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What is the origin and meaning of "ang" - Correct AnswersLatin; bend What does the Conner's Report help diagnose? - Correct AnswersADD Synonyms, Antonyms, and Homonyms are _______? - Correct AnswersMorphemes Define prosody - Correct AnswersFlow of speech Define euphony - Correct Answerssound/pleasing sound Reading nonsense words on a norm-referenced test is used to assess what? - Correct Answersword attack What is the origin of the "schwa" or unstressed vowel sound? - Correct AnswersLatin What is the origin of the affixing of base words? - Correct AnswersLatin What is the origin of combining words? - Correct AnswersGreek What is the origin of compound words? - Correct AnswersAnglo-Saxon What is the origin of the affixing of roots? - Correct AnswersAnglo-Saxon Sadly has how phonemes? - Correct Answers Sadly has how many syllables? - Correct Answers What is the base word of sadly? - Correct AnswersSad What is the suffix of sadly? - Correct Answers-ly
How many morphemes does sadly have? - Correct Answers What is sadly's word origin? - Correct AnswersAnglo-Saxon What is the origin of vowel pairs? - Correct AnswersAnglo-Saxon What is the origin of chameleon prefixes? - Correct AnswersLatin What is the origin of the consonant cluster ch pronounced (k)? - Correct AnswersGreek What is the origin of Medial Y? - Correct AnswersGreek What is the origin of the consonant pairs gn, kn, & wr? - Correct AnswersAnglo- Saxon What is the origin of roots that end in ct and pt? - Correct AnswersLatin What is the origin of initial consonant clusters rh, pt, pn, & ps? - Correct AnswersGreek What is the origin of common, everyday words? - Correct AnswersAnglo-Saxon What is the origin of the letter c, s, & t pronounced (sh)? - Correct AnswersLatin What is the origin of consonant digraphs ch, sh, th, & wh? - Correct AnswersAnglo-Saxon Who coined the term congenital word blindness? - Correct AnswersJames Hinshelwood What are the three languages that have most influenced the English Language? - Correct AnswersAnglo-Saxon/Old English, Latin, & Greek What is the term for not being able to recall names? - Correct Answersdysnomia
What is the term for two adjacent vowels in the same syllable whose sounds blend together with a slide or shift during productivity? - Correct AnswersDiphthong What is the term for two adjacent letters in the same syllable that represent one sound? - Correct AnswersDigraph What is the term for combined sounds represented by letters to pronounce a word? - Correct AnswersBlends What is the term that applies to a letter which may represent more than one sound or to a sound which may be spelled in more than one way? (k, c//ck, k) - Correct AnswersEquivocal What is the term for the understanding that spoken sounds are represented in print by written letters? - Correct AnswersAlphabetic Principle What is the term for the smallest unit of sound in a syllable? - Correct AnswersPhoneme What is the term for the simplest form of an English word to which affixes may be added? - Correct AnswersBase Word What is the term for the rules that determine how sounds are used in spoken language? - Correct AnswersPhonology What is the term for the rhythmic flow of oral reading? - Correct AnswersProsody What is the term for the overlapping, changing, or modifying of adjacent speech sounds? Ex: hugged->hissed - Correct AnswersCoarticulation What is the term for the mental activity of receiving, understanding, weighing, ordering, remembering, and examining sounds, especially speech sounds? - Correct AnswersAuditory Processing
What is the term for the meaningful components of language? - Correct AnswersSemantics What is the term for the knowledge that words are made up of individual sounds? Skills included are: syllabication, rhyming, blending sounds into words, isolating beginning - Correct AnswersPhonological Awareness What is the term for the initial stage of spelling in which novice writers understand that a symbol stands for a unit or units of sound and attempts to represent that sound? - Correct AnswersInvented Spelling What is the term for the active part of the memory system w/a distinctly limited time element or retention? - Correct AnswersShort-term Memory What is the term for the accurate and effortless word identification at the single word level? - Correct AnswersAutomaticity What is the term for the ability to retain the visual image of a two dimensional symbol, especially the sequence of symbols in whole words or the sequence of words in phrases? - Correct AnswersVisual Memory What is the term for the ability to retain the shape of a letter through muscle movement and feel the sound as it is made? - Correct AnswersTactile-Kinesthetic Memory What is the term for the ability to listen and remember sounds, words, and sentences in sequence (listening to a song and repeating the words back)? - Correct AnswersAuditory Memory What is the term for the ability to hear likenesses and differences in the sounds of phonemes and words? - Correct AnswersAuditory Discrimination What is the term for the ability to decode single words correctly with the freedom from mistake or error? - Correct AnswersAccuracy What is the term for the study of the characteristics of speech sounds? - Correct AnswersPhonetics
What is the term that is related to seeing? - Correct AnswersVisual What is the term that is related to muscle movement and memory? - Correct AnswersKinesthetic What is the term that is related to hearing? - Correct AnswersAuditory What is the term that is related to reading with rapidity and automaticity? - Correct AnswersFluency What is the term that means putting stress on a word or part of a word by opening your mouth wider, making your voice louder and higher, and holding the sound longer? - Correct AnswersAccent What is the term pertaining to the simultaneous use of multiple senses? - Correct AnswersMultisensory What is the term pertaining to parts that are built to a whole? (Part-whole) - Correct AnswersSynthetic What is the term pertaining to a whole that is broken into constituent parts? - Correct AnswersAnalytic What is the term for partial or complete impairment of the ability to communicate resulting from brain injury? (speech disorder) - Correct AnswersDysphasia Oi, oy, ou, and ow are all what? - Correct AnswersDiphthongs What is the term for a math disability? - Correct AnswersDyscalculia What is the term pertaining to the loss of ability to read because of brain injury? - Correct AnswersAlexia What is the term pertaining to letters or sounds that are beside each other within a word or syllable? - Correct AnswersAdjacent
