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A word part that contains a vowel or, in spoken language, a vowel sound - ✔✔syllable
Two or more consecutive consonants which retain their individual sounds - ✔✔consonant blend
Two consecutive consonants that represent one phoneme, or sound - ✔✔consonant digraph
Sources of information outside of words that readers may use to predict the identities and meanings of
unknown words. These may be drawn from the immediate sentence containing the word, from text
already read, from pictures accompanying the text, or from definitions, restatements, examples, or
descriptions in the text. - ✔✔context clues
Sounds that can be held for several seconds without distortion - ✔✔continuous sounds
Sequences for how information is selected, sequenced, organized, and practiced. These occur within
each component of reading where a logical progression of skills would be evident: easier skills are
introduced before more difficult skills, so that skills build progressively. - ✔✔Coordinated Instructional
Sequences
Instruction that builds upon previously learned concepts. - ✔✔Cumulative Instruction
Text in which a high proportion of words comprise sound-symbol relationships that have already been
taught. - ✔✔Decodable Text
These words contain phonic elements that were previously taught. - ✔✔Decodable Words
,A prefix or suffix added to a root or base to form another word (e.g., -un in unhappy , -ness in likeness). -
✔✔Derivational affix
The matching instruction that can meet the different needs of learners in a given classroom. -
✔✔Differentiated Instruction
(Keyword: different)
A group of two consecutive letters whose phonetic value is a single sound (e.g., /ea/ in bread; /ch/ in
chat; /ng/ in sing) - ✔✔Digraph
(Remember the word digraph has a digraPH)
A vowel produced by the tongue shifting position during articulation; a vowel that feels as if it has two
parts, especially the vowels spelled ow, oy, ou, and oi. - ✔✔Dipthong
(Remember the sentence, "wOW, yOU look good in that thong (diphthong)! :)
The teacher defines and teaches a concept, guides students through its application, and arranges for
extended guided practice until mastery is achieved. - ✔✔Direct Instruction
Planned instruction to pre-teach new, important, and difficult words to ensure the quantity and quality
of exposures to words that students will encounter in their reading. - ✔✔Direct Vocabulary Instruction
Strategies that help students engage the meanings of a text (e.g., asking questions at critical junctures;
modeling the thought process used to make inferences; constructing mental imagery). - ✔✔During
Reading Comprehension Strategies
A language-based disability that affects both oral and written language. It may also be referred to as
reading disability, reading difference, or reading disorder. - ✔✔Dyslexia
,A part of writing and preparing presentations concerned chiefly with improving the clarity, organization,
concision, and correctness of expression relative to task, purpose, and audience; compared to revising, a
smaller-scale activity often associated with surface aspects of a text. - ✔✔Editing
A framework used during phonemic awareness instruction. These are sometimes referred to as Sound
Boxes. When working with words, the teacher can draw one box per sound for a target word. Students
push a marker into one box as they segment each sound in the word. - ✔✔Elkonin Boxes
The skills, knowledge, and attitudes that are developmental precursors to conventional forms of reading
and writing. - ✔✔Emergent Literacy
The ability to translate language into print (writing) is ____________. - ✔✔Encoding
(Remember prefix en- means "put into", you are putting sounds into print).
Students whose first language is not English and who are in the process of learning English. - ✔✔English
Language Learner
The origin of a word and the historical development of its meaning is called ________________. -
✔✔Etymology
This type of instruction is step-by-step, and the actions of the teacher are clear, specific, direct, and
related to the learning objective. - ✔✔Explicit Instruction
(Remember, explicit means something is "expressed clearly")
Reports factual information (also referred to as informational text) and the relationships among ideas.
This type of text tends to be more difficult for students than narrative text because of the density of
long, difficult, and unknown words or word parts. - ✔✔Expository text
(Remember, Expository is writing that seeks to EXplain and Inform)
, Language that is spoken. - ✔✔Expressive Language
Language that departs from its literal meaning (e.g., The snow sparkled like diamonds; That child is a
handful.). - ✔✔Figurative meanings
What are the 5 components of Reading? - ✔✔Phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and
comprehension.
Grouping students according to shared instructional needs and abilities and regrouping as their
instructional needs change. Group size and allocated instructional time may vary among groups. -
✔✔Flexible grouping
Words of one syllable, ending in "f", "l", "z" or "s" - after one vowel is called the ______________
______________. - ✔✔Floss/ SAMMY Rule
The ability to read a text accurately, quickly, and with proper expression and comprehension. -
✔✔Fluency
Follows a prescribed format for administration and scoring. Scores obtained from these types of tests are
standardized, meaning that interpretation is based on norms from a comparative sample of children. -
✔✔Formal Assessments
(Remember, Formal means having a conventionally recognized form, structure, or set of rules-
standardized)
The level at which a reader reads at less than a 90% accuracy - ✔✔Frustrational Reading Level
Vocabulary common to written texts but not commonly a part of speech; in the Standards, these words
and phrases are analogous to Tier Two words and phrases are typically this... - ✔✔General academic
words and phrases
(Remember, Tier 2 isn't necessarily common in every day language Ex. analyze, restrict, formulate.)
