The average number of speaking vocabulary that children have entering kindergarten.
What is 2,500?
100
Errors with alphabetic letters to sounds,
Errors with letter patterns,
Errors with related word meanings
What are three orthographic principles within errors?
100
When you decide what stage the student is in and thereby know how to instruct the student using Bear's stages of development.
What is the second spelling feature that has been missed in the same category?
100
In this sort, headers are used to establish categories, but the teacher/ partner shuffles the cards and calls out the word without showing it
What is a blind sort?
100
The correct sequence of letters in words that form our system of language.
What is orthography?
200
The smallest unit of sound.
What is a phoneme?
200
All of the prefixes, suffixes, roots, and bases
What is Meaning layer?
200
Identify and explain one problem you could encounter when scoring or administering a spelling inventory?
What is reversals, students cheating, not making a student comfortable, using the inventory as an assessment?
200
This type of sort is beneficial for ELL students
What is a concept sort?
200
When students are instructed within their own zone of understanding
What is zone of proximal development (ZPD)?
300
Being able to exchange sounds at the beginning, middle and end of words.
What is phonemic awareness?
300
Roots cannot stand alone while bases can stand by themselves
What is the difference between roots and bases?
300
When administering a spelling inventory, in particular primary and elementary levels, what is the proper procedure when a student spells 20 or more of the words correctly?
What is go to the next spelling inventory?
300
Teacher defines the categories in advance using key words/ headers and makes it clear how to conduct the sort
What is a closed sort?
300
Students in this stage will explore the pattern layer of English spelling
What is within word pattern stage?
400
The initial consonant(s) plus the vowel and consonants that follow.
What is onset and rime?
400
The study of spelling knowledge and the smallest unit of meaning.
What is orthography and morpheme?
400
Syllable junctures and inflected endings are a part of this stage.
What is Syllable and Affixes?
400
This sort demands the highest level of independent effort and thought due to no clue given to the students in terms of categories or features
What is an open sort?
400
Knowing what word study instruction is needed to match the needs of the child.
What is instructional level of learning?
500
The meaning unit of our language. May be free (a word) or bound (an affix)
What is a morpheme?
500
Two consonants that make individual sounds and two consonants that make one sound.
What is a blend and what is a digraph?
500
The order of the five stages of word study development from earliest to most complex.
What are emergent, letter-name alphabetic, within word pattern, syllables & affixes, and derivational relations?
500
This sort requires students to write each word in the correct category before seeing the word