EDUC 280 || Graded A+.
Automatic sight vocabulary correct answers All the words that one can read immediately, on
sight, without having to use decoding strategies. Recognizing a word in less than 1/10 of a
second. Efficient reading depends on this.
Language Experience Approach (LEA) correct answers A method for teaching reading and
writing in which teachers engage children in discussion of an activity they have participated in,
invite children to dictate sentences about the activity and then lead the children in the reading
and re-reading of the text.
Explicit Instruction correct answers Teaching that includes specifying of learning outcomes,
modeling of processes, thinking aloud, and explaining. Deliberately and clearly stating what
students are to learn. Similar to direct instruction and part of Gradual Release of Responsibility.
Systematic Phonics Instruction correct answers Teaching of phonics by following a sequence of
skills considered necessary for efficient word decoding and spelling. Most sequences are
arranged from those skills considered easiest to those considered most difficult.
Core Reading Programs correct answers Commercial products promoted as having all that
teachers and students need for the students to achieve grade-level expectations through daily
instruction and practice in phonics and phonemic awareness, vocabulary, comprehension, and
fluency.
Word Wall correct answers A display on a classroom wall or large bulletin board of word cards
for children's reference when reading and writing, usually of undecodable and high-frequency
words grouped by initial letter.
Decoding correct answers The ability to look at an unknown word (NOT a sight word) and to
produce a pronunciation that is accurate (identifies the word as one that the reader knows from
h/h spoken vocabulary).
,High-Frequency Words correct answers Words that appear often in just about any text that is
longer than a few sentences. These are usually grammatical words/words that create sentence
structure and coherence. Ex. The Dolch word list
Spelling correct answers A system for associating word parts with individual letters or
combinations of letters. It is always systematic (NOT RANDOM) and often abstract. There are
sound-based and meaning-based reasons for the letter combinations used in a particular written
language.
Phonics correct answers The more or less regular linking of letters and combinations of letters
with sounds (phonemes) and combinations of sounds. Also called grapho-phonics.
Word-sort Activity correct answers A word-study activity in which children collect words by
making word cards for them, and then, after several days of collecting, arrange the cards
according to the words' spelling patterns.
Sight Words correct answers Words that can be read immediately on sight, automatically and
without sounding them out. Sight word vocabularies are personal and their composition varies
from one learner to another.
R-controlled vowels correct answers Vowels whose distinctiveness is diminished by their being
combined with /r/: /ar/, /er/, /or/
Decoding by Analogy correct answers Using a familiar phonogram to identify a new word.
Ex. Using "ham" to figure out "scram" or using "ex" and "fan" to figure our "Mexican"
Alliteration correct answers The use of the same sound at the beginning of two or more words.
Dictation correct answers A child's slowly speaking a message or telling a story as a teacher/adult
writes it down, usually for later reading by the adult and child.
, Rime correct answers The part of a syllable from its vowel through its end. Rhyming words have
identical rimes.
Ex. pan, pen, pie rimes are an, en, and ie.
Ex. can, fan, pan, plan, tan, and than all have the -an rime.
Onset correct answers The initial consonant, consonant blend, or consonant digraph of a syllable.
Ex. The onset in pan, plan, and than are p, pl, and th.
School Literacy Perspective correct answers A view of reading and writing as ends in
themselves, skills to be learned, rather than tools for genuine communication.
This view CONTRASTS with situated literacy perspective.
Situated Literacy Perspective correct answers A view of reading and writing as activities taking
place in the real world for the purpose of achieving real-life goals.
This view CONTRASTS with a school literacy perspective.
Concept of Written Word correct answers Knowledge that words are composed of combinations
of letters, that words in written text are bounded by the spaces between them, and that the sounds
within them are related to alphabet letters.
Concept of Word Boundaries correct answers Children's knowledge that words in written text are
bounded by the spaces between them.
An aspect of concept of written word.
