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Vellutino and colleagues researched kindergarten students that had low reading scores and they found that after one semester of tutoring, that _______ of the students raised their reading scores to be average or above average.

67%

A book is considered to be at the instructional level if it can be read with:

90% accuracy

Select the skills associated with onset and rime.

Onset and rime completion Blending onset and rime Generating rhyming words

reading comprehension

The process of simultaneously extracting and constructing meaning through interaction and involvement with written language.

language comprehension

This consists of the interweaving of language components, including background knowledge, vocabulary, and language structures to name a few.

modes

This includes traditional expressions of meaning such as spoken and written language, as well as other forms of expression, such as Audio Meanings, Gestural Meanings, and Multimodal Meanings, to name a few.

literacy

This term refers to a wide range of skills and abilities related to reading, writing, listening, speaking, viewing, and performing, along with an array of perspectives within a sociocultural context.

text

This term refers to printed documents, as well as other forms of communication in which a listener, speaker, reader, writer, or viewer can make meaning of a message.

The website WWC is an acronym for ____________.

What Works Clearninghouse

How often did someone in your family read aloud to you when you were a child? (There is no wrong answer; select the one that best describes your experience.)

a couple of times a month a couple of times a week every day never/hardly ever

Phonemic awareness is:

a foundational reading skill, a sub skill of phonological awareness, a strong predictor of future reading success

Select the terms associated with phoneme manipulating. (Select 5 terms.)

adding, blending, substituting, segmenting, deletion

Change clad to clads.

addition

Phonics instruction is effective for which of the following groups of children?

all beginning readers

Phonics instruction has an impact on a child's:

both reading and writing ability

Informal assessment tools____________:

can be used by teachers to help plan instruction

According to the podcast titled Hard Words, many _________ do not know scientific research about how children learn to read.

college professors, teachers, parents, principals

This term refers to the group that receives another competing intervention.

comparison group

Change mults to muts.

deletion

Informal assessment provides information that allows teachers to:

deliver instruction at the right level of difficulty

Informal assessment tools help teachers to:

determine which students need extra support

A fluent reader__________________:

divides text into meaningful chunks pauses appropriately within and at the end of sentences reads with expression

An activity that incorporates both segmenting and blending. For example, children are shown a picture representing a three-phoneme picture and told to move a chip for each phoneme into a series of boxes below the picture.

elkonin boxes

According to the podcast titled Hard Words, the research on reading suggests that every school should have a heavy emphasis on _____________.

explicit phonics instruction

According to Mem Fox, children should never watch television no matter how educational it is.

false

According to Mem Fox, we can read well without understanding the meaning of words as long as we use phonics.

false

Brain Gym is backed up by scientific evidence.

false

Most vocabulary is learned intentionally.

false

Teachers should teach the new consonant sound in the medial position.

false

The best phonics-based skills program can transform a child into a strong reader even if the child has limited knowledge of the language and an impoverished vocabulary.

false

Velluntino and colleagues assert that it doesn't matter the kind of instruction children need because all kinds of instruction work for all kids.

false

Effective phonics instruction may improve:

fluency, word recognition, spelling

Phoneme blending is:

harder than onset and rime

Silent, independent reading_______________:

has not been proven effective as an instructional technique

Struggling readers may have slower fluency rates because they ___________:

have no background knowledge on the subject decode unfamiliar words are reading text that is beyond their reading level

Phonics instruction:

is one component of reading language program

phonemic awareness

is the most advanced level of phonological awareness.

Phonics instruction is most effective when it begins in:

kindergarten or first grade

The ability to understand the words read on a page.

language comprehension

The ability to understand and make sense of spoken language.

listening comprehension

Which informal assessment requires a student to read aloud from a text?

oral reading accuracy

_______________ assessment can be given as part of an Informal Reading Inventory or combined with a comprehension assessment.

oral reading accuracy

"Round robin" reading does not increase fluency because:

passages assigned to students to read are only read once students only read small amounts of text teachers do not give feedback

Which of the following is not an example of a phoneme awareness task?

phoneme concentration

The ability to modify, change, or move the individual sounds in a word.

phoneme manipulation

Individual speech sounds.

phonemes

An awareness of the smallest individual units of sound in a spoken word.

phonemic awareness

The ability to hear and manipulate the individual sounds within words.

phonemic awareness

Teaching students that the letters ph represent the /f/ sound is an example of what type of instruction?

phonics

Which of the following is a true statement?

phonics involves looking at the relationship between letters and sounds in written form

A broad term encompassing awareness of various-sized units of sounds in spoken words such as rhymes, syllables, and phonemes.

phonological awareness

The best way to teach letter-sound relationships is to:

provide ample practice to all students use an "I do", "We do", "You do" teaching method continue to practice one set of skills until all students achieve mastery

Which of the following is an example of a common informal reading assessment?

qualitative reading inventory running record phonemic awareness assessment

This frequently involves observing and interviewing participants to obtain detailed accounts of their personal experiences and perspectives.

qualitative research

Which activity promotes fluency in students?

reading a book that is at the right level for independent reading listening to someone model fluent reading receiving guidance when reading aloud

This ability is the ultimate goal of reading.

reading comprehension

control group

receives no intervention

phonological awareness

refers to a global awareness of the sound structures of speech and the ability to manipulate those structures.

automaticity

refers to accurate and speedy word recognition

phonics

refers to knowledge of letter sounds and the ability to apply that knowledge in decoding unfamiliar printed words.

Phoneme deletion tasks assess a child's ability to:

remove a sound from a word

Which activity listed below, works best for increasing fluency?

repeated readings

Model fluent reading, then have students________________:

reread the text on their own

The National Reading Panel relied on _________ rather than ___________.

research, experience

Listening to an adult model fluent reading____________:

serves as a strategy for building fluency gives students a chance to hear how the written text should sound demonstrates fluency to students

Assessments should be given:

several times during the school year

intervention

some new instructional component or strategy to test its effectiveness

Who should be given informal assessments?

students who are struggling, good, average readers

Change culp to pulp.

substitution

Change stap to spat.

switch

According to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), literacy is: ________ (select 2 choices).

the foundation for lifelong learning a fundamental human right

onset

the initial consonant or consonant cluster of a one-syllable word.

Phonics instruction teaches:

the relationship between letters and sounds in written form

rime

the vowel and any consonants that follow the onset.

A large number of students who have trouble developing literacy skills do not necessarily have learning disabilities.

true

According to Mem Fox, children who are read to at a young age and on a regular basis acquire listening skills, as well as a desire to hear more stories.

true

According to Mem Fox, reading is being able to make sense from marks on the page.

true

According to Mem Fox, the more we know about life, the world, and all things in it, the easier it is to read.

true

Despite its efficiency and simplicity, the alphabet is actually the root cause of reading difficulties for many people.

true

Knowledge leads to more knowledge, making learning easier.

true

Meta-analysis involves taking the findings from many studies and combining them to draw conclusions.

true

Reading several books about a similar theme (e.g., community helpers, insects, weather) provides a helpful repetition of words and concepts that build valuable background knowledge.

true

Scientifically-based research includes a broad array of research methods to answer questions about literacy.

true

Teachers should ensure they are articulating the vowel sounds correctly before starting instruction.

true

The National Reading Panel Report was published in 2000.

true

The Simple View of Reading is a research-supported model of the learning process.

true

Knowledge of words.

vocabulary

This refers to the words children must know to communicate effectively.

vocabulary

The ability to read words on a page.

word recognition