EDUC253: ORTHOGRAPHIC
MAPPING/IRREGULAR WORDS EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
2025/2026
Words that sound the way they are spelled or can be sounded out because they have letter-
sound relationships already learned - ANS decodable words
students can read words like in, on, and, hat with these - ANS basic decoding strategies
this refers to the speed and accuracy of word recognition and spelling - ANS automaticity
automaticity is the goal of - ANS phonics and word study
automaticity frees up .......for comprehension - ANS cognitive resources
words that make up roughly 50% of any text, those words that occur most often - ANS high
frequency words
these words can be decodable or non-decodable - ANS high frequency words
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, "instant words" are widely accepted to contain the most used words in reading and writing,
updated in 1990 - ANS fry's sight word list
Fry's sight word list consists of - ANS 1000 words in 100 word columns, the first 100 are the
most frequently occuring
a list of 220 words that are most frequently occurring, not updated since 1936 - ANS Dolch's
word list
benefits of learning dolch's list - ANS facilitates fluency in reading
words whose sounds do not result in the correct pronunciation of the word (of, done)
-don't follow normal spelling patterns - ANS permanently irregular words
words containing letter/sounds students do not yet know (you, they, for)
-don't know yet but will learn eventually - ANS temporary irregular words
any word that we can instantly and automatically recognize without having to decode or
otherwise figure them out - ANS sight words
what is required for a word to become a sight word? - ANS exposure, effort, direct instruction
process we use to permanently store words into long term memory - ANS orthographic
mapping
2 @COPYRIGHT 2025/2026 ALLRIGHTS RESERVED.
MAPPING/IRREGULAR WORDS EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
2025/2026
Words that sound the way they are spelled or can be sounded out because they have letter-
sound relationships already learned - ANS decodable words
students can read words like in, on, and, hat with these - ANS basic decoding strategies
this refers to the speed and accuracy of word recognition and spelling - ANS automaticity
automaticity is the goal of - ANS phonics and word study
automaticity frees up .......for comprehension - ANS cognitive resources
words that make up roughly 50% of any text, those words that occur most often - ANS high
frequency words
these words can be decodable or non-decodable - ANS high frequency words
1 @COPYRIGHT 2025/2026 ALLRIGHTS RESERVED.
, "instant words" are widely accepted to contain the most used words in reading and writing,
updated in 1990 - ANS fry's sight word list
Fry's sight word list consists of - ANS 1000 words in 100 word columns, the first 100 are the
most frequently occuring
a list of 220 words that are most frequently occurring, not updated since 1936 - ANS Dolch's
word list
benefits of learning dolch's list - ANS facilitates fluency in reading
words whose sounds do not result in the correct pronunciation of the word (of, done)
-don't follow normal spelling patterns - ANS permanently irregular words
words containing letter/sounds students do not yet know (you, they, for)
-don't know yet but will learn eventually - ANS temporary irregular words
any word that we can instantly and automatically recognize without having to decode or
otherwise figure them out - ANS sight words
what is required for a word to become a sight word? - ANS exposure, effort, direct instruction
process we use to permanently store words into long term memory - ANS orthographic
mapping
2 @COPYRIGHT 2025/2026 ALLRIGHTS RESERVED.
