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?
The model for "The Simple View of Reading"
What is Word Recognition x Language Comprehension = Reading Comprehension
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?
Explain what a Heart Word is
Words to learn and know by heart because at least one spelling within the word is irregular
BONUS OPPORTUNITY
This is the teacher demonstrating the cognitive strategies s/he uses 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
Explain the Alphabetic Principle
The idea that the language we speak can be represented by letters and letter combinations in writing
DAILY DOUBLE
Describe the process you learned in this course to teach new vocabulary to students
This is the vehicle by which we 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
Phoneme Isolation, Phoneme Blending, and Phoneme Segmentation
What is the Holy Trinity of Phonemic Awareness skills?
What are the three Phonemic Awareness skills that contribute most to early success in reading and spelling?
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 and its value to the child
A conversation between adult and child that is meant to improve the child’s oral language and language comprehension in as little as five conversational turns
DAILY DOUBLE
Explain what is meant by this phrase: Dyslexia results from a deficit in phonological processing