Unit 2: Chp. 3, 4

Question 1

Reading Readiness:

Answer 1

A certain time in which an individual developed sufficiently to be taught to read with optimal success.

Question 2

Emergent Literacy:

Answer 2

Humans develop literacy at birth and continue to develop as literate beings throughout life.

Question 3

The Big Five:

Answer 3

Essential foundations of early reading success determined by the The National Reading Panel. They are Phonemic Awareness, Alphabetics, Fluency, Vocabulary, Comprehension.

Question 4

Phonological Awareness:

Answer 4

An umbrella term that includes hearing and manipulating parts of spoken language such as words, syllables, rhyming elements in syllables, and alteration.

Question 5

Phonemic Awareness:

Answer 5

An awareness of the smallest units of sound in speech.

Question 6

Phonics:

Answer 6

A teaching method that relates spoken sounds to written symbols in systematic and predictable ways(letter-sound relationships), and how this knowledge can be used by readers to decode words in print.

Question 7

Decoding:

Answer 7

Breaking the code of written words symbols(letters) and translating the letters, affixes, syllables, and other word parts into a spoken word.

Question 8

Word Recognition:

Answer 8

Instantly identifying whole or complete words, including their meanings, without resorting to analyzing words into smaller parts.

Question 9

Alphabetic Principle:

Answer 9

An understanding that specific letters or letter combinations are used in print to represent specific speech sounds in spoken words.

Question 10

Morphemes:

Answer 10

Basic meaning units within a word, the two types are free and bound.