composed of smaller units, such as spoken words and syllables
Phonemic Awareness Correct Answer: Specific type of phonological awareness
involving the ability to distinguish the separate phonemes in a spoken word
Explicit Strategies Correct Answer: Direct students attention, providing guidance
and structured framework building from part to whole. Involves teaching blending
and building.
Implicit Strategies Correct Answer: Building from whole to part. Looking for
common phonemes in a set of words. Identify words by beginning and ending
letters as well as looking at context cues
Alliteration Correct Answer: Repetition of the same sounds in the beginning of
words
Assonance Correct Answer: Repetition of vowel sounds to create internal rhyming
within phrases or sentences. Ex: "on a prOUd rOUnd clOUd in whIte hIgh nIGht.
Onset-rime-whole word Correct Answer: Splitting syllables and oral blending
Segmenting Correct Answer: Analyzing words into syllable and sounds
Substitutions/deletions Correct Answer: Manipulating sounds in words
Alphabetic Principle Correct Answer: The recognition that phonemes are
represented by letters and letter pairs
, Consonant Diagraph Correct Answer: 2 consonants form together to make a
single sound
Consonant Blend Correct Answer: 2/3 consonants make distinct sounds
Semantic Cues Correct Answer: The use of additional cues/context clues
Syntactic Cues Correct Answer: Grammatical cues to help interpret and
understand a text. Using sentence clues to determine meaning
CVC Correct Answer: Consonant-vowel-consonant. Dad, lad, mom, bob, bib, did
CVCC Correct Answer: Consonant-vowel-consonant-consonant. Fast, rest, tent,
bump, belt, lamp.
CVCe Correct Answer: Consonant-vowel-consonant-silent e. Face, fake, sake, race,
pace
Literal Comprehension Correct Answer: Comprehension that involves what the
author is actually saying. Some of this information is in the form of recognizing
and recalling facts, identifying the main idea, supporting details, categorizing,
outlining, and summarizing. The reader is also locating information, using context
clues to supply meaning, following specific directions, following a sequence,
identifying stated conclusion, and identifying explicitly stated relationships and
organizational patterns.
Inferential Comprehension Correct Answer: Comprehension that deals with what
the author means by what is said. The reader must simply read between the lines
and make inferences about things not directly stated.
Evaluative Comprehension Correct Answer: Comprehension where readers
analyze and make judgments about what they read. At this level, readers use
evidence from the text to reach conclusions and make generalizations about the
text and its wider implications by
drawing a conclusion that is validated by the
evidence in the selection.
C. determining whether the information used by the author to support a
conclusion is accurate and/or credible.