Vocabulary

Question 1

Onset

Answer 1

in a syllable the onset is the initial consonant sound or consonant blend

Question 2

Rime

Answer 2

Vowel and consonant

-vowel and any consonants that follow

Question 3

Digraph

Answer 3

When two letters come together to produce one sound

ex: in the word digraph the ph makes the /f/ sound

Question 4

Alphabetic Principle

Answer 4

one letter stands for one sound

Question 5

Intonation

Answer 5

the rise and fall of the voice when speaking

Question 6

Accuracy

Answer 6

reading words without making mistakes

Question 7

Inflectional Suffixes

Answer 7

plural, possessives, verb tenses

Question 8

Derivational Suffixes

Answer 8

changes meaning of a word

ex: observe, observer, observant

Question 9

Homophone

Answer 9

produce the same sound

ex: to, too, two

Question 10

Homograph

Answer 10

same spelling, different meaning

ex: lead (group leader), Lead (pencil lead)

Question 11

Homonym

Answer 11

same name words

ex: cool (body temperature), cool (slang)

Question 12

Automaticity

Answer 12

fast and effortless word recognition

Question 13

Decode

Answer 13

students are able to look at words and read them

Question 14

Encode

Answer 14

students are given a word and they can write and spell it correctly

Question 15

Dipthong

Answer 15

a gliding vowel makes two sounds

ex: cow. oil, boy

Question 16

Prosody

Answer 16

reading with expression, phrasing, pitch, volume

Question 17

Phonological Awareness

Answer 17

awareness that oral language is made up of smaller units, such as spoken words or syllables

Question 18

Phonemic Awareness

Answer 18

ability to distinguish the separate phonemes in a sound

ability to hear, identify and manipulate individual sounds

Question 19

Long vowel

Answer 19

a vowel says its name

Question 20

Short Vowel

Answer 20

occur in words like pet, cat, bit, cot

Question 21

Print Awareness

Answer 21

oral language can be written

Question 22

Grapheme

Answer 22

written representation of a sound

Question 23

Phoneme

Answer 23

an individual sound a written letter makes

Question 24

Factors that disrupt Fluency

Answer 24

weak word analysis

stopping to decode unfamiliar words

lack of content vocabulary

lack of background knowledge

inappropriate levels of texts

Question 25

Instructional Level

Answer 25

word recognition 90% or higher
comprehension level 60% or higher

a student can be instructed

Question 26

Independent Level

Answer 26

word recognition 95% or higher
Comprehension 90% or higher

a student can read and comprehend without assistance

Question 27

Word Recognition

Answer 27

word recognition less than 90%

comprehension less than 60%

student is completely unable to read with adequate word identification or comprehension