Phonological Awareness
A saying that indicates if the skill at hand is one of phonological awareness
What is "You can do it with your eyes closed"
True or false, individual phonemes only consist of one letter
False. There are many phonemes, or individual sounds, that are created by the combination of more than one letter (ex. ph, th, mm, ss)
Relationship between fluency and comprehension
What is a direct relationship. As fluency of a reader increases so does their reading comprehension.
True or false, a student's prior knowledge in the subject area of a text may influence their ability to comprehend that text
True
Indicate the rime and onset in the word swim
rime: sw
onset: im
Onset is the initial consonant sound of a syllable and rime is the part of a syllable that contains the vowel and all that follows it.
Roughly a third of of words that an adult American would read are these
What are sight words
True or false, silent reading can is proven to effectively increase fluency in readers
False
This type of assessment is conducted for the whole class and informs the need for tier 2 interventions
What is a screening assessment
A rhyming game is practicing this skill
What is phonological awareness
The teacher writes a word on the board and students sound out the individual phonemes and then blend them to say the word. Is this an example of phonological awareness or phonics?
Phonics. Students could not do this activity with their eyes closed because the word that they need to sound out is written on the board.
One method to improve reader fluency
Repeated reading of one section of text via student-adult reading, choral reading, tape-assisted reading and partner reading
True or false, a self correction on a running record is considered an error
False
Definition of phoneme
What is the smallest parts of sound in a spoken word that make a difference in the word's meaning
Ex. Hat and Pat
Definition of the alphabetic principle
What is the understanding that there is a predictable relationship between phonemes and graphemes.
Students who decode words smoothly, recognize sight words and read at a good pace, but have no expression in their voice are exhibiting this instead of fluency
What is automaticity
List three things you may note on a running record
What is a pause, long pause, self correction, omission or a word, error, good expression/ lack of expression, insertion of a word, substitution of a word, or repetition