Fabulous Phonics
Vivid Vocabulary
Feel the Fluency
Comprehending Counts
It's All About the Process
100

This is the smallest unit of sound in a spoken word.

What is a phoneme?

100

If you have the word cheerful and break it down when teaching the meaning into cheer + ful + cheerful, or full of cheer, what are you using to teach this word?

What is morphology?

100

Reading fluency includes accuracy, rate, and this third component.

What is fluency?

100

What is is called when we teach a student how to monitor their own reading as they read a passage?

What is self monitoring?

100

Process or Product?  The writing we talked about in class is mainly which one?

What is process?

200

The letters "ch" in “chip” represent this type of phonics sound.

What is a digraph?


200

True or False: Tier 2 vocabulary words are commonly used across academic subjects and are great for instruction.

What is true?

200

This strategy involves two students reading the same text aloud together.

 What is partner reading (or choral reading)?

200

You ask a student to predict what they think will happen, what question should you always ask after they tell you what they think?

What is Why do you think that?

200

Which step in the writing process should the child spend most time on?

What is Pre-writing?

300

What do we call two vowels together where the first one says its name and the second is silent?

What is a vowel team or vowel digraph (like in “boat” or “meat”)?

300

The words “slim,” “skinny,” and “scrawny” are examples of this nuance of word meaning.

What are degrees of words/synonyms?

300

This type of assessment measures how many words a student reads correctly in one minute.

What is a fluency (or oral reading fluency) assessment?

300

Using # to make a comment, tell me in 10 words or less, stopping at a key point and asking students to talk with a partner about what they see are all examples of what?

What is having students summarize what they read?

300

Why is it important to teach students to skip lines on their drafts?

What is having room to make revisions?

400

These are word parts that appear at the end of a root word and can change its meaning.

What are suffixes?

400

Once children have learned the alphabetic code, what model identifies vocabulary as the simple most important factor for comprehension?

What is Scarborough's Reading Rope?

400

Repeated reading improves fluency because it builds this.

What is automaticity?

400

When we teach students to comprehend, we break it down into three different parts.  Before reading is one.  What are the other two?

What are during reading and after reading?

400
Students need explicit instruction on how to take a big event and break it into a small part.  What did we call this in our discussion?

What are the Seed Moments?

500

There are 6 types of syllables.  Name them.

What are closed, vowel-consonant-e, open, vowel team, vowel r and consonant -le?
500

Name one research-based strategy for teaching new vocabulary explicitly.

What is student-friendly definitions / semantic mapping / multiple exposures / use in context, graphic organizers, Freyers Model?

500

What is it called when you teach students how to put several words together when they are reading?

For example, The number of bees     in the wild    have been dropping    for a decade.

What is scooping?

500

What are the three different types of question stems we worked with in class?

What are Bloom's Taxonomy, Webb's Depth of Knowledge and QAR?

500

What are the three areas of focus you will need to teach in your mini lessons?

What are Strategy for Writing, Skill and Writer's Craft?