Word Recognition

What are words that appear often in text?

• Sight Words

• Irregular Words

• High Frequency Words

• Vocabulary Words

What are sight words?

• Words that appear frequently in text

• Words retrieved from long term memory and can be read effortlessly

• Words that must be decoded in order to read accurately

• Words that the teacher defines at the beginning of a lesson

The process of connecting letters in the spellings of words to sounds in their pronunciations...

• orthographic mapping

• sight words

• automaticity

• orthographic representation

Orthographic mapping fosters growth in all of the following EXCEPT:

• fluency

• accuracy

• handwriting

• rate

Which of the following is essential for orthographic mapping to take place?

• phonics instruction

• comprehension practice

• word lists

• flash cards

Which of the following do you think is the least effective way to teach unknown words?

• flash cards

• find familiar chunks/parts in the word

• try different sounds for the vowels in the words

• reading them in context

Approximately what percentage of high frequency words are permanently irregular?

• Less that 20%

• 21-40%

• 41-60%

• 61-80%

The three "Buckets" for high frequency words are regularly decodable, permanently irregular, and ___________.

• decodable

• temporarily decodable

• temporarily irregular

• permanently decodable

Which of these words is permanently irregular?

• four

• seven

• six

• three

Which of these words is temporarily irregular?

• been

• laugh

• who

• water