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VOCABULARY EXAM QUESTIONS

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Question 1: Consonant Blend

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A combination of 2 or 3 consonants that appear consecutively in a word and each consonant represents its most common sound. Two or three consonants are blended, however, each retains its own sound.These can be initial or final consonants, as sw in swell.

Question 2: Open Syllable

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A syllable ending in a vowel sound rather than a consonant sound, as /ba/ and /be/ in baby.

Question 3: Encoding

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Transferring or sounding out letters in the written language into sounds in order to decode words.

Question 4: Graphic Organizer

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Graphic organizers are effective visual tools for thinking and learning as they hep teachers and students to represent abstract or implicit information in more concrete form; depict the relationships among facts and concepts; see full definition.

Question 5: Content-Subject Text

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Books, textbooks, and/or materials related to specific subjects such as science or social studies. Often categorized as informational or expository texts.

Question 6: IRI Word Lists

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Graded lists of 20 words that is used to identify with which grade level passage, the passage test of the IRI should begin with. See IRI.

Question 7: Irregular Sight Words

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Words that contain letter-sound correspondences unique to themselves or to only a few words, such as was, they, none, and done. When learning to read students need to know such words fluently and automatically as the progress in their reading skills.

Question 8: Assessment

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The act or process of gathering data in order to better understand the strengths and weaknesses of student learning, as by observation, testing, interviews, etc.

Question 9: Affixes

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A group of bound morphemes, prefixes, such as anti- or un-, and suffixes, such as -ful or -sion. When added to a word or a root, affixes change the meaning of the word, parts of speech, and pronunciation.

Question 10: Informal Reading Inventory (IRI)

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The use of graded series of word lists and passages of increasing difficulty to determine students' strengths, weaknesses, and strategies in word identification and comprehension.

Question 11: Digraph

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Two letters that represent one speech sound as ch for /ch/ in cheese or ea for /e/ in bread.

Question 12: Grapheme

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A written or printed representation of a phoneme as b for /b/ and oy for /oi/.

Question 13: Appositive

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A word or phrase that restates or modifies an immediately preceding noun. (e.g. Thomas, Mr. Reyes's son, will graduate this June).

Question 14: Decodable Text

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The purpose of this type of text is to provide repeated practice for, recognizing spelling units in printed words or letter-sound patterns, taught in phonics instruction.

Question 15: Double-entry Journal

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A student takes notes and adds reflections while reading any text. A 2-column format is used. Typ. the left column is used to record specific statements from a text that are important in understanding the text; the right to record responses and reactions.

Question 16: Cloze

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The term refers to a variety of sentence completion techniques in which words are strategically left out of a text so that readers can supply the missing words using only context clues. Cloze tests can be designed to provide informal diagnostic info.

Question 17: Differential Reading Instruction

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The provision of varied learning situations and reading instruction, as whole class, small-group, or individual instruction, to meet the needs of students at different levels of reading competence, such as the use of different grade-level texts.

Question 18: Etymology

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A branch of linguistics that studies the origin and historical development of words. Pieology, the study of pizza pies.

Question 19: Interactive Writing

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A shared experience used to assist emergent readers in learning to read and write. With the help from the teacher, students dictate sentences about a shared experience, such as a story, movie, or event.

Question 20: Fluency

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The ability to read smoothly, quickly and with expression.

Question 21: High Frequency Word

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A word that appears many more times than most other words in spoken or written language (see also Dolch words, Fry's words); or learning sequences.

Question 22: Diphthong

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The cow wears a thong. A vowel sound produced when the tongue moves or glides from one vowel sound toward another vowel sound in the same syllable, as /oi/ in boy, coil, or /ou/ in sound, cow.

Question 23: Dialogue Journal

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These journals are written dialogue between the journal "owner" and a selected "partner;" the partner responds to what has been written by the owner. It is important that responses deal with what has been written and not just the conventions of writing.

Question 24: Invented Spelling

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Also known as temporary spelling, or approximation, refers to an emergent writer's attempt to spell a word phonetically when the spelling is unknown. Children's temp. spelling is a direct reflection of their own developing knowledge of phonics.

Question 25: Base Word

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A word to which affixes may be added to create related words, as source in resource or resourceful.Base words are also referred to as free morphemes because they can stand by themselves.