QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔What is a diagraph? - ✔✔two letters in a word that spell one sound. Ex: Book
✔✔What are the 4 basic principles of phonics instruction? - ✔✔functional, useful,
contextual, and planned
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✔✔What are the 5 different ways to teach phonics? - ✔✔analytic, synthetic,
combination of analytic and synthetic, whole, embedded or systematic
✔✔What are high-frequency words? - ✔✔AKA sight words!
✔✔What are the three kings of high-frequency words? - ✔✔1. decodable (it, and)
2. decodable but contain elements that have not been taught
(how, too)
3. partly decodable (was, does)
✔✔What are the four components of fluency and comprehension? - ✔✔Accuracy,
automaticity, prosody, and comprehension
, ✔✔What are tier 1 words? - ✔✔words we use everyday in our speech
✔✔What are tier 2 words? - ✔✔high frequency words that occur across contexts
✔✔What are tier 3 words? - ✔✔low frequency words and are limited to a specific
domain
✔✔What are the three characteristics of fluency? - ✔✔Accuracy, Rate, Expression
✔✔What are consonant blends? - ✔✔don't make one sound, can have their own. EX:
br, fr, gl, st
✔✔Long vowels say: - ✔✔their names
✔✔What is comprehension? - ✔✔the ability to read text, process it and understand its
meaning
✔✔What are the ten evidence based comprehension strategies? - ✔✔1. question-
answering
2. question generation
3. story structure
4. graphic organizers
5. summarize
6. retell
7. monitoring
8. visualization
9. activating prior knowledge
10. inferring
✔✔What are decodable words? - ✔✔words that can break down into sounds
Ex: into, can't, dog, stop
✔✔What are non-decodable words? - ✔✔words that you cannot break down into
sounds
ex: was, once, want, play
✔✔What does ZPD stand for? - ✔✔zone of proximal development
✔✔What is the zone of proximal development? - ✔✔This is the gap of achievement
between what the student can learn on their own and what they can learn with help from
the teacher.