Phonemic Awareness Instruction
Phonics Instruction
Science of Reading
Structured Literacy
Grab Bag
100
The smallest part of spoken language that makes a difference in the meaning of words.
What is a phoneme?
100
The understanding that there is a predictable relationship between phonemes and graphemes
What is phonics?
100

Decoding x Language Comprehension = Reading

What is the Simple View of Reading?

100
Providing clear instruction with a model and/or example so students know exactly what the teacher means and expects them to do.

What is explicit instruction?

100
Children break a word into its separate sounds, saying each sound as they tap out or count it. Then they write and read the word.
What is phoneme segmentation?
200
The ability to hear, identify, and manipulate the individual sounds—phonemes—in spoken words.
What is phonemic awareness?
200
The letters that represent sounds in written language.
What are graphemes?
200

Phonological awareness, decoding, and sight recognition are what strands of the Reading Rope?

What are the bottom or Word Recognition strands.

200

Providing new content in a sequence from easiest to more difficult.

 What is systematic instruction?

200

The ability to read a text accurately, quickly, and with appropriate intonation and expression.

What is fluency?

300
A term to describe skills such as identifying and manipulating larger parts of spoken language, such as words, syllables, and onsets and rimes—as well as phonemes. It also encompasses awareness of other aspects of sound, such as rhyming, alliteration, and intonation.
What is phonological awareness?
300

Words where part does not "play fair", meaning the sound-spellings are not predictable. 

What are irregular high-frequency or "heart" words.

300

Background knowledge, vocabulary, language structures, verbal reasoning, and literacy knowledge comprise what part of the Reading Rope?

What is the top, or language comprehension strands.

300

I do, we do, you do

What is gradual release of responsibility, or GRR?

300

The fast, effortless word recognition that comes with a great deal of reading practice.

What is automaticity?

400
A word part that contains a vowel or, in spoken language, a vowel sound (e-vent; news-pa-per; ver-y).
What is a syllable?
400

A pair of characters that write one sound, as present in these words: ship, which, think.

What is a digraph?

400

The Science of Reading is:

a. an opinion of some recent researchers

b. a vast body of research

c. a curriculum to follow

d. the standards that must be taught

What is b. a vast body of research

400
In response to a student saying /n/ when asked for the beginning sound in moon, "/n/ is the final sound in moon. /m/ is the beginning sound in moon."

Immediate, corrective feedback.

400

Linking visual, auditory, and tactile modes to enhance learning and memory (i.e., see it, say it, write it).

What is multimodal or multisensory instruction.

500
Blending phonemes to make words, segmenting words into phonemes, deleting phonemes from words, adding phonemes to words, or substituting one phoneme for another to make a new word
What is phoneme manipulation?
500

Instruction connecting the phonemes (sounds) to the symbols/letters that represent them (graphemes).

What is orthographic mapping.

500

A rope is used to represent the process of learning to read because...

What is the elements are all interwoven and must work together.

500

Regular quick checks or assessments of skills to determine next steps.

What is progress monitoring?

500
When students read along as a group with you (or another fluent adult reader)
What is choral reading?