Sounds & Syllable
5 phonemes: /f/ - /o/ - /k/ - /s/ - /d/
Mr. Smith is using a test for everyone in the class to see who may need extra help learning to read. This type of assessment is applied like a net for everyone and is called....
What is a screening assessment or screening tool?
b and p
t and d
th (this) vs. th (the)
v and f
What is b, d, th (the) and v?
Name the source of the spelling error:
BUDDer for "butter"
What is pronouncing medial /d/ for /t/ using a tongue flap?
Look at the word pairs below and tell me which ones have undergone an orthographic change ONLY:
sky - skies
sign - signal
bat - bats
muscle - muscular
trip - tripping
What are sky-skies; bat-bats; and trip-tripping
sign-signal (both)
muscle - muscular (both)
The number of syllables in these words: paternalistic, talked, and frosted.
What are: pa-ter-na-lis-tic (5 syllables); talked (1 syllable); and frost - ed (2 syllables)
Mrs. Bailey's first graders are asked to take the multisyllabic word, "walking" and they circle the "ing" and talk about how it's used in teh sentence. This suffix is an example of looking at a word's _______
What is morphology?
Mrs. Tulip asks her students to sort a group of pictures and magnetic letters by their initial sound. Students are comparing Mm vs. Ff pictures/letters. Afterwards they say the letter and its sound and write it in the air. This lesson is an example of.... Choices: phoneme manipulation, phonics, or phonological awareness
What is phonics? Note: This activity involves print and direct instruction with letter -sound correspondences. Phonological awareness and phoneme awareness are spoken/ oral activities - no print involved!
What is substituting a short vowel with similar place of articulation?
Mrs Wordy is teaching her 11th graders a unit on cell mitosis in Biology.
Which of the following is NOT a best practice in teaching vocabulary in her classroom:
A. Asking students to predict word meanings, followed by creating sentences using sentence stems after the lecture/reading.
B. Using concept sorts to categorize words by their meaning and relationships
C. Pre-assessing student knowledge of words using a rating scale and selecting key Tier 2 and 3 words to provide kid-friendly definitions.
D. Assigning a list of 25 words and looking up their definitions in the chapter and glossary.
What is D?
Note: Looking up words and writing definitions is one of the least effective strategies for teaching vocabulary!
Name the word below that does not have /t/ as its 3rd phoneme:
* kitten
*ditch
*batted
What is ditch? /d/ - /i/ - /ch/
The reading specialist has recommended that you use daily phonics instruction to foster an understanding that there are systematic and predictable relationships between written letters and spoken sounds. What is the term for this insight called?
What is the alphabetic principle?
Name all of the examples of minimal pairs from the list below:
tip - top
meal - meet
trick - sick
clothes - close
hunted - hunt
What is tip/top, meal/meet, clothes, close?
A minimal pair is a set of 2 words that differ by ONE phoneme only.
/t//r//i//k/ vs. /s/ /i/ /k/ (2 phonemes are different
/h/u//n//t/ vs. /h/u/n//t/e/d/ (2 phonemes are different)
Describe the likely cause of spelling "chip" as "JIP" ?
What is affrication?
Look at each word and tell me the syllable type in the underlined syllable.
1. clover
2. steaming
3. consternation
4. alpine
What is...
1. What is Open syllable? clover
2. What is Vowel Team syllable? steaming
3. What is r-controlled vowel syllable? consternation
4. What is e-marker or silent e syllable? alpine
A student cannot remember and accurately repeat back a spoken sentence: The cat is playful. This is an example of ___________.
What is phonological working memory?
Mrs. Davis' kindergarten class is learning how to identify and produce rhyming words. By mid-year, they are learning how to clap syllables in spoken words. By the end of the year, they will push pennies for onsets, rimes, and individual sounds in words. Mrs. Davis is teaching the students about what broad skill in reading?
Choose from: alphabet knowledge, phonics, phonological awareness, phonemic awareness
What is phonological awareness?
Note: She may be teaching these other aspects but the question describes phonological awareness continuum. Phonemic awareness =awareness and ability to attend to individual sounds in spoken words.
Phonics = direct teaching of letter sound relationships
pl is to blend as ch is to ______?
What is a digraph?
Orthographic mapping requires which of the following:
a) knowledge of high frequency words
b) phonemic awareness skills
c) letter-sound knowledge
d) none of the above.
What is B and C?
Orthographic mapping requires both knowledge of letter-sound relationships and the ability to attend to individual sounds in spoken words in order to map words for long term storage and retrieval.
For each word,tell me the # of syllables and morphemes in
1. milkshakes
2. teleporting
3. disavowed
What is ...
1. 2 syllables and 3 morphemes (milk, shake, s (inflected ending)
2. 4 syllables and 3 morphemes (tele, port, ing)
3. 3 syllables and 3 morphemes (dis, avow, ed)
There are commonly thought to be six syllable patterns in English words. Name them.
What are the 6 syllable patterns, remember with mnemonic - CLOVER -
Closed
L-consonant e
Open
Vowel Team
E-marker (VCe)
R-controlled
Name the term that describes the formation of letter-sound connections to bond the spellings, pronunciations, and meanings of specific words in memory. This term explains how children learn to read words by sight, to spell words from memory, and to acquire vocabulary words from print.
What is orthographic mapping?
Rank these terms in order from early to latest in terms of development:
A) a child can manipulate and delete individual sounds in spoken words, e.g., say stripe. Say it again without the /p/ = "/stry/"
B) A child can push a penny for each word in a spoken sentence: "The dog is in his yard."
C) A child cannot tell you which word doesn't belong in a set that includes: fog, cake, dog.
D) A child can blend and segment words like this accurately and consistently: mop = /m/- /op/; chip = /ch/--/ip/; stop /st/ --/op/.
What is C, B, D, A?
Note: Rhyming, Words in spoken sentences, Blend/segment onset-rime, and phoneme awareness
You have a student who reads accurately with automaticity in grade level texts. S/he rarely stops to decode individual words because they instantly recognize most words.
Which stage/phase of Ehri's word development do they most likely fall into:
full alphabetic
pre-alphabetic
automatic (graphophonemic)
consolidated alphabetic
What is the automatic (graphophonemic) stage of word development?
Mrs. Buffle uses a daily read-aloud with her class to improve comprehension. She asks for advice to improve her read-alouds. As her coach, which of the following would you recommend to her:
A. Dialogic reading
B. Teacher think alouds
C. Using a Before, During, and After reading framework
D. Introduce and model comprehension strategies with followup guided and independent practice
E. ALL of the above.
F. None of the above.
What is E: all of the above.