Science of Reading
Basic Phonics
Phonological awareness
Library Facts
Mixed bag
100

this approach to teaching and reading emphasizes phonics and decoding skills  

structured literacy 

100

The letter “b” usually represents this sound.

What is /b/?

100

This is the ability to hear and manipulate sounds in spoken words.

What is phonological awareness?

100

his system organizes books by subject in most public libraries.

 What is the Dewey Decimal System?

100

The first letter in the word “dog” is this type of sound.

 What is a consonant?

200

The “Simple View of Reading” states that reading comprehension is the product of these two skills.

What are decoding and language comprehension

200

A vowel followed by a silent “e” usually makes this type of sound.

What is a long vowel sound?

200

Breaking the word “sun” into /s/ /u/ /n/ is an example of this skill.

 segmenting

200

The person who helps you find books and resources in a library is called this.

What is a librarian?

200

These reading strategy/topic involves predicting, questioning, and summarizing.

what is comprehension (monitoring)

300

This term refers to the ability to recognize words automatically without decoding.

word recognition

300

The letters “sh” in “ship” represent this type of phonics pattern.

What is a digraph?

300

Changing the /m/ in “mat” to /s/ to make “sat” is called this.

What is phoneme substitution?

300

This section of the library is dedicated to children’s books.

What is the children’s section?

300

The word “book” has this many syllables.

What is one?

400

name one of the “Big 5” components of reading instruction identified by the National Reading Panel.

What is phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary,

400

The word “cat” has this many phonemes.

What is three?

400

Counting syllables in the word “elephant” is an example of this

What is syllable awareness?

400

 Libraries often offer these digital resources for borrowing books online.

What are e-books?

400

This tool in a library helps you locate books by title, author, or subject.

 catalog?

500

Scarborough’s Reading Rope illustrates how these strands work together for skilled reading.

word recognition and language comprehension strands

500

The letters “igh” in “night” represent this vowel pattern.

What is a trigraph

500

The smallest unit of sound in a word is called this.

What is a phoneme?

500

This term refers to borrowing books between libraries.

interlibrary loan

500

The ability to rhyme words like “cat” and “hat” falls under this skill

 phonological awareness?