1st level of Phonemic awareness Correct Answer: Hearing rhymes and alliteration.
2nd level of Phonemic Awareness Correct Answer: Compare and contrast sounds
of words from rhyme and alliteration.
3rd level of Phonemic Awareness Correct Answer: Ability to blend and split
syllables.
Automaticity Correct Answer: fluent processing of information that requires little
effort or attention, as sign-word recognition.
Background Knowledge Correct Answer: The knoweldge and understandings of
the world that sutdents have acquired through their everyday experiences.
Choral Reading Correct Answer: Two or more individuals reading aloud from the
same text - helps with oral reading fluency
Closed Syllable Correct Answer: Syllable which ends in one of more consonants.
Consonant Blend Correct Answer: In a syllable, a sequence of two or more
distinguishable consonant sounds before or after a vowel sound. (Examples: cl, bl,
st, or, tr)
Consonant Digraph Correct Answer: Two consonants that represent one speech
sound. (Examples: ch, sh, th)
Constructing Meaning Correct Answer: A process of making sense of text, by
connecting one's own knowledge with the print readers "build" an understanding
of what the text is about.
Context Cues Correct Answer: Information from the surrounding text that helps
identify or gives meaning ot a specific word or phrase, ex. "yesterday I read the
book." The words surrounding "read" helps us know how to pronounce it.
, Conventions of Print Correct Answer: The understandings an individual has about
the rules or accepted practices that govern the use of print, and the use of written
language. Ex. reading left to right, top to bottom, words are made of letters, use
of spaces between words, upper case letters, spelling patterns, etc.
Conventional Spelling Correct Answer: Spelling that is in the standard or correct
form for written documents.
Cueing System Correct Answer: Any of the various sources of information that
may aid identification of a word such as: graphophonics, semantic and syntactic
information.
Cultural Load Correct Answer: Relationship between language and culture. Can
help or hinder learning.
Cumulative/Pattern Story Correct Answer: A story that has many elements or
language patterns repeated until the climax, a predictable text.
CvCe Correct Answer: Vowels are long or say their name. (Examples, late, gate,
side)
Decoding Correct Answer: Analyzing text in order to identify and undertand
individual words. Figuring out the written code.
Diphthong Correct Answer: A vowel sound produced when the tongue moves or
glides from one vowel sound toward another vowel or semivowel sound in the
same syllable. Examples: coin, house)
Echo Reading Correct Answer: Reading of a text where an adult or experienced
reader reads a line of text, and the student repeats the line. Good technique for
Emergent and Early Readers to build fluency and expression.
Emergent Reader Correct Answer: A reader who is developing an association of
print with meaning. The early stages of learning ot read.
Fluency Correct Answer: The clear, easy, written or spoken expression of ideas.
Can be described as having two parts, automaticity and accuracy.
Grammar Conventions Correct Answer: The rules, or accepted practices, that
govern the use of grammar in written or spoken language.
Grapheme Correct Answer: A letter
2nd level of Phonemic Awareness Correct Answer: Compare and contrast sounds
of words from rhyme and alliteration.
3rd level of Phonemic Awareness Correct Answer: Ability to blend and split
syllables.
Automaticity Correct Answer: fluent processing of information that requires little
effort or attention, as sign-word recognition.
Background Knowledge Correct Answer: The knoweldge and understandings of
the world that sutdents have acquired through their everyday experiences.
Choral Reading Correct Answer: Two or more individuals reading aloud from the
same text - helps with oral reading fluency
Closed Syllable Correct Answer: Syllable which ends in one of more consonants.
Consonant Blend Correct Answer: In a syllable, a sequence of two or more
distinguishable consonant sounds before or after a vowel sound. (Examples: cl, bl,
st, or, tr)
Consonant Digraph Correct Answer: Two consonants that represent one speech
sound. (Examples: ch, sh, th)
Constructing Meaning Correct Answer: A process of making sense of text, by
connecting one's own knowledge with the print readers "build" an understanding
of what the text is about.
Context Cues Correct Answer: Information from the surrounding text that helps
identify or gives meaning ot a specific word or phrase, ex. "yesterday I read the
book." The words surrounding "read" helps us know how to pronounce it.
, Conventions of Print Correct Answer: The understandings an individual has about
the rules or accepted practices that govern the use of print, and the use of written
language. Ex. reading left to right, top to bottom, words are made of letters, use
of spaces between words, upper case letters, spelling patterns, etc.
Conventional Spelling Correct Answer: Spelling that is in the standard or correct
form for written documents.
Cueing System Correct Answer: Any of the various sources of information that
may aid identification of a word such as: graphophonics, semantic and syntactic
information.
Cultural Load Correct Answer: Relationship between language and culture. Can
help or hinder learning.
Cumulative/Pattern Story Correct Answer: A story that has many elements or
language patterns repeated until the climax, a predictable text.
CvCe Correct Answer: Vowels are long or say their name. (Examples, late, gate,
side)
Decoding Correct Answer: Analyzing text in order to identify and undertand
individual words. Figuring out the written code.
Diphthong Correct Answer: A vowel sound produced when the tongue moves or
glides from one vowel sound toward another vowel or semivowel sound in the
same syllable. Examples: coin, house)
Echo Reading Correct Answer: Reading of a text where an adult or experienced
reader reads a line of text, and the student repeats the line. Good technique for
Emergent and Early Readers to build fluency and expression.
Emergent Reader Correct Answer: A reader who is developing an association of
print with meaning. The early stages of learning ot read.
Fluency Correct Answer: The clear, easy, written or spoken expression of ideas.
Can be described as having two parts, automaticity and accuracy.
Grammar Conventions Correct Answer: The rules, or accepted practices, that
govern the use of grammar in written or spoken language.
Grapheme Correct Answer: A letter
