Feb. Literacy Coach Meeting

Which of the following should be in box 3?

• reading comprehension

• listening comprehension

• the science of reading

• background knowledge

What components of the Simple view of Reading belong in boxes 1 and 2?

• reading comprehension and phonological awareness

• phonics and phonological awareness

• word recognition (decoding) and vocabulary

• word recognition (decoding) and language comprehension

What are the two components for boxes 6 and 7?

• fluency and vocabulary

• background knowledge and vocabulary

• phonics and phonological awareness

• context clues and fluency

Which two components should be in boxes 4 & 5?

• decoding and encoding

• phonological awareness and fluency

• vocabulary and background knowledge

• phonological awareness & phonics

Fluency serves as a bridge between which two processes?

• word recognition (decoding) & vocabulary

• phonological awareness and comprehension

• word recognition (decoding) and comprehension

• comprehension and vocabulary

What is phonological awareness?

• the use of context clues to determine unknown words when reading

• the understanding that speech can be broken down into parts, or units of sound, and the ability to manipulate those parts

• the understanding that all sounds are represented by written letters and letter combinations

• the understanding that sounds make words

What is phonics?

• the connection of the sounds heard with letters and letter combinations

• the understanding that speech can be broken down into parts, or units of sound, and the ability to manipulate those parts

• the understanding that sounds make words

• the connection between written words and their meaning

What is a grapheme?

• a unit of sound

• a unit of writing

• the smallest functional unit of sound

• the smallest functional unit of writing

What is a phoneme?

• smallest unit of writing

• smallest unit of writing with meaning

• smallest unit of sound

• smallest unit of sound with meaning

Which phonological awareness activity would be the most difficult for a student?

• deleting a phoneme and saying the word that remains

• identifying rhyming words

• blending phonemes into real words

• segmenting words into phonemes