Science of Reading
Morphololgy
Understanding Dyslexia
Assessments
Best Practices
100

True or False:  Teachers providing immediate corrective feedback when a student makes an error is a characteristic of explicit instruction


What is TRUE

100

heat, dry, ship, flew all contain 3 of this

What is a phoneme

100

Limited vocabulary growth and background knowledge are known as this

What are secondary characteristics of dyslexia

100

Acadience Reading, DIBELS 8, Istation, MAP Reading Fluency, and STAR CBM are all approved by ODE for use as this type of assessment.

What is a Tier 1 Universal Screener

100

Accuracy, rate and prosody (expression) are all characteristics of this.

What is reading fluency?

200

The context processor, phonological processor, meaning processor, and orthographic processor represent this model

What is the Four Part Processing Model

200

The letters that come together to represent a phoneme,  Hint:  There are 250.

What is a grapheme

200

It is neurological in origin and creates deficits in word reading and spelling

What is dyslexia

200

This assessment is administered after a student is flagged for being at risk, is NOT teacher created, and pinpoints specific skills deficits

What is a diagnostic or Tier 2 screener

200

This is the minimum level of word reading accuracy needed to ensure students comprehend what they are reading.

What is 95%

300

This type of phonics instruction teaches students to attend to each letter and its corresponding sound to determine pronunciation

What is synthetic phonics?

300

There are 44 of these found in the English Language.  They are the most basic unit of sound.

What are phonemes


300

Students that exhibit primary characteristics of dyslexia often have difficulty with this.

What is word recognition and spelling

300

A quick assessment is often found in universal screeners that are regularly administered to monitor students' progress.  

What is progress monitoring 

300

Problems with impaired handwriting and/or spelling due to orthographic coding is a characteristic of this.

What is Dysgraphia?

400

Phonics, Phonemic awareness, Fluency, Vocabulary and Comprehension are often referred to as this.

The Foundational Skills of Literacy

400

Spelling instruction reinforces phonics patterns and also embeds this foundational early literacy skill.

What is phonemic awareness

400

If a student can read grade-level text accurately but is unable to remember details from stories she reads or that are read aloud to her she likely has this type of reading profile. 

Hint:  Think about the 4 quadrant model

What is specific comprehension difficulty?

400

This type of assessment is administered 3 times a year, is brief, reliable, predictive, is NOT teacher created, is standardized, administered to all students, and measures specific foundational skills.

What is a tier 1 universal screener

400

True or False:

Most people are unable to learn how to read even with direct, explicit instruction but we are born with the ability to speak.

What is False?

We are born with an innate ability to learn spoken language.  If provided direct, explicit instruction approximately 95% of our students will learn to read.

500

This equation is known as The Simple View of Reading

What is 

500

This type of morpheme changes the meaning but not the part of speech.

Hint:  ed, s, es

What is an inflectional morpheme?

500

Students that lack this may have difficulty making inferences and predictions when reading about unfamiliar topics.

What is background knowledge

500

These are the four types of assessments outlined in the course.

What are Tier 1 (universal screeners), Tier 2 (Diagnostics), Progress Monitoring, and outcome-based assessments?

500

This term refers to explicit instruction for students to become efficient with print, cursive, and keyboarding

What is Hybrid Writing?