Development & Language
Print Concepts & Phonological Awareness
Phonics & Spelling
Fluency, Vocabulary, Comprehension
Writing & Dyslexia
100

According to the Simple View of Reading, a child with above average oral language ability but poor decoding skills demonstrates a reading profile that is sometimes associated with...

Dyslexia

100

This is the smallest unit of sound.

Phoneme

100

Two letters that work together to make one sound (ph, ch, th, wh, sh)

Digraphs

100

Choral reading is used to help students improve in what area?

Reading Fluency

100

What type of writing rubric focuses on the required elements in the beginning, middle, and end of the writing piece?

Genre-specific rubric

200

Which part of the brain is responsible for articulation and word analysis and is over-activated with dyslexia?

Broca's area

200

How many phonemes are in the word shower?

3
200

This is a sound formed by the combination of two vowels; the sound begins as one vowel and moves toward another (oi)

Diphthong

200

The vocabulary word circumference is which tier? 1, 2, or 3?

Tier 3

200

Dyslexia is a paradox - the same person who struggles to read quickly often has a very high ____________.

intelligence

300

Which part of Scarborough's Rope includes the following reading skills:  phonological awareness, decoding, and sight recognition (of familiar words)?

Word Recognition

300

How many phonemes are in the word quilt?

5
300

Smallest meaningful part of a word. "un-", "break", and "-able" in the word "unbreakable"

Morphemes

300

This tier of vocabulary words represent high frequency, high utility, sophisticated words.  

Tier 2

300

This type of early writing instruction is when the teacher releases responsibility to the students by "sharing the pen."

Interactive Writing

400

In this type of instruction, teachers model how to complete tasks and give opportunities for students to practice with feedback.

Explicit

400

What phonological awareness skill does this lesson focus on?

Play a word game where initial sounds are changed and children have to figure out the new word (e.g., /P/ /I/ /N/ but change the /P/ to /T/)

Phonemes

400

Which of Ehri's 5 Stages of word recognition is... 

Reads words by forming connections between some of the letters and the sounds they represent

Partial Alphabetic

400

Which text complexity has the following metrics:  text structure, language conventionality/clarity, knowledge demands, levels of meaning/purpose

Qualitative

400

This phase of writing development has semi-recognizable pictures and the student can tell about the pictures when asked.


Pictorial

500

Child: "No need help"

Parent: "I don't need help. Okay, you can do it by yourself.

This is an example of:

Cloze sentence and recasting

500

A teacher just taught a lesson clapping out the syllables of the word backyard (back-yard)?  What phonological skill should she/he teach next?

Onset-rimes

500

A first grade teacher has taught her/his class single consonants and short vowels, digraphs, and blends.  What phonics skill should she/he teach next?

VCe pattern (e.g. rate)

500

While teaching the predicting strategy during a read aloud, it is important that the teacher has her/his students do what other reading strategy simultaneously?

Monitoring

500

Dyslexia is characterized by difficulties with word recognition, poor spelling, and decoding abilities and typically result from a deficit in which component of language?

Phonological awareness, specifically phonemic awareness