Miscellaneous
Two letters that come together to make one sound.
What is a digraph?
The number of syllables in the word "oversimplify"
What is 5?
The number of phonemes in the word "zone".
What is 3?
A word or part of a word with one vowel sound.
What is a syllable?
Essential for reading comprehension, this is the knowledge of a topic before reading.
What is Background Knowledge?
The hemisphere of the brain that is more involved in language and ultimately reading.
What is the left hemisphere?
The ability to identify and manipulate individual sounds in spoken words.
What is Phonemic Awareness?
What is 2?
In this syllable division pattern, you divide between two vowels.
What is Lion?
Automaticity, speed, and prosody are all key components in this skill.
What is fluency?
A vowel sound in an unstressed syllable, where the vowel does not make its long or short vowel sound.
What is schwa?
The onset in the word "shore".
What is /sh/?
The number of phonemes in "league".
What is 3?
The only syllable type that is also a syllable division pattern.
What is -cle?
A formula that is based on the widely accepted view that reading includes two basic components: decoding and language comprehension.
What is the Simple View of Reading?
A letter or group of letters that represents a single phoneme.
What is a grapheme?
The smallest unit of sound in a word.
What is phoneme?
The number of phonemes in the word "hoax".
What is 4?
These are the 6 syllable types.
What are closed, silent e, open, vowel team, vowel r, and -cle?
The National Reading Panel (2000) found that to become good readers, children must develop these 5 skills
What are Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Vocabulary, Fluency, and Comprehension?
A visual model that illustrates how skilled reading relies on the intertwining of language comprehension and word recognition.
What is Scarborough's Reading Rope
The number of phonemes in English.
What is 44?
The number of phonemes in the word "quenched".
What is 6?
These are the 6 syllable division patterns.
What are wombat vc/cv, lobster vc/ccv, tiger v/cv, camel vc/v, lion v/v, and turtle -cle?
Refers to the notion that good readers read more and get a richer vocabulary, and poor readers read less and fall further behind.
What is the Matthew Effect?