Language-Based Learning Differences
Vocabulary & Fluency
Phonics & Phonemic Awareness
Assessment & Instructional Strategies

Syllables

100

A specific learning disability that is neurobiological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word.

What is dyslexia? 

100

Simple books that are written for the beginning reader and contain the specific grapheme–phoneme correspondences students have learned.

What is a decodable text? 

100

The smallest unit of sound.

What is a phoneme?

100

A type of assessment, given to all learners, to identify students who may be at risk for reading failure. 

What is a screening assessment? 

100

*her

*start

*shirt

*nurse

*corn

Are all examples of: 

What are r-controlled vowels? 

200

systematic, explicit instruction that integrates listening, speaking, reading, and writing.

What is structured literacy? 

200

*assisted reading

*repeated oral reading

*being read out loud to

Are all strategies to build: 

What is fluency? 

200

An understanding of how words can be broken down into smaller units of meaning such as roots, prefixes, and suffixes.

What is morphological awareness? 

200

an assessment type designed to determine a student's progress toward meeting certain goals or response to intervention.

What is a progress monitoring assessment? 

200

*hot

*pit

*cot

*dad

*set

Are all examples of what kind of syllable? 

What are closed syllables? 

300

When a student has trouble decoding and making meaning from text, what type of reading difficulty/deficit is this known as...

What is double deficit? 

300

The combination of reading rate and accuracy is commonly referred to as: 

What is fluency? 

300

The smallest unit of meaning in a word. 

What is a morpheme? 

300

Should students mainly be taught to use phonemes and graphemes when learning to read....

What is, "Absolutely!"?

300

*fry

*sky

*hi

*so

Are all examples of what type of syllable?

What are open syllables? 

400

The type of reading program essential to teach students with language-based learning differences to read and write. 

What is structured literacy? 

400

instruction in word meanings that can occur before or while reading a text. 

What is vocabulary instruction? 

400

an umbrella term that includes: words and syllables, onset and rhyme, phonemes. It is an understanding of the spoken sounds in our language. 

What is phonological awareness? 

400

the ability to break words down into individual sounds.

What is phoneme segmentation? 

400

*jumble

*thimble 

*battle

*middle 

Are all samples of what kind of syllable type? 

What are consonante-le words?
500

How many syllable types are there?

What are 6?

500
A conceptual model which contains two main sections: Word Recognition and Language Comprehension. Each of these comprises several smaller strands. Woven together, these strands become the rope that represents complete skilled reading. All the components are interconnected and interdependent.


What is Scarborough's Reading Rope?

500

A conceptual for word recognition is a simplified model that illustrates how the brain reads or recognizes words. It illustrates that there are four processes that are active in the reading brain including: phonological, orthographic, meaning, and context processors.

What is The Four-Part Processing Model?

500

Decoding (D) x Language Comprehension (LC) = Reading Comprehension (RC)

What is the simple view of reading?

500

This is the most common type of syllable: 

What are closed syllables? 

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