Competency 002/003

Question 0

Phonological Awareness

Answer 0

Ability to focus on the sounds of speech as distinct from its meaning; on rhythm and that certain words rhyme, and on the separate sounds.
Ex. Children play with language by repeating syllables

Question 1

Phonemic Awareness

Answer 1

Being able to manipulate, recognize, and hear phonemes or sounds.

Question 2

Only addresses phonemes and sounds.

Answer 2

Phonemic Awareness

Question 3

Elements of Alphabetic Principle

Answer 3

Letter names, Graphophonemic knowledge, and the relationship of the letters in printed words to spoken language.

Question 4

Graphophonemic Knowledge

Answer 4

Knowing the sounds that letters represent, sometimes called phonics.

Question 5

Metacognitive Strategies

Answer 5

Thinking about their own thinking.

Question 6

Literacy Acquisition Stage

Answer 6

Pre Reading
Transitional
Conventional

Question 7

Transitional Stage

Answer 7

Read and Write with support and assistance.

Question 8

The Alphabetic Principle

Answer 8

Words are composed of letters that represent sounds. Using systematic relationships between letters and phonemes to retrieve pronunciation.

Question 9

Phonics

Answer 9

A method of teaching reading and spelling based upon the phonetic interpretation of ordinary spelling.

Question 11

Literacy Development Stages

Answer 11

Emergent (Pre-Reading)
Transitional
Conventional

Question 12

Emergent Literacy Stage

Answer 12

Reading and writing skills are limited.

Question 12

Transitional Literacy Stage

Answer 12

Reading and writing skills are improving, but not yet conventional.

Question 13

Conventional Literacy Stage

Answer 13

Students are able to read fluently and write to communicate their ideas.

Question 14

Invented/Inventive Spelling

Answer 14

Students write words how they sound.

Question 15

Multisensory Techniques that allow students to use their different senses to learn phonemic and alphabetic skills.

Answer 15

Songs, Chants, Videos, Manipulatives, Worksheets, and Food.

Question 16

Components of Literacy

Answer 16

Fluency and Word Identification

Question 17

Third Grade Expectancy

Answer 17

Should know how to fluently read multisyllabic words, both in context and independent of it. Read the words in a sentence or text, and can decode words individually.

Question 18

Dipthong

Answer 18

A sound formed by the combination of two vowels in a single syllable (coin, loud, side.)

Question 19

Components of Fluency

Answer 19

Rate, Accuracy, Appropriate Phrasing, and Intonation

Question 20

Intonation

Answer 20

Expression when Reading

Question 21

Strategies to help students improve their oral reading fluency.

Answer 21

Repeated Reading, Choral Reading, and Reader’s Theater.

Question 22

Help students improve their silent reading fluency.

Answer 22

DEAR and SSR

Question 23

Strategy to help students identify and decode words faster, and also increase their fluency.

Answer 23

Reader’s theater, Choral Reading, Guided Reading, and Repeated Reading.

Question 24

How to evaluate students’ fluency.

Answer 24

Informal, Formal, Formative, and Summative Assessments.

Question 25

Example of Formative Assessments

Answer 25

Informal Reading Inventories

Question 26

Informal Reading Inventories

Answer 26

Takes a quick “inventory” of each student’s reading fluency and comprehension.

Question 27

Prosody

Answer 27

Expressiveness

Question 28

Allows teachers to evaluate students’ phonemic awareness, phonics knowledge (graphophonemic knowledge), reading fluency, accuracy, and comprehension, as well as listening skills.

Answer 28

Texas Primary Reading Inventory (TPRI)

Question 29

TPRI

Answer 29

Evaluates students’ phonemic awareness, phonics knowledge (graphophonemic knowledge), reading fluency, accuracy, and comprehension, as well as listening skills.

Question 30

Tejas LEE Assessment

Answer 30

Evaluates students’ reading and comprehension skills in Spanish.

Question 31

Structural Analysis

Answer 31

Students look for the root or base word, and for prefixes or suffixes to help them figure out the meaning.

Question 32

Strategies in Competency 002

Answer 32

Repeated Reading, DEAR and SSR