Phonological & Phonemic Awareness
How would you compare phonemes and morphemes?
A phoneme is the smallest unit of sound and a morpheme is the smallest unit of meaning.
How would you portray 'guided reading'?
The teacher would meet in small groups with students at similar reading levels reading challenging texts.
What are the two phases of mental processing associating with comprehension?
1. Construction phase: lower level
2. Integration phase: prior knowledge is conected with textual ideas
What cues to you use when decoding?
Visual, syntactic, and semantic.
How would you define phonological awareness?
Phonological awareness includes hearing and manipulations of spoken words and syllables. You focus on the word as a whole.
List the six genres of literature discussed in class.
Fiction, literary nonfiction, informational, argumentative, poetry, and drama.
List the essential components for comprehension in order.
1. the reader
2. the text
3. the activities OR strategies
4. the situational context
How would you identify a term defined by, "2 letters making 1 sound"?
Digraph
Describe what happens when diphthongs are presented.
Blended vowel sounds are being treated as a single vowel even though 2 sounds are being produced.
How would you demonstrate the four types of vocabulary? (interconnected modes?
Listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
What is the difference between "rhyme" and "rime"?
Rhyme is having words that sound similar and a rime are vowel sounds and the sounds that follow.
What would happen if auditory discrimination was occurring?
The student would hear sounds between words and tell differences and likeness.