Terminology
Term for alphabetic letters
What are graphemes?
When teaching students to learn to read this is taught first
What is sound recognition and manipulation of sounds?
The next step in reading instruction after phonemic awareness: auditory sound recognition, segmenting syllables, and substitution of sounds to make new words
What is letter/sound recognition?
What are Tier 1 words?
What are words that are known and used by the learner?
Four story grammar questions to ask students.
1) Who is the story about? 2) What is she/he trying to do? 3) What happens when she/he tries to do it? 4) What happens in the end?
The smallest part of a word with meaning
What is a morpheme?
The number of graphemes and phonemes in the word "brush"
What are 4 graphemes "B-R-U-SH ?
What are 4 phonemes "B-R-U-SH" ?
Name 4 words that contain beginning digraphs (one per team member)
What are chirp, white, ship, that
Anthropologist, meteorologist, and topography are examples of what word tier?
What are Tier 3 words?
Text that provides information about
What is expository writing?
Specific sounds that can be combined orally to make words
What is a phoneme?
Phonemic awareness practice includes
What are blending, segmenting, adding, deleting and substituting sounds?
Term for two consonants that combine to make one sound
What is a digraph?
The term __________language means spoken language or what is read.
What is receptive language?
The difference between narrative and expository text
What is narrative text is reading stories and expository text imparts information?
The act of blending sounds together to make a word
What is decoding?
In explicit reading instruction the types of responses used when students are practicing
What are individual and choral responses?
Bike, home, cute, mane, eve are examples
What are C-V-C-e words?
The most significant negative factors related to comprehension
What are lack of vocabulary and limited background knowledge.?
Two reasons expository text is often more challenging for students to comprehend.
What are increased vocabulary demand and lack of background knowledge?
The process of spelling words
What is encoding?
When teaching, these are used to gain student attention, maintain their focus or provide correction
One per team member
What are verbal statements and physical cuing that include:
-Get ready -Put your finger on the word
-Read the word? -The word is...what word?
-Let's start from the top.
Two vowels and sometimes "w" that combine to form one sound
What are diphthongs?
Three things to consider when choosing vocabulary to review and teach when using narrative or expository text.
1. Strength of decoding skills
2. Familiarity with the word
3. Background knowledge
Verbs associated with expressions of opinion
What are "I believe", "I feel", "I think"?