Literacy and Learning
The definition of "literacy" according to UNESCO.
What is the ability to identify, understand, interpret, create, communicate, and compute using printed and written materials associated with varying contexts.
This is the definition of a phoneme.
What is the smallest individual sound in an oral language?
The unit used to measure fluency.
What is WPM, or words per minute?
The number of tiers that we break vocabulary into.
What is three?
The words that make up the acronym KWL.
The words that make up the acronym LEA.
What is "Language Experience Approach?"
This is the purpose of an initial assessment.
What is placing the student and identifying their needs and goals?
The four components of language.
What are reading, writing, listening, and speaking?
BONUS: The word and definition that was made up for our word builder activity practice.
What is zark, or the act of getting off a plane?
The definition of phonemic awareness.
What is the ability to hear and manipulate the individual sounds in oral language?
The two elements of vocabulary.
What are breadth and depth?
The three segments of a literary lesson.
What are before reading, during reading, and after reading?
The two things a student should review before beginning a reading/lesson.
What are the topic and learning objectives?
This is the type of goal that articulates why a student wants to improve.
What is a long-term goal?
Three examples of learning differences.
What are visual, auditory, kinesthetic/hands-on, memorization/repetition, writing.
What are prefixes, suffixes, and root words?
These are the correct pronunciations of "d," "b," "l," and "r."
What are d--, b--, --l, and --r?
(There should not be excess vowel sounds!)
The tier that contains higher level vocabulary that students should attempt to integrate into their own vocabulary.
What is Tier 2 Vocabulary?
The purpose of a mind map.
What is summarizing a passage and identifying key elements, characters, and events.
The instructional approach that utilizes explanation, modeling, guided practice, and application.
What is explicit instruction?
These are evaluations used to measure and celebrate student progress.
What are ongoing evaluations?
The vocabulary term that refers to the many different ways that students may prefer to learn, such as time of day, noise conditions, lighting, and length of learning session.
What are learning differences?
An important rule to follow when practicing the Language Experience Approach.
What is "write the story exactly as the student says it?"
"F" makes a sound that we refer to as _________.
What is "unvoiced?"
The words that make up the acronym FANBOYS.
What are for, and, nor, but, or, yet, and so?
Comprehension strategies such as summarizing, rereading, reflecting, taking notes, and predicting take place in this segment of a literacy lesson.
The point in a lesson plan (beginning, middle, or end) where you should include fluency practice.
What is the end?
This is the type of goal that articulates the intermediate steps in a learning process.
What is a short-term goal?
The four components of reading.
What are alphabetics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension?
The two primary groups of students that need alphabetics and word study practice.
One method for helping a student identify the number of syllables in a word.
What are feeling for jaw movement and/or counting the vowel sounds in a word?
The two components of writing.
What are composition and mechanics?
The way that the Think Aloud technique works.
What is a tutor who reads the passage, predetermines reading strategies to model, and then models and discusses those strategies?
The three questions that you should ask yourself when developing a lesson plan.
What are "what does the student want to know," "how will I teach," and "how will I measure."
These are the four types of assessments.
What are standardized tests, materials-based assessments, competency-based assessments, and performance assessments?
The four types of learning difficulties adult learners may face.
What are physical, educational, personal, and cultural?
Two things that you can look for to identify an intermediate reader who may benefit from alphabetics and word study practice.
What are inability to recognize familiar words in unfamiliar contexts and inability to decode unfamiliar words?
The formula that we use to calculate WPM to assess fluency.
What is the number of words a student read correctly divided by the amount of time it took the student to read?
The four degrees of vocabulary understanding.
What are:
-I don't know the word/haven't seen it before,
-I've seen or heard the word but I don't know what it means,
-I recognize the word; it has something to do with ________,
-I know the word and I can use it when I write and speak?
True or false? The ability to decode a word always results in understanding and comprehension.
What is false?
GED QUESTION: What is the minimum score needed to pass a GED test?
What is 145?
What are specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound?
What are explicit instruction, language experience, and project-based learning?
The difference between a consonant blend and a consonant digraph/trigraph.
What is:
both sounds are still discernable in a consonant blend, but a digraph/trigraph forms a completely new sound?
The three elements of fluency.
What are speed, accuracy, and expression (prosody)?
Another name for a cloze activity.
What is fill-in-the-blank?
Recognizing cause and effect, classifying information, comparing and contrasting, sequencing, and inferencing are examples.
What are specific comprehension skills?
The type of reader that needs instruction in alphabetics and word study.
Who is a student who has a third grade or lower reading level or who has plateaued?
An example of a time we would utilize a portfolio assessment/student portfolio.
What is 5.09? (other reasonable answers may be accepted)
What are:
-Adults learn best what is relevant to them,
-Adults need to apply what they've learned,
-Adults need and expect respect,
-Adults have a wealth of skills and experience,
-Adults may have to overcome a variety of barriers?
Five of the eight skills that make up phonemic awareness.
What are phoneme isolation, identity, categorization, blending, segmentation, deletion, addition, and substitution.
The three terms for reading level and their meanings.
What are Independent (students read and understand with ease), Instructional (students can decode 90-95% of words and understand 80% or more), and Frustration (students can accurately decode less than 90% of words)?
Tactics you can use to make a writing activity more accessible to beginning students.
What are sentence starters, spelling challenging vocabulary in advance, and allowing the student to dictate while you write (and then having the student copy what was written)?
The three types of comprehension.
What is literal comprehension, inferential comprehension, and critical thinking comprehension?
GED QUESTION: The minimum score needed to pass the civics test.
What is 65?
Rewrite the following goal so that it better fits the SMART goal standard: "I want to improve my math skills." Assume any level of math knowledge for the student.
(Moderator will approve response)
The six drivers of student persistence.
What are sense of belonging and community, clarity of purpose, agency, competence, relevance, and stability?
The six skills included under the umbrella of alphabetics and word study.
What are phonemic awareness, phonics, word patterns, word parts, sight words, and context clues?
The point in the lesson plan where fluency practice should take place.
What is the end of a lesson?
The difference between a lesson plan for higher level students and a lesson plan for lower level students?
What is that the higher level plan will focus more on varied texts, while the lower level plan will emphasize alphabetics and decoding.
The difference between comprehension strategies and comprehension skills.
What is:
-broad based can be applied to a variety of topics and genres and can be used before, during, and after, but specific skills help readers recognize how information is presented and then make decisions?
GED QUESTION: What is the minimum score needed to pass a GED ready test?
What is 148?
True or false: It is okay to share information regarding one student's education with another student if you think it will motivate or encourage the student you are sharing with.
What is false?