Oral Language Development
The Science of Reading
Terminology
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Essay Questions
100

Involves the acquisition of sounds and sound patterns used in language.

What is phonological development? 

100

Decoding X Language Comprehension=Reading Comprehension

What is the Simple View of Reading? 

100

the smallest meaningful contrastive unit in a writing system

What is a grapheme?

100

The ability to recognize and manipulate the sound structure in a language.

What is phonological awareness? 

100

Words that do not follow phonological rules

What are irregular words? 

200

Involves the understanding and use of words and their meanings.

What is semantic development? 

200

Research from multiple fields—education, psychology, and neuroscience—confirms a key set of ideas about how people learn to read and the teaching practices that support these ideas.

What is the Science of Reading? 

200

the smallest unit of meaning in a word.

What is a morpheme?

200

The ability to recognize and manipulate individual sounds in spoken words.

What is phonemic awareness? 

200

Associative learning, teaching to the components of the word that do follow phonological rules, and repetitive engaging activities.

What are strategies teachers can use to teach irregular words? 
300

Involves the use of words and phrases to create meaningful sentences.

What is syntactic development? 

300

Understanding & interpreting information within a text. It results from decoding efficiently & having the ability to understand language.

What is Reading Comprehension? 

300

An approach to reading that follows the Science of Reading. It includes phonology, orthography, syllables, morphology, syntax and semantics. 


What is structured literacy? 

300

The number of phonemes in the English Language

What is 44?

300

This spelling strategy provides students with opportunities to investigate and understand the patterns in words. 

What is word study? 

400

The process of learning new words and understanding their meanings. 

What is vocabulary development? 

400

Using knowledge of the written symbol system (especially letter-sound relationships and patterns in spelling) to translate print into speech

What is Decoding? 

400

the conventional spelling system of a language

What is orthography? 

400

a specific learning disability that is neurological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition. and poor spelling and decoding abilities.

What is dyslexia? 

400

Knowledge of these patterns means that students needn’t learn to spell one word at a time. 

What is the benefit of word study? 

500

The model we built in class that shows the strands of language comprehension and word recognition that are woven together to achieve skilled reading.

What is Scarborough's Rope? 

500

Visual Cortex, Auditory Cortex, Angular Gyrus, and Inferior Frontal Gyrus.

What are the parts of the brain responsible for reading? 

500

the study of the structure of words and how they are formed.

What is morphology? 

500

The ability to read quickly, accurately, and with expression.

What is reading fluency? 

500

The intimidating and ineffective strategy you used to learn spelling words that does not work.

What is memorization?