Literacy and Learning
The rank of the United States in literacy.
What is 16th?
The definition for the term "decoding."
What is the method of sounding out a word by breaking it down into individual phonemes and then blending them together to identify the word's pronunciation?
This is the definition of a phoneme.
What is the smallest individual sound in an oral language?
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 rank of the United States in numeracy.
What is 22nd?
Give an example of four words that show a word pattern or family.
(Answer to be judged by host).
This is the definition of a voiced sound.
What is a sound that vibrates the vocal chords?
True or false? The ability to decode a word always results in understanding and comprehension.
What is false?
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 styles.
What are visual, auditory, kinesthetic/hands-on, memorization/repetition.
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?
A type of sound that stops when one's nose is pinched shut.
What is a nasal sound?
These are two of the methods for helping a student identify syllables.
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 elements that the lesson planning process can be broken down into.
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 components of language.
What are reading, writing, listening, and speaking?
The three types of finnyquigs.
What are stips, follers, and terps?
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?
What is "how can I find out (more)?"
The frequency that a tutor should walk around the room to help students.
What is anytime they are not currently occupied with a student?
The minimum score needed to progress from a GED Ready test to the official GED test.
What is 148?
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 that are necessary to be considered a fluent reader.
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?
The words that make up the acronym FAT.
What are frustration, anxiety, and tension?
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?
SURPRISE VOCABULARY QUESTION!!!
The words that make up the acronyms ADD and ADHD.
What are attention deficit disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder?
The score needed to pass a GED Civics test.
What is 65 points?
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.
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?
True or false: For dyad/choral reading, the passage should be slightly above the student's level.
What is false?
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 broad based comprehension strategies and specific 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?
What is however long it takes a student to feel confident completing their work independently and meet their academic goals?
The minimum passing score on an official GED test.
What is 145?