Phonics & Phonemic Awareness
What is the smallest unit of sound in a word?
A phoneme
What does KWL stand for?
Know, Wonder/Want to Know, Learned
This assessment measures how fast and accurately a student reads connected text/passage
Oral Reading Fluency (ORF)
Who created Reader Response Theory, emphasizing personal meaning-making?
Louise Rosenblatt
How many nephews does Ms. Asbury have?
2
What skill involves hearing and manipulating sounds without print?
Phonemic awareness
This common whole-group structure includes explicit modeling, guided practice, and then independent work
The Gradual Release Model (I Do, We Do, You Do)
What is the term for assessments teachers use regularly to monitor progress and adjust instruction (e.g., weekly checks)?
Formative assessments / progress monitoring
Which theorist developed the Zone of Proximal Development?
Lev Vygotsky
Illinois
Changing cat to bat demonstrates what phonemic awareness skill?
Is the following an open or closed syllable?
Ro/bot
Open
Which of the five components of reading assessments evaluates how deeply a student understands a text after reading, often through retells, questioning, and written responses?
Comprehension assessment
Who is known for Critical Pedagogy, encouraging students to question systems of power in texts?
Paulo Freire
What national park did Ms. Asbury and her brother recently visit?
Yellowstone
Grant Tetons
What is the process of combining individual sounds to read a word?
Blending
Which DOK Level involves recall and reproduction (remembering facts or defining a procedure)?
DOK Level 1
What does RTI stand for?
Response to Intervention
Which theorist proposed the Emergent Literacy Theory, stating that literacy starts long before formal schooling?
Marie Clay
What is Ms. Asbury's middle name?
Jo
What is the term for linking a specific letter or letter pattern to its sound?
Grapheme-phoneme correspondence
Who actually writes in a Shared Writing lesson?
The teacher
A stanine score of 5 is considered what?
-Low, high, average
Average
Which literacy researcher developed the Simple View of Reading, explaining reading as decoding multiplied by language comprehension?
Gough and Tunmer
What month is Ms. Asbury's birthday in?
100 Bonus Points if you can guess the correct date
March 11