Reading Staff Meeting

What is the best definition of a phoneme?

• Something you can call someone using.

• The smallest unit of sound in a word.

• The smallest unit of meaning in a word.

• A small sound.

What is a grapheme?

• A type of graph.

• A sound in a word.

• The representation of a phoneme.

• A letter that makes a sound.

What are the key components missing from the reading rope?

• Background knowledge, vocabulary and inference.

• Background knowledge, vocabulary and language structure.

• Background knowledge, vocabulary and language meaning.

• Background knowledge, vocabulary and language comprehension.

How many different types of inference are there?

• Too many to count.

• 4

  Deductive, inductive, abductive & reductive.

• 3

  Deductive, inductive & abductive.

• 2

  Deductive & inductive.

What are the three strands of fluency?

• Accuracy, automaticity and prosody.

• Accuracy, automaticity and tone.

• Accuracy, intonation and prosody.

• Automaticity, intonation and prosody.

Which of these is NOT included as a statement in the end of KS2 expected standard?

• Read age appropriate texts with confidence and fluency including whole novels.

• Read aloud with intonation that shows understanding.

• Evaluate how authors use language.

• Identify the theme of a text and justify with quotation.

A boy born in Stockton Town (a town with high levels of illiteracy) will have a shorter life expectancy than a boy born in North Oxford; how much shorter?

• 26 years

• 12 years

• 15 years

• 30 years

Which book is not on our reading spine?

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A child on track for EXS should be reading at a speed of ...

• 90 words per minute

• 100 words per minute

• 92 words per minute

• 80 words per minute

Orthographic mapping is best described as

• the ability to recognise words based on their meaning

• the ability to recognise words when you haven't seen them before

• the ability to segment and blend to read a word

• the ability to instantly recognise words having decoded them previously