ELED 3100 Final Exam Questions with Correct Answers Latest Update 2025-2026
What does RTI stand for? - Answers Response to Intervention
What is the purpose of RTI? - Answers To help the students who are "at risk"
RTI should support the instruction for what percentages of students? - Answers 80% of
students at "proficient" level
Describe Tier 1 - Answers What the teacher can do in the classroom to differentiate the
instruction for the at risk students. "universal"- all students receive.
Describe Tier 2 - Answers When other experts/teachers/parents form a committee and to
decide what is the best way to bring the student back up to the level they are supposed to be at.
Students who need more support in addition to the core curriculum.
Describe Tier 3 - Answers This is when another factor like a learning disability is perceived as
the cause for the student falling behind. This is when the students is put into special education.
Students who need individualized interventions.
What is the purpose of a basal series? - Answers Support to instruction of the teacher.
What does ZPD stand for? - Answers Zone of Proximal Development
Describe the ZPD - Answers This is the gap of achievement between what the student can learn
on their own and what they can learn with help from the teacher.
What 3 words best describe fluency? - Answers automatic, procity, accuracy
Fluency is the bridge between...? - Answers decoding and comprehension
What strategies best support fluency improvement? - Answers word wall, readers theater, ...
Name an activity-commonly used for 'fluency practice', that does not support improved reading?
- Answers popcorn reading and round robin reading
What is a consonant blend (also called consonant clusters)? - Answers 2 consonants together
Example: Slide
What is a consonant digraph? - Answers 2 consonants together that make 1 sound
Example: Fish
What is a diphthong? - Answers A gliding vowel
Example: Paid (ai, ou, ea, au)
What are decodable words? - Answers Words that can be sounded out phonetically
, What is onset? - Answers The onset is the part of the word before the vowel; not all words have
onsets.
Example: H in Hop
What is rime? - Answers The rime is the part of the word including the vowel and what follows it.
Example: op in Hop
What is morphemic analysis? - Answers the examination of a word in order to locate and derive
the meanings of the morphemes. Breaking the word apart by prefix/suffix & root word.
What are long vowels? - Answers When a vowel sounds like its name
What is phonological awareness? - Answers understanding of how language chunks sound
What are the 5 levels of phonological awareness? - Answers Word, rhyme, syllable, onset/rime,
phoneme
What is the level "word" of phonological awareness? - Answers knowing that letters make words
What is the level "rhyme" of phonological awareness? - Answers Example: cat and bat
What is the level "syllable" of phonological awareness? - Answers understanding how words are
broken up
What is the level "onset/rime" of phonological awareness? - Answers The onset is the part of the
word before the vowel; not all words have onsets. The rime is the part of the word including the
vowel and what follows it.
What is the level "phoneme" of phonological awareness? - Answers understanding how sounds
make up a word
Describe blending - Answers putting letters together to make sounds
Describe segmenting - Answers hearing the parts in a word
Describe deletion (or manipulation) - Answers being able to remove a phoneme in a word and
replacing it with another phoneme
What is the single most distinguishing feature about phonemic awareness? - Answers being
able to identify the individual sounds in words
What are phonemes? - Answers individual sounds
Say the short [a] sound - Answers [a] as in cat
Say the long [a] sound - Answers [a] as in lake
What does RTI stand for? - Answers Response to Intervention
What is the purpose of RTI? - Answers To help the students who are "at risk"
RTI should support the instruction for what percentages of students? - Answers 80% of
students at "proficient" level
Describe Tier 1 - Answers What the teacher can do in the classroom to differentiate the
instruction for the at risk students. "universal"- all students receive.
Describe Tier 2 - Answers When other experts/teachers/parents form a committee and to
decide what is the best way to bring the student back up to the level they are supposed to be at.
Students who need more support in addition to the core curriculum.
Describe Tier 3 - Answers This is when another factor like a learning disability is perceived as
the cause for the student falling behind. This is when the students is put into special education.
Students who need individualized interventions.
What is the purpose of a basal series? - Answers Support to instruction of the teacher.
What does ZPD stand for? - Answers Zone of Proximal Development
Describe the ZPD - Answers This is the gap of achievement between what the student can learn
on their own and what they can learn with help from the teacher.
What 3 words best describe fluency? - Answers automatic, procity, accuracy
Fluency is the bridge between...? - Answers decoding and comprehension
What strategies best support fluency improvement? - Answers word wall, readers theater, ...
Name an activity-commonly used for 'fluency practice', that does not support improved reading?
- Answers popcorn reading and round robin reading
What is a consonant blend (also called consonant clusters)? - Answers 2 consonants together
Example: Slide
What is a consonant digraph? - Answers 2 consonants together that make 1 sound
Example: Fish
What is a diphthong? - Answers A gliding vowel
Example: Paid (ai, ou, ea, au)
What are decodable words? - Answers Words that can be sounded out phonetically
, What is onset? - Answers The onset is the part of the word before the vowel; not all words have
onsets.
Example: H in Hop
What is rime? - Answers The rime is the part of the word including the vowel and what follows it.
Example: op in Hop
What is morphemic analysis? - Answers the examination of a word in order to locate and derive
the meanings of the morphemes. Breaking the word apart by prefix/suffix & root word.
What are long vowels? - Answers When a vowel sounds like its name
What is phonological awareness? - Answers understanding of how language chunks sound
What are the 5 levels of phonological awareness? - Answers Word, rhyme, syllable, onset/rime,
phoneme
What is the level "word" of phonological awareness? - Answers knowing that letters make words
What is the level "rhyme" of phonological awareness? - Answers Example: cat and bat
What is the level "syllable" of phonological awareness? - Answers understanding how words are
broken up
What is the level "onset/rime" of phonological awareness? - Answers The onset is the part of the
word before the vowel; not all words have onsets. The rime is the part of the word including the
vowel and what follows it.
What is the level "phoneme" of phonological awareness? - Answers understanding how sounds
make up a word
Describe blending - Answers putting letters together to make sounds
Describe segmenting - Answers hearing the parts in a word
Describe deletion (or manipulation) - Answers being able to remove a phoneme in a word and
replacing it with another phoneme
What is the single most distinguishing feature about phonemic awareness? - Answers being
able to identify the individual sounds in words
What are phonemes? - Answers individual sounds
Say the short [a] sound - Answers [a] as in cat
Say the long [a] sound - Answers [a] as in lake
