ELA

Question 1

Basal Reader

Answer 1

Textbooks used to teach reading and associated skills to schoolchildren

Question 2

Close reading

Answer 2

A skill that requires students to determine purpose and notice features and language used by the author so that they can think thoughtfully and methodically about the details in the text and why they were used

Question 3

Closed syllables

Answer 3

A syllable that ends with a consonant sound, either singular or blend

Question 4

Cluttering speech

Answer 4

A speech pattern that is perceived as being too fast, too irregular or jerky and is accompanied by: excessive repetition of whole words or phrases

Question 5

Compound Word

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A union of two or more words, either with or without hyphen

Question 6

Consonant patterns

Answer 6

When consonants work together to represent one sound

Question 7

Context clues

Answer 7

Hints that help readers understand the meaning of unfamiliar words in a sentence, paragraph or passage

Question 8

Cued speech

Answer 8

Method of communication in which the mouth movements of speech are combined with a system of hand movements to facilitate understanding and use by people who are deaf or hard of hearing

Question 9

CVC Word

Answer 9

Three letter words that start and end with a consonant

Question 10

Decoding skills

Answer 10

The ability to break down words into sounds and blend them together to identify written words

Question 11

Deletion

Answer 11

Omission of one or more sounds in a word

Question 12

Derivational suffixes

Answer 12

Applies to words of one syntactic category and changes them to another

Question 13

Devoicing

Answer 13

Make a vowel or voiced consonant voiceless

Question 14

Digraph

Answer 14

Combination of two letters representing one sound

Question 15

Dysfluency

Answer 15

The disruption or interruption of the ongoing flow of speech

Question 16

Echo reading

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Reading strategy where a teacher or adult reads a text aloud and then students repeat the reading back

Question 17

Filler word

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A word, sounds or phrase that doesn’t add meaning to a sentence or conversations but is used to fill space while someone is speaking

Question 18

Free Morpheme

Answer 18

A word part that can stand alone as a word

Question 19

High-frequency word

Answer 19

Most common words in written and spoken language

Question 20

Inference/Inferential

Answer 20

Conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning

Question 21

Comprehension/question

Answer 21

Understanding

Question 22

Mean length of utterance

Answer 22

The average number of morpheme per utterance

Question 23

Morphosyntactic proficiency

Answer 23

The ability to understand how words are formed and how they function in sentences

Question 24

Nonsense word fluency

Answer 24

A test that measures a student’s ability to blend letter sounds and understand letter-sound correspondences

Question 25

Phonemic awareness

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The ability to notice, think about and work with individual sounds

Question 26

Phonics

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Matching the sounds of spoken English with individual letters or groups of letters

Question 27

Phonological loop

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The speech- and sound-related component of working memory and holds verbal and auditory information

Question 28

Phrase speech intelligibility

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The percentage of words that a listener can understand from a speaker

Question 29

Plosive

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Denoting a consonant that is produced by stopping the airflow using the lips, teeth, or palate

Question 30

Pre-primer & Primer (Dolch) Words

Answer 30

List of 40 fundamental words that are essential building blocks for early reading fluency

Question 31

Run on sentences

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Occurs when two or more independent clauses are joined together without proper punctuation or conjunctions

Question 32

Sentence starter

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A word or phrase that introduces the rest of the sentence

Question 33

Sight word

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Common, frequently used words and foundational words that a child can use to build vocab

Question 34

Sound blending

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Combining sounds to form words

Question 35

Sound omission

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Speech articulation disorder that occurs when a person leaves out certain sounds while speaking

Question 36

Sound out

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Identify a word based on the sounds that one hears

Question 37

Spelling

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Process of writing or naming letter of a word

Question 38

Syllable strings

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A group of segments that are organized around a vowel or vowel-like element

Question 39

Tap out sounds

Answer 39

Used to decode words

Question 40

Verbal reasoning

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Understanding and reasoning using concepts framed in words

Question 41

Visual tracking

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The ability to move your eyes quickly and accurately to follow a moving object

Question 42

Visual/Verbal Cues

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Visual or Verbal clues used to help decode meaning

Question 43

Voiced

Answer 43

Speech sounds that are produced when the vocal cords vibrate

Question 44

Voiceless

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Sounds made by air passing through the mouth without the vocal cords vibrating

Question 45

Vowel digraph

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Combination of two vowel letters that create a single vowel sound or diphthong

Question 46

Vowel distortion

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When vowels are produced incorrectly

Question 47

Vowel team

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Combination of letters that represent a single vowel sound

Question 48

Word class

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Category of words of similar form or function, part of speech

Question 49

Word families

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Groups of words that have a common feature or pattern

Question 50

Word walls

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Collection of words that are displayed in large visible letters on a wall

Question 51

Word webs

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Tool used to expand student's knowledge of the focus word

Question 52

Words in isolation

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The ability to decode or learn a word without the benefit of any context

Question 53

Writing prompt

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Direction to write about a particular topic