The smallest parts of sound in a spoken word that make a difference in the word's meaning.
What are phonemes?
100
Phonics instruction teaches children the relationships between the letters, or _____________, of written language and the individual sounds, or phonemes, of spoken language.
What are graphemes?
100
Facilitates comprehension by signaling certain thoughts and is necessary for readers to comprehend.
What is word identification?
100
The three components necessary for fluency.
What are accuracy, speed, and prosody?
100
Words that have exactly the same sound (pronunciation) but different meanings and (usually) spellings.
What are homophones?
200
The broad category (umbrella) that includes phonemic awareness as well as syllabication, rhyming, and alliteration.
What is phonological awareness?
200
The 44 English sounds can be divided into two major categories - ___________ and ____________.
What are consonants and vowels?
200
True or false: The organized knowledge that one has about people, places, things, or events.
What is schema?
200
True or false: Chunking is not an effective strategy for increasing fluency.
What is false?
200
Word parts that include prefixes and suffixes.
What are affixes?
300
The ability to identify and manipulate phonemes. It is the highest level of phonological awareness.
What is phonemic awareness?
300
According to the National Institute for Literacy, programs of phonics instruction are effective when they are _____________ and __________.
What is systematic and explicit?
300
Illustrate concepts and interrelationships among concepts in a text, using diagrams or other pictorial devices. The GO Chart is one such example.
What are graphic organizers?
300
True or false: DIBELS is the only effective fluency assessment.
What is false.
300
Words from which many other words are formed.
Example: migrate - migration, migrant, immigration, immigrant, migrating
What are base words?
400
Breaking a word into separate sounds, saying each sound as it is tapped or counted.
Example:
Teacher: How many sounds are in grab?
Children: /g/ /r/ /a/ /b/. Four sounds.
What is phoneme segmentation?
400
Two consonants that appear together in a word and stand for one sound.
What are digraphs?
400
The ability for readers to know when they understand what they read and when they do not.
What is monitoring?
400
The ability to orally read sentences expressively, with appropriate phrasing and intonation.
What is prosody?
400
Words from other languages that are the origin of many English words.
What word roots?
500
Types of phoneme manipulation include blending phonemes to make words, segmenting words into phonemes, deleting phonemes from words, adding phonemes to words, or _________ one phoneme for another to make a word.
What is substitution?
500
Vowel sounds formed by a gliding action in the mouth.
What are dipthongs?
500
A strategy lesson that can be used to promote comprehension.
What is ______________?
500
An example of an effective fluency practice activity or strategy.
What is choral reading, partner reading, reader's theater, tape-assisted reading, etc.?
500
Words in two languages that share a similar meaning, spelling, and pronunciation.