Theory Shmeory
The Urge to Emerge
Now Hear This!
Hooked on
Vodka & Tonics
Recognize and Realize
100
This theoretical paradigm considers learning to be the result of stimulus and response actions
What is Behaviorism?
100
This term refers to the knowledge or concepts (schema) emergent readers acquire about books, print, and words.
What are concepts of print?
100
This umbrella term refers to the ability to hear different units of sound in spoken language including rhyme, syllables, and individual phonemes.
What is phonological awareness?
100
In this approach to phonics instruction, words are decoded sound by sound.
What is synthetic approach?
100
These are the most common words that readers and writers use again and again?. They make up 65% or more of all written material. They are often not decodable and must be recognized automatically.
What are high frequency words?
200
This theory, which revolutionized how we think about reading comprehension, posits that all knowledge is organized into mental structures - kind of like file cabinets!
What is Schema Theory?
200
This particular concept of print refers to young learners knowledge of the speech to print one to one correspondence. It is demonstrated by their ability to track print.
What is concept of word?
200
This term refers to the ability to hear the smallest unit of sound in spoken language. You can demonstrate it in the dark!
What is phonemic awareness?
200
In this approach to phonics instruction, consonants are generally not isolated but are taught within the context of a whole word (like with word families).
What is analytic approach? (or decoding by analogy)
200
This umbrella term refers to the bank of words that readers are able to recognize instantaneously.
What are sight words?
300
Russian Psychologist, Lev Vygotsky, is credited with introducing this concept which describes what a learner can do without help and what he or she is able to do with help.
What is the Zone of Proximal Development?
300
This instructional technique utilizes big books and choral reading to facilitate development of young learners concepts of print, early phonics skills, and more.
What is Shared Reading?
300
This term refers to the consonant sound(s) that precedes the vowel in one-syllable words. E.g. The /fl/ in "flat"
What is onset?
300
This technique gets you a lot of instructional bang for your buck by providing kids lots of opportunities to segment, blend, and manipulate individual letter sounds. It's also hands on, which is fun!
What is word building or making words?
300

This Words Their Way assessment consists of a list of words specially chosen to represent a variety of features at increasing levels of difficulty. It gives us information about students' orthographic stage and developing phonic knowledge.

What is a spelling inventory?
400
This theory views students as active and engaged learners who construct their own knowledge primarily through interactions with peers
What is Social Constructivism?
400
This instructional technique in which students "share the pen," helps to facilitate development of young learners concepts of print, early phonics skills, and more.
What is interactive writing?
400
There are this many phonemes and this many syllables in the word: donate
What is 5 and 2
400
This technique gets you a lot of instructional bang for your buck by providing kids lots of opportunities to see and say patterns in words. It can be done in an "open" or "closed" fashion. It's also hands on, which is fun!
What are word sorts?
400
This term refers to the process of using hints or clues from the author to help define a difficult or unusual word.
What is contextual analysis? (or using context clues)
500
Literary theorist, Louise Rosenblatt, describes these two stances readers can take towards text as part of her Reader Response theory.
What are efferent stance and aesthetic stance?
500
This clinical psychologist and distinguished researcher from New Zealand coined the term "Emergent Literacy" and developed the Reading Recovery intervention program.
Who is Marie Clay?
500
Of the following 6 techniques, these 3 serve primarily to develop one's phonemic awareness. Making words, singing songs to teach rhyme, word sorts, picture sorts, sound manipulation via Elkonin boxes, word walls
What is: singing songs to teach rhyme, picture sorts, and Elkonin boxes
500
This term refers to two consonants that make one speech sound.
What is digraph? (NOT diAgraph)
500
Teaching these is often criticized because they often apply only about half the time. Nevertheless, they can sometimes be a helpful word solving strategy - as long as students understand there are often exceptions.
What are vowel generalizations or vowel rules?
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