Reading General
The Fab Five include these areas of reading instruction.
What are PA, Phonics, Fluency, Vocabulary, and Comprehension?
This is the foundation skills related to phonics learning (e.g., c says /k/).
What is grapheme-phoneme correspondence?
This (anything we are doing) is going to be so much...
What is FUN?
The host of this very game show.
Who is Alex Trebek?
When you ask students to identify word families, they need to use this skill.
What is rhyme?
The percentage of fourth graders that are meeting basic reading proficiency requirements.
What is 37%?
Effective phonics instruction must be these TWO things.
What is explicit and systematic?
When making decisions about your lessons, you always need to be clear about your instructional...
What is objective?
This pop star was discovered by Usher on YouTube.
Who is Justin Bieber?
This is the most basic (or simple) of PA skills.
What is isolation?
This is the traditional model for LD identification.
What is IQ-achievement discrepancy model?
When adding an ending (e.g., -ing), you will know you need to double the last letter of the base word when it...
What is ends in a VC?
I am a word nerd because I totally love...
What is phonics?
Her heart will go on.
Who is Celine Dion?
PA and _______ are the two best school-entry predictors of reading success?
What is letter knowledge?
What are the competing approaches in the "Reading Wars" (or the Great Debate)?
What is whole language vs. phonics?
The word “pilot” is an example of this syllable pattern.
What is an open syllable?
The reason why, when we make instructional decisions, we consider what gives the biggest “bang for your buck."
What is because we have limited time for intervention?
He knows that the Matrix is everywhere.
Who is Keanu Reeves?
You get the most transfer to reading with these two PA skills.
What are blending and segmenting?
Teaching students with learning disabilities requires two types of instruction. Explicit instruction of skills and...
What is strategy instruction?
A set of spellings that represent the same phoneme/sound.
What are variant correspondences?
This is probably why SPED tends to be more focused on evidence-based practices than other areas of education.
What is because learning is high stakes for our kiddos?
This Star Trek Captain has a building named after him at Jess' alma mater.
Who is William Shatner?
The acronym that helps us remember the components of explicit instruction.
What is TGI-F?