Language Arts and Reading

Question 1

What are the 5 components of reading?

Answer 1

1. Phonemic Awareness
2. Phonics
3. Fluency
4. Vocabulary
5. Comprehension

Question 2

What is phonemic awareness?

Answer 2

The ability to hear, identify and manipulate individual sounds of spoken language.

Question 3

What is Phonics?

Answer 3

knowledge of the relationship between written letters and the sounds of spoken language.

Question 4

What are the phases of word recognition?

Answer 4

1. Pre-Alphabetic
2. Partial Alphabetic
3. Full Alphabetic
4. Graphophonemic
5. Morphemic

Question 5

What is Pre-alphabetic?

Answer 5

Preschool Emergent Literacy

Uses visual clues in the printed word to identify the word or guess from context

Question 6

What is Partial Alphabetic?

Answer 6

Can now recognize some words. Recognizes relationship between letters and sounds although they may focus on specific easily idntifiable parts of the word.

Question 7

What is Full Alphabetic?

Answer 7

Can decode unfamiliar words and store fully analyzed sight words in memory. They can think about sounds for each letter and blend them together to arrive at the pronuciation.

Question 8

What is Graphophonemic?

Answer 8

This is often referred to as phonics. It is the sound relationship between the symbol and the sounds of a spoken language.

Question 9

What is Morphemic?

Answer 9

It is the smallest meaninful unit in a language.

Example: Triangle Tri and Angle = 2 morphemes

Question 10

What are 3 critical think stragies for reading comprehension?

Answer 10

• Making connections
• Making predictions
• Questioning

Question 11

What are 3 types of connections to text that aid reading comprehension?

Answer 11

• Text to Self
• Text to Text
• Text to World

Question 12

What are 4 types of questions that help students make meaning of text?

Answer 12

1. Right There
2. Think and Search
3. Reader and Author
4. On My Own
5. Summarizing

Question 13

What are “Right There” questions?

Answer 13

Answer is in the text. (text explicit)

Question 14

What are “Think & Search” questions?

Answer 14

Open ended without a set of answers. (text implicit)

Question 15

What are “Reader & Author” questions?

Answer 15

Reader can combine his exp with what the text states. (text implicit or exp based)

Question 16

What are “On My Own” questions?

Answer 16

The reader generates an answer from prior knowledge which may not need to read the text but the text could shape his answer differently. ( text implicity or explicit)

Question 17

What are the components of reading fluency?

Answer 17

• Accuracy
• Automaticity
• Rate
• Prosody

Question 18

What is automaticity?

Answer 18

Instantly recognize a large group of words.

Question 19

What is Prosody?

Answer 19

Appropriate rhythm, intonation and expression.

Question 20

Name some instructional methods for fluency?

Answer 20

• repetitive or repeated reading
• oarl reading
• echo reading
• choral reading
• time reading
• readers theatre
• audiobooks
• poetry readings
• independent
• paired reading

Question 21

Name some essential skills that aid reading comprehension?

Answer 21

• Main idea
• Supporting details
• authors purpose
• fact and opinion
• point of view
• inference
• visulaize
• conclusion

Question 22

Name some instructional methods fro comprehension?

Answer 22

• activiating prior knowledge
• summarizing
• self monitoring (being aware of their thinking as they read)
• questioning
• graphic and semantic organizers
• think alouds (talk to the text) - teacher models her thoughts aloud while reading
• recognize story structure

Question 23

What is concepts of print?

Answer 23

• Print conveys meaning
• directionality
• concept of a word
• phonemic awareness
• literacy language (author, title & so on)

Question 24

Name some literary genres

Answer 24

• poetry
• folklore
• fantasy
• science fiction
• realistic fiction
• historical fiction
• biography
• non fiction

Question 25

Name some literary elements

Answer 25

• Setting
• Characters
• Plot
• Theme
• Style

Question 26

What are some literary devices?

Answer 26

• Alliteration
• Hyperbole
• Onomatopoeia
• Analogy
• Irony
• Personification
• Climax
• Metaphor
• Simile

Question 27

What is alliteration?

Answer 27

repetion of an inital consanent sound

“a peck of pickled peppers”

Question 28

What is hyperbole?

Answer 28

exageration is used for emphasis or effect

“I could eat a million of these”

Question 29

What is onomatopoeia?

Answer 29

formation of words that imitate sounds

“hiss or buzz”

Question 30

What is personification?

Answer 30

Giving human qualities to a thing

Question 31

What is a metaphor?

Answer 31

implied comparison is made between 2 unlike things that actually have something in common

Question 32

What is similie?

Answer 32

uses like or as

Question 33

What are the stages of writing?

Answer 33

• Pre writing: brainstorming
• Drafting: ideas to paper
• Revising: refining draft, focus is on meaning
• Editing: prrofread
• Publishing

Question 34

Name some modes of writing?

Answer 34

• Narrative writing
• Persuasive writing
• Descriptive writing
• Expository writing
• Informative writing
• Creative writing

Question 35

What is a norm-referenced test?

Answer 35

compare a persons score against the scores of a group of people who have taken the same test.

Question 36

What is criterion reference test?

Answer 36

intended to measure how well a person has learned a specific body of knowledge

Question 37

What is diagnostic assessment?

Answer 37

standardized tests - aim to determine a students strength and weakness