Definitions
Strategies
Assessment
All Learners
How It Helps Students
100
What knowledge does a person need to have in order to spell words?
Orthographic Knowledge
100
What is one strategy for teaching syllables?
Six Syllables Types or Syllable Division Principle
100
What are two ways we can assess Syllabic Analysis, Structural Analysis, and Orthographic Knowledge?
In Isolation and In Context
100
What are the four categories that make up All Learners?
Struggling Learners; Students with Learning Disabilities; English Learners; Advanced Learners
100
What is the importance of teaching students academic language?
Academic Language is important for understanding the words, phrases, and sentence structures used in schools, especially in textbooks and tests
200
What is the foundation for understanding the sound-symbol relationships (phonics)?
Phonemic Awareness
200
What is one strategy for teaching Concepts of Print?
Big Book; Shared Experience; or Language Experience Approach
200
What is one assessment for phonics and sight words?
CORE Phonics Survey; DIBELS Next; Irregular Word Test (IWT); CORE Graded High-Frequency Word Survey
200
What is one thing you do for Advanced Learners?
Increase the pace and complexity of instruction Extend the depth and breadth of instruction Build on and extend current skills
200
How does phonics help a student become a better reader?
Phonics is a skill that gives students’ the ability to read words accurately, and with automatically, enables them to focus on text comprehension because less mental energy is required to decode words?
300
What is the term for the knowledge that oral English is composed of smaller units?
Phonological Awareness
300
What parts of word analysis can you teach using a lesson with a Whole-to-Part Approach? (Phonemic Awareness, Concepts About Print, Letter Recognition, Phonics, Sight Words, Structural Analysis, Syllabic Analysis)
Sight Words, Structural Analysis, or Phonics
300
What is one assessment for Phonological Awareness/ Phonemic Awareness
Yopp-Singer Test of Phoneme Segmentation DIBELS Next First Sound Fluency (FSF) Phoneme Segmentation Fluency (PSF)
300
Which group of learners do we transfer the skills from their first language whenever possible?
English Learners
300
How does fluency help a student become a better reader?
Fluent readers swiftly and accurately identify words, which frees their minds to deal with the meaning of a text.
400
What is the smallest unit of meaning?
Morpheme
400
What is an explicit, direct strategy for teaching phonics?
Analytic Phonics or Synthetic Phonics
400
What has a manual for the person who administers the test, a script for the person to read, strict instructions, time limits, standards for judging performance, and record forms or charts?
Standardized Test
400
To which groups do we preteach and reteach target skills?
Struggling Readers; Students with Learning Disabilities; English Learners
400
What are the words called that affect the flow and coherence of text. Knowledge of these is necessary for fluent reading.
Sight Words
500
What is the term for the process of recognizing words by analyzing the syllables in a word?
Syllabic Analysis
500
What is a strategy from Domain 1 for promoting and monitoring independent reading?
I + I Strategy
500
What are the 3 purposes of assessments?
Entry Level; Progress Monitoring; Summative
500
One recommendation for working with All Learners is to use visual, auditory, kinesthetic, and tactile activities. What does kinesthetic and tactile mean?
Kinesthetic – physical motion; Tactile - touch
500
What is the importance of a student being strong in the skill of Phonemic Awareness?
Phonemic awareness is a strong predictor of long-term reading and spelling success and can predict literacy performance more accurately than variables such as intelligence, vocabulary knowledge, and socioeconomic status.
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