Foundations of Teaching Reading: Session 1

Students learn to read by...

• learning all their letters first.

• sounding out words.

• using word recognition and language comprehension.

• memorizing all the words.

The Big 5 includes the following: Phonological Awareness, (a)   , Fluency, Vocabulary and Comprehension.

Select the possible roadblocks for students in learning to read (select all that apply):

• Lack of motivation

• No cute clothes to wear to school

• Vocabulary gap

• Lack of data

How many phonemes are in the word "stand"?

• 5

• 4

• 2

• 6

How many graphemes are in the word "churns"?

• 5

• 6

• 4

• 7

Check all assessments that provide data on early literacy skills:

• Nonsense Word Fluency

• MAZE

• Phoneme Segmentation Fluency

• Letter Naming Fluency

Most students gain print awareness by having an adult read to them before bed every night.

• True

• False

Select all materials from Wonders Balanced Literacy that you can use to teach Print Awareness and Letter Knowledge.

• Read Aloud

• Shared Reading

• Phonics Lessons

• Decodable Books