SubArea I: Foundations of Reading Development
The smallest units of speech sounds are known as...
What is Phonemes.
This is ongoing monitoring that evaluates students during instructional learning. The teacher should provide effective feedback.
What is Formative Assessment.
A teacher wants to incorporate information about the Great Wall of China into her unit about famous landmarks. The teacher thinks about her Asian American students while planning her lesson. This teacher likely wants to facilitate..
What is Culturally Responsive Teaching
The concept that letters represent sounds and can be combined to form words is known as the...
What is the Alphabetic Principle
What is Text Structure.
An assessment that identifies strengths, weaknesses, and prior knowledge among students..
What is Diagnostic Assessment.
A. Effective Research
B. Curriculum Planning
C. Collaborative Planning
D. Classroom Management
All of the following are included in the understanding of phonological awareness except..
A. Onset & Rime
B. Rhyming
C. Main Idea
D. Blending and Segmenting
What is Main Idea
What elements of a text can students use to pinpoint specific information and increase their overall understanding?
What is Text Features.
How teachers tailor instruction to meet the needs of all learners?
What is Differentiated Instruction.
Teachers must participate in ongoing learning to improve teaching skills and abilities. This is known as..
Words that we can recognize instantly without having to decode them?
What is Sight Words or High Frequency Words
When students are able to recognize, read, and decode words accurately, this process is known as..
This test is given at the end of a unit and it evaluates the overall learning achievement of the student.
What is Summative Assessment.
The understanding of the knowledge that students should have obtained in previous grade levels and the knowledge they must obtain in future grade levels.
What is Scaffolding.
Which of the following is the process used to spell words?
A. Encoding
B. Segmenting
C. Substitution
D. Vocabulary
What is Encoding
The process of using the text to make generalizations and understanding of unknown words.
What is Context Clues
How teachers track the growth of students overtime. Teachers can usually do this weekly with MTSS and calculate results on a graph.
Progress Monitoring
The guidelines set forth by the state or at the national level that students in each grade must learn?
This is two or more consonants that are grouped together to make one sound.
What is Consonant Blend
Before reading, a 3rd grade teacher previews a text with her students by discussing the text type and vocabulary. The teacher also discusses a previous text read from the same unit and relates experiences using both texts. The teacher is most likely enacting what strategy?
Background knowledge or Prior Knowledge
What an assessment claims to measure?
What is Validity.
The integration of reading instruction across multiple subjects is known as..
It is complex. It begins with one vowel sound and glides into another.
What is a Diphthong.
Which of the Following is a component of Figurative Language?
A. Author's Point of View
B. Expository Text
C. Theme
D. Metaphors
What is Metaphors.
A teacher sees that a student is struggling with understanding how to multiply fractions based on their previous assessment. The teacher will use this knowledge of the data to make an informed decision regarding her next steps for instruction. This process is known as..
What is Data Driven Instruction
What is Technology Integration.
Which of the following IS NOT a diphthong?
A. /oi/
B. /ow/
C. /ou/
D. /ee/
What is /ee/.
When students are able to draw conclusions from the text, they are likely formulating..
What is Inferences.
A group of educators from grades K-4 grade are collaborating to discuss strategies for vocabulary development across grade levels. These teachers are likely participating in..
What is Professional Learning Communities (PLCs).
Understanding the relationship between letters and sounds is known as..
What is Phonics.
The simple of view of reading says that these two things have to happen in order for a student to master effective reading comprehension.
Word Recognition and Language Comprehension
The scoring guidelines used to evaluate student work is known as..
What is Rubrics.
Tactile (Kinesthetic), Auditory, and Visual are all known as what?
What is Learning Styles.