Phonemic Awareness
The ability of a person to focus on and manipulate phonemes in spoken words
What is phonemic awareness?
The relationship between spoken sounds and printed text; also a major part of foundational reading skill instruction
What is phonics?
Any word you can read automatically
What is a sight word?
Word Recognition x Language Comprehension = Reading Comprehension
What is The Simple View of Reading?
Wired to speak but not naturally wired to read
What is the human brain?
Pulling together individual sounds or syllables within words
What is blending?
This MN law requires every school to screen every student in K to 3 – including multilingual learners and students receiving special education services –three times per year for: Mastery of foundational reading skills (including phonemic awareness, phonics, decoding, fluency, oral language), and for characteristics of dyslexia
What is the READ Act?
This word does not have a suffix: sing, reading, jumps, camped
What is sing?
Described as the process of the reader using prior knowledge, previous experiences, and the author’s text to construct meaning while reading
What is comprehension?
Important skills and concepts are taught clearly and directly by the teacher. Students are not expected to infer them simply from exposure or incidental learning.
What is explicit instruction?
BONUS OPPORTUNITY
Breaking apart words into individual sounds or syllables
What is segmenting?
This processing system in the brain works with the Phonological Processor to decode words
What is the Orthographic Processor?
These words have at least one spelling within the word that is irregular. They must be explicitly taught, including the irregular part.
What are Heart Words?
BONUS OPPORTUNITY
This is the teacher modeling the cognitive strategies they use to show children how they are interacting with and making sense of a text
What are think alouds?
The cognitive process that has occurred once a person can read a word instantly and effortlessly
What is Orthographic Mapping?
Name and count the phonemes in “closed”
/k/-/l/-/ō/-/z/-/d/ and 5 Phonemes
This is the understanding that the language we speak can be represented by letters and letter combinations in writing.
What is the Alphabetic Principle?
DAILY DOUBLE
Describe the process you learned in this course to teach new vocabulary to students
This is what teachers use to teach much of the content learning in the primary grades
What is a read aloud?
She developed the theory of Orthographic Mapping
Who is Linnea Ehri?
BONUS OPPORTUNITY
What are the three Phonemic Awareness skills that contribute most to early success in reading and spelling, also referred to as the Holy Trinity of Phonemic Awareness?
What is Phoneme Isolation, Phoneme Blending, and Phoneme Segmentation
Besides explicit, systematic, and sequential teaching, name at least one other element of teaching using a Structured Literacy Approach
What is
These are known as the smallest part of a word that has meaning. They are further identified by whether they can or cannot stand alone
What are morphemes?
Explain what a Strive-for-Five Conversation is
A conversation between adult and child that continues for at least five conversational turns.
BONUS OPPORTUNITY
DAILY DOUBLE
Explain what is meant by this phrase: Dyslexia results from a deficit in phonological processing