Exam questions and answers
derived score ✔✔when raw scores are converted by numerical
transformation ( raw scores to percentile ranks or standard scores
percentage ✔✔includes scores in a specified distribution that fall below the
point at which a given score lies.
4 Part Processing Model of Word Recognition ✔✔phonological,
orthographic, meaning, and context processors
National reading panel ✔✔examined the teaching of reading in grades k-
12, they found that providing the phonemic awareness training to young
children was beneficial, was created in 2000 and influenced the No Child
Left Behind.
peer review ✔✔a review by people with similar professional qualification
Simple View of Reading ✔✔Decoding X Language Comprehension =
Reading Comprehension
Stages of Reading Development ✔✔Emergent, Early, Transitional and
Fluent
,anaphora ✔✔the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of
successive clauses lending them emphasis
2 biggest predictors of reading success ✔✔Phonemic awareness and letter
recognition
comorbidity ✔✔the co-occurrence of two or more disorders in a single
individual
double deficit ✔✔deficit in phonological awareness and rapid automatized
naming
executive function ✔✔higher-order, complex cognitive processes, including
thinking, planning, and problem solving
Onset and Rime ✔✔In a syllable, the onset is the initial consonant or
consonants, and the rime is the vowel and any consonants that follow it
(e.g., the word sat, the onset is "s" and the rime is "at". In the word flip, the
onset is "fl" and the rime is "ip").
unequivocal ✔✔absolute; certain
IDEA ✔✔Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
,Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 ✔✔Civil rights given to
individuals with disabilities- focused on stopping discrimination in
education, employment, or any other community setting. Required
compliance for federal funds.
combining form ✔✔A word root with an added vowel that can be joined with
other words, roots, or suffixes to form a new word.
alphabetic principle ✔✔an understanding that letters and letter patterns
represent the sounds of spoken words.
convergence of evidence ✔✔all evidence points to the same conclusion
simple view of reading ✔✔Decoding X Language Comprehension =
Reading Comprehension
ellipsis ✔✔the omission of a word or phrase which is grammatically
necessary but can be deduced from the context
double negative ✔✔The use of two negative words such as never, no, not,
neither, none, no one, nobody, nothing, barely, hardly, or scarcely in the
same clause.
passive voice ✔✔The subject of the sentence receives the action.
, global inference ✔✔a logical conclusion derived from a reading as a whole
local inference ✔✔a conclusion drawn from a small section of textaccent
✔✔stress or emphasis on one syllable in a word or on one or more words
in a phrase or sentence. When we accent a syllable, our mouth is open
wider, our voice is louder and higher and the sound is held longer.
affix ✔✔a letter or a group of letters attached to the beginning or ending of
a word or word root that changes its meaning. Prefixes and suffixes are
affixes. Un- (not), re- (again), In-, im-, il-, ir- (not) are the most common.
automaticity ✔✔the ability to respond or reach without attention or
conscious effort. Automaticity in word recognition permits full energy to be
focused on comprehension.
base word ✔✔a word to which affixes are added. It can stand alone. Also
called free morpheme.
blend ✔✔2 or more adjacent consonants (consonant blend) or two or more
adjacent vowels (vowel blend) whose sounds flow smoothly together.
breve ✔✔a curved diacritical mark above a vowel in a sound picture or
phonic dictionary symbol notation that indicates a short vowel sound.