General Knowledge
Early Literacy
Phonological Awareness
Phonics & Multisyllabic Words
Fluency
100

Name of the type of literacy program that is systematic and sequential, cumulative, diagnostic, multisensory, and explicitly taught. (PowerPoint 3)

What is Structured Literacy?

100

Text and imagery found in every day surroundings, such as the McDonald's golden arches, stop sign or recycling logo. (Class Connections 5)

What is environmental print?

100

The smallest unit of sound is called ___. (PowerPoint 2)

What is a phoneme?

100

You are teaching spelling using the heart word method. The word is: from.  Under what letter do you draw a heart.

What is "o"?

100

The three elements that compose fluency (PowerPoint 13)

What are accuracy, rate, and prosody?

200

Name the 5 components of reading. (PowerPoint 2)

What is phonics, phonological (or phonemic) awareness, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension?

200

Name 3 examples of Print Awareness or Concepts of Print. (PowerPoint 5)

What are: 

front cover, back cover, spine, title, author, illustrator, turning pages, reading left to right, recognizing words, spaces, or sentences?

200

The name of the boxes used to teach separating sounds in words. (PowerPoint 8)

What are Elkonin boxes?

200

The name of the syllable that has 1 vowel followed by a consonant that makes the vowel short. (PowerPoint 12)


What is a closed syllable?

200

Name the word that means how quickly and accurately a readers reads connected text. (PowerPoint 13)

What is rate?

300

Name the Russian psychologist responsible for creating sociocultural learning theory and the Zone of Proximal Development. (PowerPoint 3)

Who was Lev Vygotsky?

300

The idea that letters and groups of letters represent sounds of spoken language. (PowerPoint 6)

What is the alphabetic principle?

300

The most difficult level of phonological awareness that involves blending, segmenting, deleting, addition or substituting sounds is called ___. (PowerPoint 8)

What is phonemic awareness?

300

Using the letters, C and V, write the pattern for the word: tempt. (PowerPoint 12)

What is a CVCCC word?

300

Name this type of assisted reading:  students reading in unison. (PowerPoint 13)

What is choral reading?

400

Name these two language supports:  

1. Words in two languages that share similar spelling, pronunciation, and meaning. (PowerPoint 2)

2. Students fill in blanks in a a phrase or sentence. (PowerPoint 6)

1. What are cognates?

2.  What are sentence frames?

400

The word that means that the name of the letter contains the sound it represents.  Example:  The letter name "B" contains the sound, /b/. (PowerPoint 6)

What is iconicity or iconic?

400

A student has trouble segmenting the beginning sound or blend in a word from the ending of the word. Example: /b/ . . . /ig/.  Name this level of phonological awareness. (PowerPoint 8)

What is onset-rime?

400

Name the three syllable types in the word populate. (PowerPoint 12)

closed, open, and vowel-consonant-e

400

The student reads words in a passage correctly and at an expected rate but has no expression, phrases words awkwardly, and reads punctuation incorrectly.  This student needs instruction in. ____ (element of fluency) (PowerPoint 13)

What is prosody?

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