Emergent Readers, Writers and Speakers
Wild Card
Vocabulary
Literacy Programs and Strategies
Theories
100

Name one principle of alphabetic knowledge. 

Ability to name letters. 

Knowledge of letter sounds. 

Write letters. 

100

Voluntary reading can produce a significant increase in reading achievement if students read a minimum of __________ on their own.


10 minutes

100


You are teaching a student a new word. Which strategy would be most helpful?

A learning a synonym

B hearing the word pronounced

C hearing the word explained in context

D seeing the word on a flash card

C hearing the word explained in context

100

I want my students to be able to self-select their reading material, while I conduct state of the class conferences, individual and small-group conferences, and allot time for sharing. Which literacy program should I use?

Individualized Reading/ Reading Workshop

100

"Books should serve as _______, mirrors, and sliding glass doors." -Dr. Sims Bishop

windows

200

One of the main goals of the instructional practice Read Aloud is to...?

Foster a love for reading. 

200
Give an example of a homophone. 
two/to/too there/their 
200

By age 3, mostnchildren's spoken vocabulary includes about how many words?

1000

200

Which literacy program requires teachers to monitor work at centers while also managing small-group instruction? 

Guided Reading 

200

Which theorist gave us the Zone of Proximal Development?

Vygotsky 

300

What is the best way and most natural way to reinforce high-frequency words?


Reading them in context. 

300

What is prosody?

Reading with expression. 

300

Morphemic analysis is a powerful word-attack skill that is primarily concerned with___.

Meaning. 

300

Which literacy program is based on children’s experience that is shaped into their reading material?


Language Experience Approach 

300

_____ theory describes how familiar situations are understood; situation model theory describes how new situations are comprehended.

Schema

400

A student is trying to pronounce the c in the words cat and cent Using the variability strategy, the student would...?


A try one pronunciation, and if that didn’t work out, try another.

400

A student pronounces pin and pen identically. This showcases a variation in ______?

Dialect

400

What does the text mean when it says that most words that skilled readers meet in print are processed as “sight words”?


Words that are recognized immediately


400

Which elaboration strategy is especially designed for students having difficulty with inferences?


QAR-Question Answer Relationship 

400

Behaviorism focused on external factors such as praise and rewards. While ______  instead is grounded in mental processes that can be studied.

Cognitivism 

500

_____ to children is the most important thing parents can do to support their children’s verbal intelligence.

Talking 

500

Name a characteristic of children’s invented spelling?


The spelling seems to follow a few basic principles.


500

In print, which high-frequency word appears the most?


the

500

You are comparing two or three items with similar traits. Which graphic organizer would work best for this?

Venn diagram. 


500

First this was constructivism. Then social constructivism. Who is responsible for theorizing social constructivism?

Vygotsky 

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