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The percentage of school-age children with Dyslexia.
What is 2-8%?
100
The definition of a phoneme.
What are the individual sounds of a language?
100
Teachers can use these to help students increase reading comprehension by helping him/her organize the contents of the story.
What are Story Maps?
100
Every child receiving special education services must have one of these, which includes measurable goals, specially designed instruction, and related services.
What is an IEP, or Individualized Education Plan?
100
The two basic processes involved in reading.
What are Decoding & Comprehension skills?
200
The approximate percentage of children in school that have difficulty with reading.
What is approximately 10-15%?
200
This term means understanding the grapheme-phoneme relationship and translating printed words into representations similar to oral language.
What is Decoding?
200
A strategy developed by R.G. Heckelman of teaching reading to a child at home. This method builds fluency in reading and requires no special training.
What is the Neurological Impress Method (N.I.M.)?
200
A method used for identifying a learning disability that allows for early and effective responses to children's learning difficulties.
What is RTI, or Response to Intervention?
200
A term used to describe a child who is diagnosed as both Dyslexic and gifted.
What is Twice Exceptional?
300
The percentage of children with an identified Learning Disability who struggle with reading.
What is 80%?
300
This term refers to the ability to think about the sounds in a word rather than just the meaning of the word.
What is Phonological Awareness?
300
A reading curriculum or method of teaching reading that was named in our textbook or lectures.
What is Corrective Reading, SRA Direct Instruction, SpellRead, Wilson Reading, Neurological Impress Method, Assisted Reading, Repeated Readings, Prime-o-tech, Listen-Read, Dyad Reading, or reading with taped Audio support (Answers will vary)?
300
The words behind the acronym "LRE".
What are Least Restrictive Environment?
300
One early indicator of Dyslexia in preschool-aged children.
What is trouble learning common nursery rhymes, a lack of appreciation of rhymes, persistent baby talk, difficulty in learning and remembering letters, or failure to learn letters in his/her name (Answers may vary)?
400
The percentage of children diagnosed with Dyslexia that see letters and words backward all the time.
What is 5%?
400
The definition of Strephosymbolia.
What is a learning disorder in which symbols and phrases, words, or letters appear to be reversed or transposed in reading?
400
An example of using the Orton-Gilligham Method to teach students the letter "V".
What is any multi-sensory activity, including tracing letters with their fingers in sand/water/mud/carpet, making the letter out of pipe-cleaners/blocks/clay, forming the letter with their own body or as a group, etc. (Answers will vary)?
400
Using this technique, teachers create learning experiences that address multiple senses.
What is Visual, Auditory, Kinesthetic, and Tactile (VAKT)?
400
The five forms of orthographic knowledge.
What are Orthographic structure, orthographic coding, orthographic-linguistic mapping, internal lexicon, and metacognitive knowledge about the writing system?
500
The percentage of students that struggle with some aspect of phonological awareness.
What is more than 20%?
500
The inability to retrieve rapidly the spoken referent for visual stimuli.
What is a Naming Speed Deficit?
500
An example of what the "Clarifier" would do while reading "Goldilocks and The Three Bears" according to the Reciprocal Teaching Strategies.
What is: Address confusing parts of the story and attempt to answer the questions that were just posed. The clarifier makes attempts to make clear vocabulary that is not understood. A variety of example will be accepted, e.g. the clarifier may make sure that the rest of the group understands what “porridge” is.
500
The words behind the acronym FCRR, from which influential research about reading is coming.
What is Florida Center for Reading Research (FCRR)?
500
One disadvantage of assessing for Dyslexia with the Discrepancy Model.
What is: it is a "Wait and Fail" Model, Students often struggle for years before being identified, students receive little support during the early grades, etc. (Answers may vary)?