Oral Literacy
Brain Teaser
Decipher and Decoding Literacy
Language
MISC
100

The acronym NELP stands for what in literacy?

What is National Early Literacy Panel?

100

We use this part of the brain when we look at and recognize written letters and words.

What is the Visual Cortex?

100
Tools or materials that help us make unique sounds

What are Sound Walls?

100

Literacy, Expressive, Informative, Persuasive 

What are the four purposes of writing?

100

Rule-governed behavior 

What is Language?

200

Children who comprehend well go beyond word and sentence comprehension to construct a representation of the situation or state of affairs described by the text. In some theories, this is referred to as a

What is Mental Model?

200

We use this part of our brains to read words aloud or to ourselves and to put words on a page.

What is Angular Gyrus?

200

Different types of speech sounds, more than any other language

What are 44?

200

Composed of receptive (i.e., listening and reading) and expressive (i.e., speaking and writing) components.

What is Spoken and Written Language?
200

Helps teachers understand what students know about listening, speaking, and reading.

What is Oral Language Assessment?

300

The ability to think about and reflect upon language.

What is Metalinguistic Awareness?

300

This part of our brains helps us make speech sounds, form words and sentences, and understand the meaning of what we listen to and read.

What is Inferior Frontal Gyrus?
300

To become readers we must recognize what three elements?

What are Letters of our Alphabet, Basic Parts of a Book, Special Rules?

300

Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, Semantics, Pragmatics

What are the five language domains?

300

The "three cues" in literacy. 

What are Graphic cues, Syntactics cues, and Semantic Cues?

400

Core written language skill for reading and writing development, is being addressed.

What is Phonics?

400

This brain area allows us to hear and tell the difference between sounds in spoken language. When we read, we use this part of our brains to identify the sounds that make up words.

What is Auditory Cortex?

400

Sounding out words, which letters and combinations of letters make which sounds. 

What is Phonics?

400

Inferencing; comprehension monitoring; interpretation of complex language,

What are Higher Order Language Skills?

400

An impairment in comprehension and/or use of a spoken, written, and/or other communication symbol system (e.g., American Sign Language).

What is Language Disorder?

500

The three basis for later reading success

What are Alphabet knowledge, Oral Language, or Phonological Awareness?

500

Effective way in helping students learn and retain information shown by research.

What is Note Taking?

500

Phonological Awareness, Print Concepts, Phonics and Word Recognition, Fluency

What are the Four Decoding Skills? 

500

A variation of a linguistic symbol system used by a group of individuals that reflects and is determined by shared regional, social, or cultural/ethnic factors (ASHA, 1993).

What is Communication Difference/Dialect?

500

The two concepts that enables understanding of words, their interrelationships in and across individual sentences in text.

What is grammar and vocabulary?

M
e
n
u