Simple View
RTI / Dyslexia
Emergent Literacy
Important Terms
Special Populations
100

RC = D X LC  is a mathematical description of the _____.

What is the simple view of reading framework?

100

The primary deficit for most students with dyslexia is...

What is phonological awareness or phonemic awareness?  

100

Young children must learn to identify the front cover of a book, the back of a book, a picture v. a word, etc. These are all examples of ________.

What is concepts of print?

100

Mrs. ABC is showing her students a series of cards with printed lower case letters and asking them to say the letter names and corresponding sounds.  Later they write letters as she says various letter sounds in a sand tray.  These are examples of _______ instruction.

What is phonics instruction?

100

ELL, ESL and ASD refer to...

What is English Language Learner, English as a Second Language, and Autism Spectrum Disorders?

200

The key insight needed by students that says letters represent sounds in alphabetic writing systems.

What is the alphabetic principle?

200

Most students with dyslexia have issues with  _____ and _______.

What is word recognition and spelling?

200

The ability to name letters, identify the sounds they make, and their printed shape.  For most children, this skill begins to develop before school entry.

What is alphabet knowledge?

200

The process of reading words is _____ and the process of writing words is ______.

What is decoding and encoding?

200

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

Choices:  

A. Oral reading fluency 

B. timed letter recognition

C.  timed repeated reading

What is an oral reading fluency measure? 


Note:  1 minute timed readings of passages to assess accuracy and reading rate (WCPM = words read correctly per minute) can provide a snapshot of how fluently a student reads.  

Timed letter reading and timed repeated readings are common fluency activities designed to promote accurate, smooth reading, i.e., fluency tasks. 

300

Name 2 subskills that fall under the decoding side of the SVR framework.

What is letter knowledge and phoneme awareness?

Correct answer may also include:  lexical and cipher knowledge, alphabetic principles, concepts of print.

300

Although originally intended to placate both sides in the reading wars, this term has become synonymous with whole language instruction and practices over the years.

What is balanced literacy?

300

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.   

What is C, B, D, A?  

Note:  Phonological awareness skills tend to develop in a continuum from global to smallest language units:  Listening & Rhyming,  Words in spoken sentences,  Syllable awareness,  Initial sounds, onset-rime, and phoneme awareness (individual sounds).

300

Mr. Davis is choosing words from his class read-aloud to bring to his student's attention.  He selects the following words:   capricious,   flagrant, and fortunate.  These would be examples of....  

A. Tier 3 words

B. Tier 2 words

C.  Tier 1 words 

D.  None of the above. 

Name 1 example of a vocabulary strategy you might use as a follow-up with these words.

What is B.  Tier 2 words?

Answers may vary for follow-up but might include:  concept sorts,  sentence stems for writing/speaking,   list=group-label,  semantic feature analysis,  word maps/concept maps,  morphemic analysis, etc.

300

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

Which of the following would be best practice/s for helping her ELL's and students with reading difficulties to learn vocabulary?

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.  

E.  All of the above.

What are responses A, B and C?  


Note:  D - assigning and memorizing lists of words has repeatedly been shown to be an ineffective strategy for long-term vocabulary development. 

  


400

A student who can decode accurately and fluently but lacks reading comprehension is called a ____.

What is a hyperlexic?

400

This model is what some schools use to determine if kids are eligible for special education services. At its heart, this model relies on a mismatch between a child's intellectual ability and his/her progress in school.

What is a discrepancy formula?

400

Graphemes are to letters what phonemes are to _____.

What is individual sounds?

400

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?

400

Although  not always true, converging evidence suggests that students with ASD will have stronger ____ skills and weaker ____ skills.  

What is stronger decoding skills and weaker reading comprehension skills?

500

Over the past 50 years the robust debate on learning to read is referred to as_______.

What is the Reading Wars?
500

Mrs. ABC is showing her students a series of cards with printed lower case letters and asking them to say the letter names and corresponding sounds.  Later they write letters as she says various letter sounds in a sand tray.  These are examples of _______ instruction. 

What is phonics instruction?

500

Analyze and identify the common errors in these spellings:

Choose from these terms: 

a. confuses medial short vowel   b. absent digraph  c.confuses digraphs   d.  absent final consonants   

e.  confuses silent e marker   f. absent  silent e-marker  g.confuses blends


EXAMPLES: 

1. S  (sat)

2.  PEN (pin)

3. HOP (chop)

4.  BLAED (blade)

5. JIP (drip)

What is...?

1. S  (sat)  - d.  absent final consonants  

2.  PEN (pin) - a. confuses medial short vowel

3. HP (chop) -   b. absent digraph

4.  BLAED (blade) - e.  confuses silent e marker

5. JIP (drip) - g.confuses blends

500

A teacher is reading Eric Carle's " The Very Hungry Caterpillar" to her kindergarten class.  She stops occasionally to comment on words and discuss what's happening with the students.  This process is called ______.

What is dialogic reading?

500

The SIOP model is a research-based and validated instructional model that has proven effective in addressing the academic needs of English learners throughout the United States.  SIOP stands for....

What is Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol?

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