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When children begin to negotiate the sounds that make up words in their language
independently - Answers-They are developing Phonological Awareness
Phonics - Answers-The study of Sound-letter Relationships
Word Analysis skills are NOT critical for the development of what areas of literacy? -
Answers-Articulation
What area of study involves mechanics, usage, and sentence formation? - Answers-
Spelling Conventions
High-frequency Words - Answers-Words most often used
Decodable Words - Answers-Words students can sound out
- Onsets
- Rime - Answers-- Beginning of a word (c)
- The late letters of the word (at)
-Together you get "cat"
How do the majority of high-frequency sight words differ from decodable words? -
Answers-They do not follow the Alphabet Principle
Reading Fluency involves what key areas? - Answers-Accuracy, Rate, Prosody
When students study character development, setting, and plot, what are they studying?
- Answers-Literary analysis of a text
The author's purpose, major ideas, supporting details, visual aids, and vocabulary are
the five key elements of what type of text? - Answers-Informational Texts
When students use inference, what are they able to do? - Answers-Make logical
assumptions based on context clues
Story Maps, an effective instructional tool, do NOT help children in what way? -
Answers-Read at a faster pace
, Which text feature does NOT help a reader locate information in printed or digital text? -
Answers-Glossary
Timed oral reading can be used to assess: - Answers-Reading Rate
Word Walls are used to: - Answers-Allow students to share words they find interesting,
to present words utilized in a current unit of study, and to specify words that students
are to utilize within writing assignments
Context clues assist vocabulary development by providing: - Answers-Information within
the sentence that surrounds an unknown word is used to determine the word's meaning.
Perpetuate - Answers-Cause to last forever
Antimetabole - Answers-Repetition in words
Example: "I know what I like and I like what I know"
Antiphrasis - Answers-Saying opposite of what is actually meant in a way that is obvious
of what the intention is
Example: "After I was so kinda interrupted" after being rudely interrupted by another
person.
Anaphora - Answers-Word or phrase which is repeated at the beginning
Example: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times"
Epiphora - Answers-Repetition of a word or phrase at the end
Which option best exemplifies an author's use of alliteration and personification? -
Answers-It shuddered, swayed, shook, and screamed its way into dust under hot
flames.
Idiom - Answers-A common, often used expression that doesn't make sense if you take
it literally.
"It's raining cats and dogs"
Haiku - Answers-3 unrhymed lines (5, 7, 5 syllable pattern)
Simile - Answers-A comparison using "like" or "as"
"As brave as a lion"
Which type of map illustrates the world's climatological regions? - Answers-Isoline Map
Topographic Map - Answers-A map that shows the surface features (shapes and
characters) of an area.