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Informed teachers are _____ assurance against reading failure. ✔Correct Answer-our best
phonics ✔Correct Answer-the study of the relationships between letters and the sounds they
represent
phonemic awareness ✔Correct Answer-conscious awareness of the individual speech sounds
(constants and vowels) in spoken syllables and the ability to consciously manipulate those sounds.
syllable ✔Correct Answer-Unit of pronunciation that is organized around a vowel; it may or may
not have consonants before or after the vowel.
orthography ✔Correct Answer-writing system for representing language
morphophonemic ✔Correct Answer-deep alphabetic writing system organized by both sound-
symbol correspondences and morphology (English orthography)
morpheme ✔Correct Answer-in language, the smallest unit that carries meaning
metalinguistic awareness ✔Correct Answer-ability to think about and reflect on the structure of
the language itself
simple view of reading ✔Correct Answer-word recognition (decoding) x language comprehension
(comprehending) = reading comprehension
decoding ✔Correct Answer-ability to translate a word from print to speech (sound-symbol
correspondences)
discourse ✔Correct Answer-written or spoken communication ("the exchange") of information and
ideas (between writer & reader)
Listening comprehension may _____ reading comprehension, but the reverse is _______.
✔Correct Answer-exceed, not true
phonology ✔Correct Answer-phonemes can be sequenced, combined, and pronounced to make
words (rule system withing language) (sounds /p/ and /k/ are never adjacent)
morphology ✔Correct Answer-study of meaningful units in a language and how the units are
combined in word formation (Nat- root, Nature- noun, natural- adjective)
semantics ✔Correct Answer-study of word and phrase meanings and relationships (rank has
multiple meanings)
syntax ✔Correct Answer-system of rules governing permissible word order in sentences ("Our
district recruits new teachers" "New teachers our district recruits")
, academic language ✔Correct Answer-written or spoken language that is more stylistically formal
orthographic mapping ✔Correct Answer-mental process used to store words for immediate
retrieval
Learning ___ depends heavily on ____ of recognized written symbols with _____ and the eventual
connection of those sound patterns with _____. ✔Correct Answer-to recognize words, accurate
matching, spoken language, meaning
Four Part Processing Model ✔Correct Answer--context processor: background knowledge
- meaning processor: vocabulary
-phonological processor: speech sound system
-orthographic processor: spelling system
phonological processing system ✔Correct Answer-enables us to perceive, remember, interpret ,
and produce the speech- sound system of our own language and others
orthographic processing system ✔Correct Answer-several functions of recognition and recall of
written language symbols
grapheme ✔Correct Answer-letter representing unit of sound (phonemes)
meaning processing system ✔Correct Answer-(semantic) interprets meanings of words in and out
of context
context processing system ✔Correct Answer-interact with and provide support for the meaning
processor.
Scarborough's Reading Rope ✔Correct Answer-Language comprehension (background knowledge,
vocab, syntax/semantics, verbal reasoning & literacy knowledge) + word knowledge (decoding, sight
words, phonological awareness) = skilled reading
Dyslexia ✔Correct Answer-an impairment of reading accuracy and fluency attributable to an
underlying phonological process problems, usually associated w/ other kinds of language- processing
difficulties.
Basic questions to answer with assessment are: ✔Correct Answer-1. Who needs help?
2. What kind of help do they need?
3. Is the help helping?
4. If not, what needs to change?
automaticity ✔Correct Answer-the ability to read quickly and accurately w/o concious effort
Ehri's Phases of Word- Reading Development ✔Correct Answer-Prealphabetic- incidental visual
cues, general concepts of print
Early alphabetic- letter names and some letter sounds; early phonological/ phonemic awareness,
syllable, onset-rime, initial phonemic matching
Later alphabetic-start automatic sight word recognition (regular and a few irregular words); initial set
of phoneme/grapheme correspondences; basic phonemic awareness; segmentation and blending of
3-4 phoneme words