Eled 3100 Final Exam Questions and
Answers
What does RTI stand for? - Answers -Response to Intervention
What is the purpose of RTI? - Answers -To help the students who are "at risk"
RTI should support the instruction for what percentages of students? - Answers -80% of
students at "proficient" level
Describe Tier 1 - Answers -What the teacher can do in the classroom to differentiate the
instruction for the at risk students. "universal"- all students receive.
Describe Tier 2 - Answers -When other experts/teachers/parents form a committee and
to decide what is the best way to bring the student back up to the level they are
supposed to be at. Students who need more support in addition to the core curriculum.
Describe Tier 3 - Answers -This is when another factor like a learning disability is
perceived as the cause for the student falling behind. This is when the students is put
into special education. Students who need individualized interventions.
What is the purpose of a basal series? - Answers -Support to instruction of the teacher.
What does ZPD stand for? - Answers -Zone of Proximal Development
Describe the ZPD - Answers -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.
What 3 words best describe fluency? - Answers -automatic, procity, accuracy
Fluency is the bridge between...? - Answers -decoding and comprehension
What strategies best support fluency improvement? - Answers -word wall, readers
theater, ...
Name an activity-commonly used for 'fluency practice', that does not support improved
reading? - Answers -popcorn reading and round robin reading
What is a consonant blend (also called consonant clusters)? - Answers -2 consonants
together
Example: Slide
, What is a consonant digraph? - Answers -2 consonants together that make 1 sound
Example: Fish
What is a diphthong? - Answers -A gliding vowel
Example: Paid (ai, ou, ea, au)
What are decodable words? - Answers -Words that can be sounded out phonetically
What is onset? - Answers -The onset is the part of the word before the vowel; not all
words have onsets.
Example: H in Hop
What is rime? - Answers -The rime is the part of the word including the vowel and what
follows it.
Example: op in Hop
What is morphemic analysis? - Answers -the examination of a word in order to locate
and derive the meanings of the morphemes. Breaking the word apart by prefix/suffix &
root word.
What are long vowels? - Answers -When a vowel sounds like its name
What is phonological awareness? - Answers -understanding of how language chunks
sound
What are the 5 levels of phonological awareness? - Answers -Word, rhyme, syllable,
onset/rime, phoneme
What is the level "word" of phonological awareness? - Answers -knowing that letters
make words
What is the level "rhyme" of phonological awareness? - Answers -Example: cat and bat
What is the level "syllable" of phonological awareness? - Answers -understanding how
words are broken up
What is the level "onset/rime" of phonological awareness? - Answers -The onset is the
part of the word before the vowel; not all words have onsets. The rime is the part of the
word including the vowel and what follows it.
What is the level "phoneme" of phonological awareness? - Answers -understanding how
sounds make up a word
Describe blending - Answers -putting letters together to make sounds
Answers
What does RTI stand for? - Answers -Response to Intervention
What is the purpose of RTI? - Answers -To help the students who are "at risk"
RTI should support the instruction for what percentages of students? - Answers -80% of
students at "proficient" level
Describe Tier 1 - Answers -What the teacher can do in the classroom to differentiate the
instruction for the at risk students. "universal"- all students receive.
Describe Tier 2 - Answers -When other experts/teachers/parents form a committee and
to decide what is the best way to bring the student back up to the level they are
supposed to be at. Students who need more support in addition to the core curriculum.
Describe Tier 3 - Answers -This is when another factor like a learning disability is
perceived as the cause for the student falling behind. This is when the students is put
into special education. Students who need individualized interventions.
What is the purpose of a basal series? - Answers -Support to instruction of the teacher.
What does ZPD stand for? - Answers -Zone of Proximal Development
Describe the ZPD - Answers -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.
What 3 words best describe fluency? - Answers -automatic, procity, accuracy
Fluency is the bridge between...? - Answers -decoding and comprehension
What strategies best support fluency improvement? - Answers -word wall, readers
theater, ...
Name an activity-commonly used for 'fluency practice', that does not support improved
reading? - Answers -popcorn reading and round robin reading
What is a consonant blend (also called consonant clusters)? - Answers -2 consonants
together
Example: Slide
, What is a consonant digraph? - Answers -2 consonants together that make 1 sound
Example: Fish
What is a diphthong? - Answers -A gliding vowel
Example: Paid (ai, ou, ea, au)
What are decodable words? - Answers -Words that can be sounded out phonetically
What is onset? - Answers -The onset is the part of the word before the vowel; not all
words have onsets.
Example: H in Hop
What is rime? - Answers -The rime is the part of the word including the vowel and what
follows it.
Example: op in Hop
What is morphemic analysis? - Answers -the examination of a word in order to locate
and derive the meanings of the morphemes. Breaking the word apart by prefix/suffix &
root word.
What are long vowels? - Answers -When a vowel sounds like its name
What is phonological awareness? - Answers -understanding of how language chunks
sound
What are the 5 levels of phonological awareness? - Answers -Word, rhyme, syllable,
onset/rime, phoneme
What is the level "word" of phonological awareness? - Answers -knowing that letters
make words
What is the level "rhyme" of phonological awareness? - Answers -Example: cat and bat
What is the level "syllable" of phonological awareness? - Answers -understanding how
words are broken up
What is the level "onset/rime" of phonological awareness? - Answers -The onset is the
part of the word before the vowel; not all words have onsets. The rime is the part of the
word including the vowel and what follows it.
What is the level "phoneme" of phonological awareness? - Answers -understanding how
sounds make up a word
Describe blending - Answers -putting letters together to make sounds