Exam Questions | 100% Correct Answers
| Verified 2024 Version
A word part that contains a vowel or, in spoken language, a vowel sound - ✔✔syllable
Two or more consecutive consonants which retain their individual sounds - ✔✔consonant blend
Two consecutive consonants that represent one phoneme, or sound - ✔✔consonant digraph
Sources of information outside of words that readers may use to predict the identities and meanings of
unknown words. These may be drawn from the immediate sentence containing the word, from text
already read, from pictures accompanying the text, or from definitions, restatements, examples, or
descriptions in the text. - ✔✔context clues
Sounds that can be held for several seconds without distortion - ✔✔continuous sounds
Sequences for how information is selected, sequenced, organized, and practiced. These occur within
each component of reading where a logical progression of skills would be evident: easier skills are
introduced before more difficult skills, so that skills build progressively. - ✔✔Coordinated Instructional
Sequences
Instruction that builds upon previously learned concepts. - ✔✔Cumulative Instruction
Text in which a high proportion of words comprise sound-symbol relationships that have already been
taught. - ✔✔Decodable Text
These words contain phonic elements that were previously taught. - ✔✔Decodable Words
,A prefix or suffix added to a root or base to form another word (e.g., -un in unhappy , -ness in likeness). -
✔✔Derivational affix
The matching instruction that can meet the different needs of learners in a given classroom. -
✔✔Differentiated Instruction
(Keyword: different)
A group of two consecutive letters whose phonetic value is a single sound (e.g., /ea/ in bread; /ch/ in
chat; /ng/ in sing) - ✔✔Digraph
(Remember the word digraph has a digraPH)
A vowel produced by the tongue shifting position during articulation; a vowel that feels as if it has two
parts, especially the vowels spelled ow, oy, ou, and oi. - ✔✔Dipthong
(Remember the sentence, "wOW, yOU look good in that thong (diphthong)! :)
The teacher defines and teaches a concept, guides students through its application, and arranges for
extended guided practice until mastery is achieved. - ✔✔Direct Instruction
Planned instruction to pre-teach new, important, and difficult words to ensure the quantity and quality
of exposures to words that students will encounter in their reading. - ✔✔Direct Vocabulary Instruction
Strategies that help students engage the meanings of a text (e.g., asking questions at critical junctures;
modeling the thought process used to make inferences; constructing mental imagery). - ✔✔During
Reading Comprehension Strategies
A language-based disability that affects both oral and written language. It may also be referred to as
reading disability, reading difference, or reading disorder. - ✔✔Dyslexia
,A part of writing and preparing presentations concerned chiefly with improving the clarity, organization,
concision, and correctness of expression relative to task, purpose, and audience; compared to revising, a
smaller-scale activity often associated with surface aspects of a text. - ✔✔Editing
A framework used during phonemic awareness instruction. These are sometimes referred to as Sound
Boxes. When working with words, the teacher can draw one box per sound for a target word. Students
push a marker into one box as they segment each sound in the word. - ✔✔Elkonin Boxes
The skills, knowledge, and attitudes that are developmental precursors to conventional forms of reading
and writing. - ✔✔Emergent Literacy
The ability to translate language into print (writing) is ____________. - ✔✔Encoding
(Remember prefix en- means "put into", you are putting sounds into print).
Students whose first language is not English and who are in the process of learning English. - ✔✔English
Language Learner
The origin of a word and the historical development of its meaning is called ________________. -
✔✔Etymology
This type of instruction is step-by-step, and the actions of the teacher are clear, specific, direct, and
related to the learning objective. - ✔✔Explicit Instruction
(Remember, explicit means something is "expressed clearly")
Reports factual information (also referred to as informational text) and the relationships among ideas.
This type of text tends to be more difficult for students than narrative text because of the density of
long, difficult, and unknown words or word parts. - ✔✔Expository text
(Remember, Expository is writing that seeks to EXplain and Inform)
, Language that is spoken. - ✔✔Expressive Language
Language that departs from its literal meaning (e.g., The snow sparkled like diamonds; That child is a
handful.). - ✔✔Figurative meanings
What are the 5 components of Reading? - ✔✔Phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and
comprehension.
Grouping students according to shared instructional needs and abilities and regrouping as their
instructional needs change. Group size and allocated instructional time may vary among groups. -
✔✔Flexible grouping
Words of one syllable, ending in "f", "l", "z" or "s" - after one vowel is called the ______________
______________. - ✔✔Floss/ SAMMY Rule
The ability to read a text accurately, quickly, and with proper expression and comprehension. -
✔✔Fluency
Follows a prescribed format for administration and scoring. Scores obtained from these types of tests are
standardized, meaning that interpretation is based on norms from a comparative sample of children. -
✔✔Formal Assessments
(Remember, Formal means having a conventionally recognized form, structure, or set of rules-
standardized)
The level at which a reader reads at less than a 90% accuracy - ✔✔Frustrational Reading Level
Vocabulary common to written texts but not commonly a part of speech; in the Standards, these words
and phrases are analogous to Tier Two words and phrases are typically this... - ✔✔General academic
words and phrases
(Remember, Tier 2 isn't necessarily common in every day language Ex. analyze, restrict, formulate.)
