,  Kk, Jj that are visually similar pairs are EASIER  or HARDER for students to learn?  

What is EASIER to learn?  

Note: Visually similar upper and lower case pairs are easier to learn than visually distinct letter pairs:  Bb,  

100

Name the 3 components of fluency.

What is accuracy, automaticity, and prosody.

100

What is the term used for building a mental model in the process of reading comprehension?  

What is schema? 

200

Name 3 subskills that may affect word recognition.

What are phonological awareness, sight words, and  decoding (letter-sound correspondences,  alphabetic principle)?  

200

Mrs. Bailey's first graders are asked to reread their guided reading books 4-5 times before retiring them to the class library.  She wants to make sure they are reading the books accurately, smoothly and with some expression.  Mrs. Bailey uses rereading to focus on developing which aspect of reading?   phonics,  fluency,  phonological awareness, or vocabulary 

What is fluency? 

200

Mrs. Tulip asks her students to sort a group of pictures and magnetic letters by their initial sound.  Students are comparing Mm vs. Ff pictures/letters.   Afterwards they say the letter and its sound and write it in the air.  This lesson is an example of....    Choices:   phoneme manipulation,  phonics, or phonological awareness

What is phonics?   Note: This activity involves print and direct instruction with letter -sound correspondences.   Phonological awareness and phoneme awareness are spoken/ oral activities - no print involved! 

200
Mr. X wants to figure out why his students take so long to finish their assigned readings.  He decides to use what type of assessment to see if children are meeting grade level benchmarks?  

Choices:  

Oral reading fluency 

timed letter recognition

timed repeated reading


What is an oral reading fluency assessment?  

200

Mrs Wordy is teaching her 11th graders a unit on cell mitosis in Biology.  

Which of the following is NOT a best practice in teaching vocabulary in her classroom:

A.  Asking students to predict word meanings, followed by creating sentences using sentence stems after the lecture/reading.   

B.  Using concept sorts to categorize words by their meaning and relationships

C.  Pre-assessing student knowledge of words using a rating scale and selecting key Tier 2 and 3 words to provide kid-friendly definitions.   

D.  Assigning a list of 25 words and looking up their definitions in the chapter and glossary.   

What is D?  

Note:  Looking up words and writing definitions is  one of the least effective strategies for teaching vocabulary!  

300

Name 3 subskills that may impact listening comprehension.

What are vocabulary, background knowledge, language structures (e..g, syntax, semantics), verbal reasoning or literacy knowledge?  

300

The reading specialist has recommended that you use daily phonics instruction to foster an understanding that there are systematic and predictable relationships between written letters and spoken sounds. What is the term for this insight called? 

What is the alphabetic principle?

300

Count the phonemes in these words:

1. straw

2. clapped

3. shipshape

What is...

1. 4 (/s/ /t/ /r/ /aw/ = 4)

2.  5  (/c/ /l/ /a/ /p/ /t/ = 5)

3. 6 (/sh/ /i/ /p/ /sh/ /a/ /p/ = 6)

300

Linnea Ehri first coined this term for any word a student recognizes instantly and accurately upon seeing it.  

Choices:  high frequency word,  sight word,  decodable word,  none of the above. 

what is a sight word?

300

Look at each word and tell me the syllable type in the underlined syllable. 

1.   clover

2.   steaming

3.   consternation

4.   alpine

What is...

1.   What is Open syllable?   clover

2.   What is  Vowel Team syllable? steaming

3.   What is r-controlled vowel syllable?   consternation

4.   What is e-marker or silent e syllable?   alpine

400

Joshi and Aaron (2019) identified 2 additional factors outside of the SVR that may influence reading.  Give an example of a psychological factor that may influence a student's reading.  

What is motivation and engagement?  

400

Mrs. Davis' kindergarten class is learning how to identify and produce rhyming words.  By mid-year, they are learning how to clap syllables in spoken words.   By the end of the  year, they will push pennies for onsets, rimes, and individual sounds in words.   Mrs. Davis is teaching the students about what broad skill in reading?  

Choose from:  alphabet knowledge,  phonics,  phonological awareness, phonemic awareness

What is phonological awareness?   

Note:  She may be teaching these other aspects but the question describes phonological awareness continuum.  Phonemic awareness =awareness and ability to attend to  individual sounds in spoken words.

Phonics = direct teaching of letter sound relationships

400

pl is to blend as ch is to ______?

What is a digraph? 

400

Orthographic mapping requires which of the following:

a)  knowledge of high frequency words

b)   phonemic awareness skills

c) letter-sound knowledge

d) none of the above. 

What is B and C?

Orthographic mapping requires both knowledge of letter-sound relationships and the ability to attend to individual sounds in spoken words in order to map words for long term storage and retrieval. 

400

For each word,tell me the # of syllables and morphemes in

1. milkshakes

2.  teleporting

3.  disavowed


What is ...

1. 2 syllables and 3 morphemes (milk, shake, s (inflected ending)

2. 4 syllables and 3 morphemes  (tele, port, ing)

3.  3 syllables and 3 morphemes (dis,  avow,  ed)

500

SVR can be used to predict the cause of a reading problem.  Your student has reading comprehension problems.  Tests show that s/he has trouble reading  grade level materials accurately and smoothly but understands well if materials are read aloud to him/her.    Tell what part of the SVR framework may be causing this reading comprehension breakdown.        Hint:  RC = D X LC

What is a problem with decoding or word recognition? 

500

Name the term that describes the formation of letter-sound connections to bond the spellings, pronunciations, and meanings of specific words in memory. This term explains how children learn to read words by sight, to spell words from memory, and to acquire vocabulary words from print. 

What is orthographic mapping? 

500

Rank these terms in order from early to latest in terms of development: 

A)  a child can manipulate and delete individual sounds in spoken words, e.g.,  say stripe.   Say it again without the /p/ = "/stry/"   

B)   A child can push a penny for each word in a spoken sentence:  "The dog is in his yard."

C)  A child cannot tell you which word doesn't belong in a set that includes:  fog, cake,  dog.   

D)  A child can blend and segment words like this accurately and consistently:  mop = /m/- /op/;    chip = /ch/--/ip/;    stop /st/ --/op/.

What is C, B, D, A?  

Note:  Rhyming,  Words in spoken sentences,  Blend/segment onset-rime, and phoneme awareness

500

You have a student who reads accurately with automaticity in grade level texts. S/he rarely stops to decode individual words because they instantly recognize most  words.

Which stage/phase of Ehri's word development do they most likely fall into:

full alphabetic

pre-alphabetic

automatic (graphophonemic)

consolidated alphabetic 

What is the automatic (graphophonemic) stage of word development?  

500

Mrs. Buffle uses a daily read-aloud with her class to improve comprehension. She asks for advice to improve her read-alouds.   As her coach, which of the following would you recommend to her:

A.  Dialogic reading 

B.  Teacher think alouds

C.  Using a Before, During, and After reading framework

D. Introduce and model comprehension strategies with followup guided and independent practice

E.   ALL of the above. 

F. None of the above. 

What is E:  all of the above. 

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