Assessment
Key Terms
Instruction
Strategies
Wild Card
100
Subcategory involving the ability to distinguish the separate phonemes in a spoken word.
What is phonemic awareness?
100
The development of phonemic awareness is an important teaching goal for these teachers.
What are kindergarten and first grade teachers?
100
Children learn to identify a word that begins or ends with a particular sound. Example: When shown a brush, car, and doll, they can identify doll as the word that ends with /l/.
What is identifying sounds in words?
100
This principle states that speech sounds are represented by letters.
What is the alphabetic principle?
200
Children look at pictures and supply rhyming words or produce the beginning sounds for picture names.
What is the Phonological Awareness Literacy Screening (PALS) System: Rhyme Awareness and Beginning Sound Subtests?
200
Speech sound in a language that signals a difference in meaning. Smallest units of speech.
What are phonemes?
200
Performing these activities provides opportunities to orally match, isolate, blend, and substitute sounds and to segment words into sounds.
What is to sing songs, chant rhymes, read aloud word-play books, and play games?
200
Children learn to recognize the 'odd' word in a set of three words. Example When the teacher says ring, rabbit, and sun, they recognize that sun doesn't belong.
What is categorizing sounds in words?
200
Two levels of language; Level 1 consists of individual sounds Level 2 consists of sounds in larger units of language
What is phonemic awareness and words and syllables?
300
40 minute group test designed for children ages 5-8 measures their ability to isolate individual sounds in spoken words and understand the relationship between letters and phonemes.
What is the Test of Phonological Awareness (TPA)?
300
English letter or letters that represent phonemes. Example: /b/ in bat /k/ in duck
What are graphemes?
300
1. Age appropriate activities for 4, 5, and 6 year olds; songs, nursery rhymes, riddles, and wordplay books. 2. Planned and purposeful instruction. 3. Crucial that children perceive the connection between oral and written language by integrating activities with other components of a balanced literacy program.
What is phonemic awareness instruction criteria?
300
Children learn to remove a sound from a word and substitute a different sound. Example bar to car tip to top gate to game
What is substituting sounds to make new words?
300
Complete phonemic awareness assessment includes this.
What is sound identity, sound isolation, sound blending, sound deletion, sound substitution, and sound segmentation?
400
Individual oral test for kindergartners measures their ability to accurately segment the phonemes in words; contains 22 items and takes less than 10 minutes to administer.
What is the Yopp-Singer Test of Phonemic Segmentation?
400
Vowels are speech sounds made from a clear path from the vocal folds to the mouth. Consonants are this.
What are speech sounds that occur when airflow is obstructed in some way by the mouth, teeth, or lips?
400
Average amount of time needed for instruction.
What is 20 hours?
400
Children learn to blend two, three, or four individual sounds to form a word. Example Teacher says /b/ /i/ /g/ Child repeats sounds to form the word big.
What is blending sounds to form words?
400
Two strategies needed for phonics and spelling.
What is blending and segmenting?
500
Teacher talks, student listens, and then student says something. This is not involved.
What is print?
500
Onsets and rimes occur in a single syllable. The onset is the initial consonant sound or consonant blend where the rime is this.
What is the vowel sound and any consonants that follow?
500
Recommended instruction for both English and English Learners.
What is explicit instruction?
500
Children learn to break a word into its beginning. middle, and ending sounds. Example feet into /f/ /e/ /t/ go into /g/ /o/
What is segmenting a word into sounds?
500
Prerequisite for learning to read and is the most powerful predictor of later reading achievement.
What is phonemic awareness?
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