Science of Reading

Oliver, Harper, and Nora are on an exciting adventure to unlock the mysteries of reading instruction. They unearth an ancient scroll that cryptically mentions the 5 pillars of reading instruction. Can you assist them in decoding these 5 pillars?

• Phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension

• Meaning, visual cues, syntax, phonics, and comprehension

• Phonemic awareness, phonics, morphology, fluency, and comprehension

• Phonics, high frequency words, morphology, fluency, and comprehension

Aiden, Benjamin, and Jackson are having a debate. They are trying to define a 'grapheme'. Can you help them out?

• Is it just a letter?

• Or is it a letter or group of letters that correlates with one phoneme?

• Could it be a sound unit?

• Or is it a morphological unit?

Abigail, Evelyn, Daniel, Liam, Nora, and William are all in a thrilling competition to become the Phonemic Awareness Master. Can you lend them a hand?

What would they be doing if they were practicing Phonemic Awareness Instruction?

• Would they be teaching each other rhymes and syllables?

• Or, would they be doing phonics without any letters?

• Maybe, they are practicing phonics in the dark?

• Or, are they teaching each other how to manipulate and identify phonemes within words?

Imagine Avery, Mason, and Rohan are on a quest to discover the best method for phonics learning. They stumble upon some research that shows systematic phonics is the way to go. Can you help them identify the 3 elements that are included in a systematic phonics program?

• Linguistic, explicit, and includes decodables

• Scope and sequence, explicit, and includes decodables

• Synthetic, explicit, and includes decodables

• Scope and sequence, incidental, and includes decodables

Anika, Kai, and Evelyn are having a debate about fluency instruction. Can you help them figure out what fluency instruction really is?

• Is it instruction that aims to help students like Anika, Kai, and Evelyn read faster?

• Or is it instruction that aims to help students read more accurately?

• Maybe it's instruction that aims to help students read more smoothly?

• Or could it be instruction that aims to help students read more accurately, quickly, and with prosody?

Grace, Evelyn, and Samuel are having a debate. Grace thinks a phoneme is a sound, Evelyn thinks it's a letter, Samuel thinks it's a letter representing a sound, and you think it's a rhyme. Who is correct?

• Grace

• Evelyn

• Samuel

• You

Imagine Charlotte, Arjun, and Emma are playing a word game. They come across a term 'morpheme'. Can you help them understand what a morpheme is?

• Is it a pre-fix or suffix that they can add to a word?

• Is it a root word that they can build upon?

• Is it the smallest unit of language that can hold a meaning?

• Or is it a syllable that they can use to break down a word?

What does the term Science of Reading mean?