Finger-Point Reading correct answers Putting a finger or pointer onto a discrete part of a text for
each spoken part of a reading, using left-to-right directionality, but not necessarily correctly
Automatic sight vocabulary correct answers All the words that one can read immediately, on
sight, without having to use decoding strategies. Recognizing a word in less than 1/10 of a
second. Efficient reading depends on this.
Language Experience Approach (LEA) correct answers A method for teaching reading and
writing in which teachers engage children in discussion of an activity they have participated in,
invite children to dictate sentences about the activity and then lead the children in the reading
and re-reading of the text.
Explicit Instruction correct answers Teaching that includes specifying of learning outcomes,
modeling of processes, thinking aloud, and explaining. Deliberately and clearly stating what
students are to learn. Similar to direct instruction and part of Gradual Release of Responsibility.
Systematic Phonics Instruction correct answers Teaching of phonics by following a sequence of
skills considered necessary for efficient word decoding and spelling. Most sequences are
arranged from those skills considered easiest to those considered most difficult.
Core Reading Programs correct answers Commercial products promoted as having all that
teachers and students need for the students to achieve grade-level expectations through daily
instruction and practice in phonics and phonemic awareness, vocabulary, comprehension, and
fluency.
Word Wall correct answers A display on a classroom wall or large bulletin board of word cards
for children's reference when reading and writing, usually of undecodable and high-frequency
words grouped by initial letter.
Decoding correct answers The ability to look at an unknown word (NOT a sight word) and to
produce a pronunciation that is accurate (identifies the word as one that the reader knows from
h/h spoken vocabulary).
,High-Frequency Words correct answers Words that appear often in just about any text that is
longer than a few sentences. These are usually grammatical words/words that create sentence
structure and coherence. Ex. The Dolch word list
Spelling correct answers A system for associating word parts with individual letters or
combinations of letters. It is always systematic (NOT RANDOM) and often abstract. There are
sound-based and meaning-based reasons for the letter combinations used in a particular written
language.
Phonics correct answers The more or less regular linking of letters and combinations of letters
with sounds (phonemes) and combinations of sounds. Also called grapho-phonics.
Word-sort Activity correct answers A word-study activity in which children collect words by
making word cards for them, and then, after several days of collecting, arrange the cards
according to the words' spelling patterns.
Sight Words correct answers Words that can be read immediately on sight, automatically and
without sounding them out. Sight word vocabularies are personal and their composition varies
from one learner to another.
R-controlled vowels correct answers Vowels whose distinctiveness is diminished by their being
combined with /r/: /ar/, /er/, /or/
Decoding by Analogy correct answers Using a familiar phonogram to identify a new word.
Ex. Using "ham" to figure out "scram" or using "ex" and "fan" to figure our "Mexican"
Alliteration correct answers The use of the same sound at the beginning of two or more words.
Dictation correct answers A child's slowly speaking a message or telling a story as a teacher/adult
writes it down, usually for later reading by the adult and child.
, Rime correct answers The part of a syllable from its vowel through its end. Rhyming words have
identical rimes.
Ex. pan, pen, pie rimes are an, en, and ie.
Ex. can, fan, pan, plan, tan, and than all have the -an rime.
Onset correct answers The initial consonant, consonant blend, or consonant digraph of a syllable.
Ex. The onset in pan, plan, and than are p, pl, and th.
School Literacy Perspective correct answers A view of reading and writing as ends in
themselves, skills to be learned, rather than tools for genuine communication.
This view CONTRASTS with situated literacy perspective.
Situated Literacy Perspective correct answers A view of reading and writing as activities taking
place in the real world for the purpose of achieving real-life goals.
This view CONTRASTS with a school literacy perspective.
Concept of Written Word correct answers Knowledge that words are composed of combinations
of letters, that words in written text are bounded by the spaces between them, and that the sounds
within them are related to alphabet letters.
Concept of Word Boundaries correct answers Children's knowledge that words in written text are
bounded by the spaces between them.
An aspect of concept of written word.
Finger-Point Reading correct answers Putting a finger or pointer onto a discrete part of a text for
each spoken part of a reading, using left-to-right directionality, but not necessarily correctly
