Speech Soundssss
The Reading Brain
Beginning Phonics
Word Recognition
Spellingggg
100

How many phonemes are in the English language?

Bonus 50 pts: Which letters represent two speech sounds?

What is 44?

Bonus 50 pts: x, q

100

Are more letters processed to the left or to the right of a fixation if the eye is scanning from left to right?

What is the right?

100

To identify, read, and spell the differences between words that sound almost alike, the student must first have developed ________ __________ __________?

What is advanced phonemic awareness


100

In an open word sort,  students must construct the categories themselves. True or False?

What is true.

100

With what symbol do we mark irregular word parts with?

What is a heart?

200

What are the three levels of phonological awareness?

Bonus 100 pts. What skills fall under each?

What is early, basic, and advanced?

Bonus 100 pts.: early-syllables, alliteration, onset-rime; basic-blending/segmentation; advanced: deletion, substitution, reversal

200

How many areas of the brain are involved in reading?

Bonus 100 pts: Name them!!

What is four?

Bonus 100 pts: frontal lobe, parietal lobe, occipital lobe, temporal lobe

200

Meaning emphasis or code emphasis?

Is most strongly supported by research on beginning reading.

What is code emphasis?

200

Word practice should always emphasize the use of words in sentences and passages.

What is false?

200

What is the difference between high frequency words and sight words?

What is 

sight: instantly recognized w/o much effort

h.f.: most commonly used words in English

300

Explain the alphabetic principle as depicted in the hourglass figure

What is... the concept that English uses graphemes to represent phonemes.

300

What is dyslexia? What is dyslexia not?

What is a specific developmental disorder that adversely affects the ability to read and write. 

Dyslexia is not "making reversals" or "seeing things backwards"

300

Meaning emphasis or code emphasis?

Has more student-centered than teacher-led instruction

What is meaning emphasis?


300

Which word practice activity is this an example of?

gob, cob, cub, cup, cap, cab, gab

What is word chain

300

Recalling all the letters in a word is more demanding than recognizing the word in print. True or false?

What is true

400

Explain this image...

What is... sufficient response.

400

Define each of the following terms: (1) phonology, (2) orthography, (3) morphology, (4) semantics, (5) syntax, (6) discourse, (7) pragmatics

What is....

(1) the rule system by which phonemes can be combined and pronounced to make words

(2) a writing system to represent language

(3) the study of meaningful units and how they are combined in word formation

(4) the study of word and phrase meanings/relationships

(5) the system of rules governing word order in sentences

(6) written or spoken communication

(7) system of rules and conventions for using language in social context

400

What percent of words in English can be spelled accurately by sound-symbol correspondence rules alone?

What is 50%

400

What type of activity is useful for helping scholars better understand multiple meaning words by using a visual?

What is word web?

400

By what grade should the spelling component of a program be separate from the reading component?

What is 2nd Grade?

500
What are the six ways we classify consonant phonemes? 

What is (1) stops, (2) nasals, (3) friatives, (4) affricates, (5) glides, (6) liquids

500
Draw the 4-Part Processing Model, Label each part, and define their role

What is (1) correctly labeled/drawn model, (2) correct roles written for each part of the processor

500

What is the floss rule?

when the sounds /f/ /l/ /s/ and /z/ follow a short vowel, the consonant is spelled with a double letter

500

Name 6 word practice activities students can do to practice taught phonics skills?

What is word chains, word lists, word sorts, word building with tiles, word chains and word families

500

What does LETRS stand for?

Bonus: 250 pts: Name one author of LETRS

What is Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling

Bonus 250 pts: Louisa C. Moats or Carol Tolman