Alphabetic principle Correct Answer: the concept that letters and letter
combinations represent individual phonemes in written words
Aided retelling Correct Answer: when telling a story the student is prompted to
tell more of the story
Analogies Correct Answer: students use their knowledge of rhyming words to
deduce the pronunciation of spelling an unfamiliar word
Automaticity Correct Answer: reading without conscious effort or attention to
decoding
Base word Correct Answer: a unit of meaning that can stand alone as a whole
word (free morpheme)
Blending Correct Answer: combining sounds rapidly, to accurately represent the
word
Closed syllable Correct Answer: vowels closed in, vowels make the short sound
(skittles, twix)
Cloze procedure Correct Answer: students apply deleted words in a passage take
from a text they've read
Consonant Correct Answer: speech sound where the air flow is partially
obstructed by tongue, teeth, or lips
Consonant blend Correct Answer: combined sounds of two or three consonants
(bl in block, str in string)
Conventions of print Correct Answer: ex. Read left to right, top to bottom, words
are made of letters, space between words
, Consonant digraph Correct Answer: two consecutive consonants that represent
one phoneme, or sound (ch, sh)
Critical comprehension Correct Answer: readers analyze symbolic meanings,
distinguish fact from opinion, draw conclusions
Cross checking Correct Answer: bringing together sources of information by
checking one kind of information against another
Context cues Correct Answer: "yesterday I read the book" so the reader uses
content cues to know how to pronounce "read"
Cueing system Correct Answer: any of the various sources of information that
may aid identification of a word
Decodable words Correct Answer: words containing phonic elements that were
previously taught
Decoding Correct Answer: translate a word from print to speech using letter-
sound correspondences
Digraph Correct Answer: two consecutive letters whose phonetic value is a single
sound (ch, ng)
Dipthong Correct Answer: a vowel that feels like it has two parts (ow, oy, oi)
Dissonance Correct Answer: conflict, difference, disagreement
Expository text Correct Answer: text that reports factual information
Fables Correct Answer: brief narratives designed to teach a moral
Fantasies Correct Answer: imaginative stories that have new worlds, but are
based in reality so that readers believe they exist
Folklore Correct Answer: stories that began hundreds of years ago and were
passed down generation to generation
Folktales Correct Answer: a story that often provides a moral lesson, originally
orally
Five components of reading Correct Answer: phonemic awareness, phonics,
fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension
combinations represent individual phonemes in written words
Aided retelling Correct Answer: when telling a story the student is prompted to
tell more of the story
Analogies Correct Answer: students use their knowledge of rhyming words to
deduce the pronunciation of spelling an unfamiliar word
Automaticity Correct Answer: reading without conscious effort or attention to
decoding
Base word Correct Answer: a unit of meaning that can stand alone as a whole
word (free morpheme)
Blending Correct Answer: combining sounds rapidly, to accurately represent the
word
Closed syllable Correct Answer: vowels closed in, vowels make the short sound
(skittles, twix)
Cloze procedure Correct Answer: students apply deleted words in a passage take
from a text they've read
Consonant Correct Answer: speech sound where the air flow is partially
obstructed by tongue, teeth, or lips
Consonant blend Correct Answer: combined sounds of two or three consonants
(bl in block, str in string)
Conventions of print Correct Answer: ex. Read left to right, top to bottom, words
are made of letters, space between words
, Consonant digraph Correct Answer: two consecutive consonants that represent
one phoneme, or sound (ch, sh)
Critical comprehension Correct Answer: readers analyze symbolic meanings,
distinguish fact from opinion, draw conclusions
Cross checking Correct Answer: bringing together sources of information by
checking one kind of information against another
Context cues Correct Answer: "yesterday I read the book" so the reader uses
content cues to know how to pronounce "read"
Cueing system Correct Answer: any of the various sources of information that
may aid identification of a word
Decodable words Correct Answer: words containing phonic elements that were
previously taught
Decoding Correct Answer: translate a word from print to speech using letter-
sound correspondences
Digraph Correct Answer: two consecutive letters whose phonetic value is a single
sound (ch, ng)
Dipthong Correct Answer: a vowel that feels like it has two parts (ow, oy, oi)
Dissonance Correct Answer: conflict, difference, disagreement
Expository text Correct Answer: text that reports factual information
Fables Correct Answer: brief narratives designed to teach a moral
Fantasies Correct Answer: imaginative stories that have new worlds, but are
based in reality so that readers believe they exist
Folklore Correct Answer: stories that began hundreds of years ago and were
passed down generation to generation
Folktales Correct Answer: a story that often provides a moral lesson, originally
orally
Five components of reading Correct Answer: phonemic awareness, phonics,
fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension
