Phonological Awareness
Phonics & Decoding
Fluency

Identifying Syllable Types
SOR Basics

100

This skill must be mastered first in order to become a good word decoder.

What is phonemic awareness?

100

These are the six types taught to help facilitate decoding of multisyllabic words.

What are syllable types?

100

These are the three main components of reading fluency.

What are accuracy, rate, and prosody?

100

sit (1)

What is a closed syllable?

100

This type of assessment can quickly identify a student's phonics knowledge gaps.

What is a quick phonics screener?

200

The goal of this and decoding is to create readers who have great word recognition.

What is phonological awareness?

200

The six-syllable types are taught to help facilitate this phase.

What is the consolidated phase?


200

This fluency component refers to reading with expression and appropriate phrasing.

What is prosody?

200

debate (2)

What is an open syllable followed by a VCe (vowel-consonant-e) syllable?

200

This skill should be the focus when a 1st grader names all letters but can't blend sounds to read simple words.

What is phonemic awareness, specifically blending?

300

This is stored in the "letter box" of the orthographic processor.

What are letters, shapes, and punctuation?

300

This advanced phonics skill involves studying the smallest units of meaning in words.

What is morphology?

300

Many struggling readers are below this percentage of accuracy.

What is 93%?

300

cartoon (2)

What is an r-controlled syllable followed by a vowel team syllable?

300

Teaching students to break down words like "caterpillar" and "refrigerator" into smaller parts focuses on this skill.

What is decoding multisyllabic words?

400

These are the smallest units of sound in spoken language.

What are phonemes?


400

This phonics pattern involves two letters that produce one sound.

What is a digraph?

400

This type of reading practice involves reading the same text multiple times for different purposes.

What is repeated reading?

400

butterfly (3)


What is a closed syllable followed by an r-controlled, followed by an open syllable?

400

This fluency-building strategy involves reading the same text multiple times with different purposes.

What are repeated readings?

500

This principle connects speech sounds to written symbols.

What is the alphabetic principle?

500

This is the study of word origin and history.

What is etymology?

500

This component of fluency refers to reading with expression, appropriate pitch and tempo, and pauses at the right places.


 

What is prosody?

500

refrigerator (5)

What is an open syllable, followed by a closed syllable, followed by an r-controlled syllable, followed by an open syllable, followed by a closed syllable, followed by an r-controlled syllable?

500

This skill, which is the reverse process of decoding, is improved when students practice phoneme-grapheme connections through activities like dictation.

What is encoding?