Academic Skills

Question 1

In which ways are academic skills related to life success?

Answer 1

educational attainment, performance at work, income, physical and mental health, longevity

Question 2

Advanced reading skills in ______ extend through elementary, middle, and high school.

Answer 2

Advanced reading skills in KINDERGARTEN extend through elementary, middle, and high school.

Question 3

________ reading skill is related to subsequently attending college.

Answer 3

THIRD-GRADE reading skill is related to subsequently attending college.

Question 4

T/F Reading and formal mathematics are universal skills

Answer 4

False; they aren’t universal skills

Question 5

What enabled the development of the alphabet?

Answer 5

Semantic languages had strong rules for syllabus, leading to alphabet development

Question 6

What is the foundation of reading and writing?

Answer 6

Oral language

Question 7

What is the simple rule of reading?

Answer 7

Reading comprehension depends on the interaction of decoding skill and comprehension of oral language.

Question 8

What are four pre-reading skills?

Answer 8

Letter names, letter sounds, rhyming, and knowledge about the world

Question 9

How many phonemes are in the english language? How many letters?

Answer 9

44 phonemes coordinating with 26 letters

Question 10

What are the two ways to identify words while reading?

Answer 10

Phonological recoding and visually based retrieval

Question 11

How does phonological recording work?

Answer 11

letters code sounds, sounds are identified, the blended into words

Question 12

What is visually-based retrieval?

Answer 12

Accessing meaning directly from the visual word form, without activating the sounds of the word

Question 13

In addition to decoding text, reading requires building a _____ ______.

Answer 13

In addition to decoding text, reading requires building a SITUATIONAL MODEL.

Question 14

What is a situation model?

Answer 14

A representation of the situation or idea being depicted in text that is continuously updated

Question 15

T/F Understanding text requires background knowledge

Answer 15

True

Question 16

Why is writing hard?

Answer 16

It requires low-level goals and high-level goals

Question 17

What are low-level goals?

Answer 17

forming letters, spelling words, using correct capitalization and punctuation

Question 18

What are high-level goals?

Answer 18

making arguments comprehensible without context, intonations, and gestures

Question 19

What is a flexible-focus?

Answer 19

When children write a passage where the subject varies (ex. coloring to cats to neighbors)

Question 20

What is fixed topic?

Answer 20

When an entire passafe focuses on one subject (ex. my sister shares… and she plays… and she likes, etc.)

Question 21

Flexible focus and fixed-topic writing decreases around ____ grade

Answer 21

Flexible focus writing decreases around 5TH grade

Question 22

What is the foundation of numerical understanding?

Answer 22

a conception of number

Question 23

________ builds out of concrete mathematic foundations.

Answer 23

ARITHMETIC builds out of concrete mathematic foundations.

Question 24

Children begin arithmetic by conducting operation using _____ ______. They progress to ____ ______.

Answer 24

Children begin arithmetic by conducting operation using CONCRETE REPRESENTATIONS (like drawings or marbles). They progress to SYMBOLIC OPERATIONS.

Question 25

What two things do early numeracy predict?

Answer 25

high school math and college attendance

Question 26

What are the five strategies children use to count?

Answer 26

count from 1, shortcut sum, min, count from first, and retrieval

Question 27

What is mathematics anxiety? What can it be impacted by?

Answer 27

Mathematics anxiety is a negative emotional state that leads to fear and avoidance of math. Parental math anxiety passes to children

Question 28

Adding with the “count by 1” method.

Answer 28

Hold up one of the values on one hand, hold up the other value on the other hand, then count them all

Question 29

Adding with “shortcut sum” technique

Answer 29

Count while putting up fingers

Question 30

Adding with “min” technique

Answer 30

Start counting from the end of the larger value(ex. if adding 2 and 4, start counting from 4 or 5)

Question 31

Adding with “count from first” technique

Answer 31

Start counting from the end of the smaller value (ex. if adding 2 and 4, start counting from 2 or 3)

Question 32

Adding with “retrieval”

Answer 32

Say an answer and explain by saying “I just knew it”