Literacy Competency 8

Question 1

What is Early Reading Instruction?

Answer 1

It’s the beginning stage of reading known as emergent literacy. Occurs between birth and age six.

Question 2

Students should be able to blend and segment sounds in a word.

Answer 2

A student who can blend sounds would be able to hear the individual phonemes, the smallest unit of sound and blend them into a word.

Question 3

What other skills are used in phonological awareness?

Answer 3

Rhyming, recognizing smaller words in larger words, and identifying beginning (onset) and ending sounds (rime) in words.

Question 4

The alphabetic principle?

Answer 4

Refers to the fact that each individual sound has a graphical representation of individual letters or letter blends./ Correspondence between sounds and letters that leads to reading.

Question 5

What is phonemic awareness?

Answer 5

This is the ability to hear that syllables and words are composed of blended phoneme.

Question 6

What are phonics?

Answer 6

This is a method used to relate letters to the speech sounds they represent.

Question 7

What is print awareness?

Answer 7

Print concepts include book orientation (what is the front), top to bottom progression, reading from left to right, and continuing to the next line of text after completing the first.

Question 8

The National Reading Council’s “Big 5” criterial components for being a successful reader:

Answer 8

Phonemic awareness
Phonics instruction
Fluency
Comprehension
Vocabulary
in Florida: oral language development/facility.

Question 9

Advanced reading comprehension skills:

Answer 9

Intermediate and secondary students will learn to analyze word choice to determine the denotation (Literal meaning) and connotation (implied meaning) of words.

Question 10

Word Awareness:

Answer 10

This is the knowledge that words have meaning.

Question 11

Are phonics really important in a tweyty-first-centuary reading classroom?

Answer 11

Yes, if a student does not have a strong foundation in phonics, he or she will retreat to memorizing and will have difficulty recognizing words accurately.

Question 12

T or F: In a secondary classroom, the ideas of connotation and denotation are vesicle the same.

Answer 12

F: Connotation refers to the implied menin and denotation refers to the literal meaning.

Question 13

Developing Content-Area Vocabulary: Strategies?

Answer 13

Word Wall
Words presented in context
Dictionary and thesaurus entries
Foldables
Total physical response
Repetition and multiple exposure

Question 14

Reading instruction in Content Area:

Answer 14

Content-Area reading instruction must focus on academic vocabulary.

Question 15

What are foldable?

Answer 15

These are three-dimensional graphic organizers that provide a way for students to organize, remember, and review information.

Question 16

T or F: Reading instructions is more relevant when it is dime within a content area.

Answer 16

T: Reading instructions is more relevant when it is dime within a content area.

Question 17

Should teachers explicitly teach vocabulary?

Answer 17

YEs, students benefit from explicit vocabulary teaching.

Question 18

Classroom teachers should model the use of the following reading comprehension strategies:

Answer 18

Set goals
Make predictions
Evaluate the text
Use context clues
Analyze the author's purpose and meaning
Monitor comprehension
Ask questions
Summarize the text

Question 19

Key components: Fluency:

Answer 19

is the ability to read with the precision, speed and the proper intonation.

Question 20

Key components: Automaticity:

Answer 20

Fluency requires automaticity, or automatic word recognition

Question 21

Key components: Rate:

Answer 21

Is the speed at which a child reads.

Question 22

Key components: Prosody:

Answer 22

refers to the versification of text, also known as reading with a natural rhythm and pace.

Question 23

In order to preview a text, a student should review what?

Answer 23

review the headings, subheadings, graphics, images, and captions.

Question 24

List three strategies for improving fluency:

Answer 24

Students are timed when they read aloud.
Students listening to the text and read along prior to attempting to read it aloud on their own.
Students read aloud to an adult that provides feedback.

Question 25

T or F: In order to focus on higher-order thinking skills through reading, students are required to present evidence from the text.

Answer 25

T:In order to focus on higher-order thinking skills through reading, students are required to present evidence from the text.

Question 26

Is it common to provide reading instruction and assessment without requiring higher-order thinking skills?

Answer 26

Yes, teachers must be intentional about requiring higher-order thinking skills while teaching reading.

Question 27

How many steps exist within the standard writhing process?

Answer 27

5: Prewriting (Brainstorm ideas, narrow down to specific)
Planning: Creare graphic organizer
Rough draft: The goal is to get ideas on paper.
Revise and edit.
Final draft: should be error free and have sense of wholeness.

Question 28

T or F: Teachers should not be too concerned that the content-area materials complement the student’s reading level.

Answer 28

F: it is critical that teachers focus on providing instructional materials that support the reading level.

Question 29

What is the zone of proximal development? ZPD

Answer 29

Was created by Vygotsky; he theorized that if a child was working within his ZPD, he would be successful when attempting challenging reading selections.

Question 30

T or F: Adolescents and primary readers connect with reading intervention strategies at the same rate.

Answer 30

F:As a general rule, primary students connect more quickly with reading-intervention strategies.

Question 31

What is a differentiated literacy center?

Answer 31

is focused upon groups of readers supported by levels reader.

Question 32

A Mnemonic device:

Answer 32

Is recall tool in which each first letter in the phrase stands for a word that students must remember. Please Excuse my Dear Aunt Sally

Question 33

In Acronyms:

Answer 33

each first letter represents an actual word. PTA Parent Teacher Asocciation.