Module 1-2 Review

True or False: Constrained reading skills are those that have boundaries or upper limits. (phonemic awareness, basic print concepts)

• True

• False

Answer explanation

Constrained reading skills have a finite point at which they are learned. Once constrained skills are learned, there is no additional benefit to continuing to teach them.

Which of the following are examples of unconstrained skills?

• Letter recognition

• Vocabulary

• Phonics

• Phonological awareness

Answer explanation

Unconstrained skills have no endpoint. Vocabulary and reading comprehension expands as you age, therefore no endpoint to your learning of these skills.

Scarborough's Reading Rope includes:

• Language Comprehension

• Fluency

• Word Recognition

Answer explanation

Scarborough's Rope is split into two defined sections, Language Comprehension and Word Recognition. Language Comprehension is strategic (background knowledge, vocabulary, language structures, verbal reasoning, literacy knowledge). Word Recognition is automatic (phonological awareness, decoding, sight recognition). Together they equal comprehension.

Phonemic awareness is.....

• Word Awareness

• Blending

• Rhyming

• Segmentation

Answer explanation

Phonemic Awareness is the ability to work with the individual sound or phoneme in spoken words. Examples are blending, manipulation, segmentation, and substitution.

True or False: Phonemic awareness is one of the best early predictors of the success a student will have in learning to read.

• True

• False

Phonological awareness can be best developed by using...

• Read alouds using alliteration

• Syllables

• Rhymes

• All of the above

True or False: English sounds are represented in 250 spellings.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

The 26 letters make about 44 phonemes and sounds are represented in 250 different spellings.

Being able to segment the letter sounds, or phonemes, is an early literacy skill that should be developed during....

• Preschool

• Kindergarten

• First grade

• Second grade

True or False: Most children have developed phonemic awareness by the end of kindergarten.

• True

• False

Reading strategies are ___________, goal-directed attempts to control and modify the reader's efforts to decode text, understand words and ________________ of text.

• Automatic

• Deliberate

• Construct meaning

• The Comprehension

Answer explanation

Reading STRATEGIES are deliberate, goal attempts to control and modify the reader's efforts to decode text, understand words, and construct meanings of text. Reading SKILLS are automatic actions that result in decoding and comprehension with speed, efficiency, and fluency and usually occur without awareness of the components or control involved.