Science of Reading
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- Q1What is the Simple View of Reading?It's complicatedComprehension is about making meaningWord Recognition & Language = Reading ComprehensionIt is a Psycholinguistic Guessing Game30s
- Q2What are the main elements of reading fluency?Accuracy, rate, and prosody/expressionTyping speed and eye movementsVocabulary, grammar and comprehension30s
- Q3What is phonemic awareness ?it is a rare condition of hyperlexic readersthe ability to parse the sounds of a language into the smallest units - phonemes30s
- Q4How many words on average does a skilled reader recognize per second?1 to 2 words2 to 3 words4 to 5 words30s
- Q5How many words are - at least - in an adult's reading lexicon?10 to 25 thousand25 to 75 thousandless than 10 thousand30s
- Q6True or False, the eyes of a skilled reader glide across the page while reading?TrueFalse30s
- Q7When reading, how many words are recognized in visual span at a time?2 to 31 to 1.53 to 44 or more30s
- Q8About how many words are there in a book like Harry Potter and Sorcerer's Stone?25000780001000005000030s
- Q9What is morphology?spelling system of a languagemeaningful units of language (e.g., un-, ing)sound structure of language30s
- Q10Most sight words follow what processing network route through brain:Visual to meaning to sound (internal pronunciation)Visual to sound (internal pronunciation) to meaningVisual to meaning30s
- Q11What is automaticity?ability to do something routine with minimal attentiondoing two things at oncebeing able to do something very fast30s
- Q12What types of subtests would be on (would you like) on a reading components battery?decoding, word recognition, vocabulary, morphology, sentence processing, fluent basic reading, passage comprehensionvocabulary and reading comprehension30s
- Q13What is a scenario-based assessment (SBA)?a series of disconnected items and passagesa visual simulation with audio supportan assessment where students are given a global purpose for reading a collection of thematic related, then work through various tasks towards achieving that literacy goal30s
- Q14What are different purposes for using reading assessments?anxiety, boredom, frustration, torture, avoidanceplacement, diagnosis, formative, progress monitoring, outcomes/gains30s
- Q15What is phonological processing?the ability to parse the sounds of a language into small units;the ability to recognize words by sightunderstanding words when listening30s