Important Terms
Definition: The ability to distinguish separate sounds in a spoken word. Most powerful predictor of reading success.
What is phonemic awareness?
Which of the following is NOT a concept about print?
Read books from front to back, words from left to right, words from top to bottom, pictures tell the story.
What is pictures tell the story?
Definition: Two letters that spell a single sound, or phoneme.
What is a digraph?
An example of a CVC pattern in a word.
What is cat?
When the teacher knows what skills to teach (defined by content standards) and assessment derives instruction. Systematic or differentiated instruction?
What is systematic instruction?
Definition: Speech sounds are represented by letters. English is an alphabetic language because symbols represent sounds. Sounds are called phonemes.
What is the alphabetic principle?
An effective way to teach concepts about print.
What is a read aloud?
Definition: one vowel sound formed by the combination of two vowel sounds. example: cow, oil, boy, out
What is a diphthong?
An example of a CVCe pattern.
What is hope?
Having the student practice writing letters in a salt tray or sand and saying the names of the letter as they are written would teach what skill.
What is letter recognition?
The ability to correctly point to a letter when the teacher says the name of that letter.
What is letter recognition?
Tracking your finger with the text is a way to teach concepts about print? Yes, No
What is Yes?
Definition: when two or more consonants appear together and you hear each sound that each consonant would normally make
What is a blend?
A miscue where the student reads "feather" instead of "father.
What is graphophonic miscue?
Teaching patterns such as CVC, CVCe is an example of teaching which principle?
What is phonics?
Beginning sounds of a word (letter or letters before the vowel.) /t/ /oy/
What is onset?
Precommunicative, semiphonetic, phonetic, transitional, and conventional are stages of which skill?
Words taught as a complete unit to be memorized.
What are sight words or high frequency words?
This is a reading level where the student reads words with 90% accuracy.
What is Instructional Level?
Having a word wall would help teach which types of words?
What are sight words?
Ending sound of a word (from the vowel onward). Example: /t/ /oy/
What is rime?
A teacher starts with sentences and moves to targeted words. This describes Part to Whole or Whole to Part phonics instruction?
What is Whole to Part phonics instruction?
Definition: the process of decoding a multisyllabic word with an affix (prefix, suffix) added to the base word.
What is structural analysis?
Which reading strategy offers more teacher support, Guided or Shared Reading?
What is Shared Reading?
Which is NOT part of an Instructional Reading Program? balanced, comprehensive, explicit, direct, systematic, tracking.
What is tracking?