What are word lists that students are asked to read one-by-one?
100
The ability to decode and pronounce words correctly.
What is word identification?
100
Fundamentals of Teaching Phonics
What is systematic, direct, and explicit instruction?
100
Things that teachers should prioritize with struggling students.
What are key phonics skills and high-frequency sight words?
100
This is the simplest linguistic unit.
What is a consonant sound?
200
Decoding in context.
What is an assessment that requires children to read a passage aloud while the teacher keeps a running record of miscues and misidentifications?
200
Word Recognition
What is making a connection between the word being pronounced and its meaning?
200
This involves beginning with a set of words that contain a phonetic principle and strategically moving focus toward the sound-symbol relationship.
What is whole-to-part lessons?
200
Use three-dimensional plastic or wood letters, or even letter tiles, that children can manipulate while they learn.
What is a physical way for students to learn phonics?
200
You should do this at the same time as teaching students how to read high-frequency words, including sight words.
When should you teach students how to spell high-frequency and sight words?
300
By having children read them both in isolation and in context.
How does a teacher assess sight word knowledge?
300
Phonics
What is the ability to make the correct association between the sounds and the symbols of a language?
300
A part-to-whole lesson.
What is a lesson that begins with a sound and then children blend the sounds to build words?
300
These are ways for students to gain practice with phonics and hone their skills.
What are phonics games, such as a word sort?
300
Common word patterns of increasing difficulty.
What are VC, CVC, CVCC, CCVC, CVVC, and CVCe?
400
By looking at assessment scores from both individually and aggregated for the group.
How do teachers determine what interventions and instruction are needed?
400
Morphology
What is the study of word formation? Students use these kinds of clues to identify words when they rely on root words, prefixes, and suffixes.
400
An approach where students are taught unfamiliar words by comparing them to known words, usually with onsets and rimes.
What is Analogy Phonics?
400
These are three interventions for English Learners, including Speakers of Nonstandard English.
What are: capitalize on the transfer of relevant knowledge and skills from the primary language, explicitly teach sounds that do not transfer, and explicitly teach the meaning of sight words.
400
Embedded Phonics
What is teaching phonics incidentally as part of a lesson with a different central focus?
500
Things to look for when grading phonics assessments.
What are patterns of errors and/or miscues.
500
Context clues
What is using the meanings of words around an unknown word to figure out its definition.
500
Practice, Practice, Practice.
What is the most important part of phonics instruction?
500
These are two interventions for advanced learners.
What are: increase the complexity or pace of instruction and build on and extend current knowledge and skills?
500
Stages of spelling development
What are precommunicative, semiphonetic, phonetic, transitional, and conventional?