Elementary Literacy Teaching Terms and Concept Review

Question 1

A digraph is a two letter combination that stands for a single phoneme.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 2

The one-minute reading test is used to assess which component(s) of fluency?

Accepted Answer

accuracy and reading rate

Question 3

Form for analyzing Words Their Way spelling inventories to identify students’ errors & stages of development.

Accepted Answer

Feature Guide

Question 4

What is story grammar?

Accepted Answer

the rule system, elements, and sequencing of stories

Question 5

Accurate and effortless naming of upper and lower case letters is called letter naming fluency.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 6

Mentor texts are:

Accepted Answer

Text to show students a model of a strategy or technique they can imitate

Question 7

[In Patterns of Power] The “kid friendly” language that states a clearly defined learning goal is called the:

Accepted Answer

focus phrase

Question 8

If you are involving your students in reading different text types across a range of genres, you are engaging them in:

Accepted Answer

wide reading

Question 9

Which motivational strategy has children read scripts from familiar texts to build fluency?

Accepted Answer

readers’ theatre

Question 10

Writing Workshop is a format for teachers to organize writing and writing instruction.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 11

Which term refers to the act of monitoring one’s own comprehension of text and then taking corrective action?

Accepted Answer

metacognition

Question 12

If a child is finger-point reading by tracking print left → right on the book page, she is demonstrating directionality.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 13

Students need to learn to identify individual sounds or phonemes, in words. This is called phonemic awareness.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 14

What is the schwa?

Accepted Answer

vowel letters producing the uh sound

Question 15

Serravallo arranges strategies in chapters of WSB from those best for less experienced writers to those best for more.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 16

Decoding means converting speech to print; encoding means converting print to speech.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 17

The 5 step, spell-to-read approach is: hear-it, say-it, write-it, read it, use-it

Accepted Answer

True

Question 18

Major flaw of whole language approach is it focuses almost exclusively on one “pathway” to reading, whole word reading.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 19

The writing process teaches students how to write quick, single draft pieces of expository texts.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 20

Listening and spelling activities help to integrate the reading routes.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 21

[In Words Their Way] Assessment used like a spelling test to determine students’ spelling/orthographic levels.

Accepted Answer

Spelling inventory

Question 22

Teachers can use the Monster Test to assess students' oral reading and prosody.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 23

Middle/upper elementary students are ready to study morphology, Greek and Latin roots, suffixes, & homophones

Accepted Answer

True

Question 24

Combining letter sounds and spelling patterns from left to right to produce a pronunciation is called blending.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 25

Phonics instruction should begin with the teaching of __________________.

Accepted Answer

consistent and frequent consonants

Question 26

Stretching out a spoken word to say each sound heard in the word is oral segmenting.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 27

Which reading skill refers to instantly identifying whole or complete words including their meanings?

Accepted Answer

word recognition

Elementary Literacy Teaching Terms and Concept Review

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Elementary Literacy Teaching Terms and Concept Review

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