What is the term pertaining to a language disorder that results from damage to portions of the brain that are responsible for language? It impairs expression, understanding, and reading, etc. - Correct AnswersAphasia What is the term for keeness of vision? - Correct AnswersAcuity What is the term for the instruction that connects sound and letter, application of phonics in an approach to teach reading and spelling, stressing symbol and sound relations? - Correct AnswersPhonics What is the term for information that must be presented in a sequence that builds logically on previously taught materials? - Correct AnswersSequential teaching What is the term for including more than one level or focus of practice? - Correct AnswersHeterogeneous practice What is the term for early term of dyslexia? - Correct AnswersWord blindness What is the term for the disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or in using language (spoken or written)? - Correct AnswersSpecific learning disability What is the term for the difficulty with verbal expression, difficulty with syntax, morphology, and semantics? (used gestures and sign language) - Correct AnswersExpressive language What is the term for difficulty in the ability to attend to process, comprehend, retain, or integrate spoken language? - Correct AnswersReceptive language What is the term for the deficit in phonological awareness and rapid naming? - Correct AnswersDouble deficit What is the term for the conscious choice of and evaluation of the strategies used to accomplish a task? - Correct AnswersMetacognition
What is the term for a unit of speech sound organized around a vowel? - Correct AnswersSyllable What is the term for a syllable with two adjacent vowels in initial, medial, or final position? - Correct AnswersVowel pair syllable What is the term for a syllable that has an r after the vowel? - Correct AnswersVowel-r syllable What is the term for a syllable that ends in one vowel, one consonant, and final e?
- Correct AnswersVce syllable What is the term for a suffix that begins with a consonant? - Correct AnswersConsonant suffix What is the term for a specific sensory pathway? - Correct AnswersModality What is the term for a practice session with only one focus? - Correct AnswersHomogeneous practice What is the term for a nonphonetic, recurring syllable that is fairly stable in its pronunciation and spelling? - Correct AnswersConsonant -le syllable What is the term for a morpheme which may not stand alone as an independent word as -ing? - Correct AnswersBound morpheme What is the term for a meaningful unit of language? - Correct AnswersMorpheme What is the term for a letter or letters added to the end of a base word to change its form or usage? - Correct AnswersSuffix What is the term for tests that measure sight word reading? - Correct AnswersWoodcock Johnson, Woodcock Reading, WIAT Which language only accounts for 10% of our language? - Correct AnswersFrench
Who came up with congenital word blindness? - Correct AnswersDr. W. P. Morgan Which of Chall's stages is college and beyond; reading is for one's own needs and purpose; synthesize new knowledge? - Correct AnswersChall's Stage 5 Which of Chall's stages is increased fluency, simple stories, making meaning out of text, grade 2-3, ages 7 to 8? - Correct AnswersChall's Stage 2 What is the term for words that have different meanings but are spelled the same; pronunciation made be the same or different- wind/wind - Correct AnswersHomographs What is the name of the test that measures sight word reading? - Correct AnswersTOWRE (ch) and (j) are examples of? - Correct AnswersAffricate Who created alphabetic phonics? - Correct AnswersAylett Cox What is the term for a letter or letters added to the beginning of a base word to change its meaning? (for euphony, the final consonant may be dropped or changed to match) - Correct AnswersPrefix What is the term for a letter or letter cluster that represents a single speech sound? - Correct AnswersGrapheme What is the language written in symbols or letters, each which singly or in combination stands for a speech sound? - Correct AnswersAlphabet language What is the term for a diacritical marking for long vowel? - Correct AnswersMacron What is the term for a class of speech sounds with air flow that is constricted or obstructed? - Correct AnswersConsonants Who coined the phrase "Word Blindness?" - Correct AnswersAdolf Kussmaul
When you teach a long vowel sound by first teaching a short vowel then moving to long vowel, how is this taught? - Correct AnswersDiscovery Method When students need help with long vowel sounds, what should you do? - Correct AnswersRead words containing particular long vowel sounds to gain speed and automaticity. What year was IDEA established? - Correct Answers What type of test is based on the material just taught? - Correct AnswersCurriculum based test What syllable do you find the schwa sound? - Correct AnswersUnaccented vowel What sound does "c" make before the letters of e, i, or y? - Correct Answers(s) What revisions were made to IDEA in 1992? - Correct AnswersClarification on assistive technology and supplemental aides What is the origin of the word "Lexia?" - Correct AnswersGreek What is the best way to teach going from short vowel sounds to long vowel sounds? - Correct AnswersTake off the final consonant What are the four components of language? - Correct Answersall of the answers What is phonology? - Correct AnswersSound units What are semantics? - Correct AnswersMeaning of words and sentences What is syntax? - Correct AnswersThe arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language. What are pragmatics? - Correct Answersthe appropriate use of language in different contexts
What is another name for Preparation or writing on the board or table top? - Correct AnswersChalk Talk What is IDEA? - Correct AnswersIndividuals with Disabilities Education Act The amended law of IDEA forms what? - Correct Answersthe basis for Special Education in all 50 states Dyslexia is an example of a foundation of what? - Correct AnswersIDEA To maintain certification, what must a therapist have? - Correct Answers clinical hours a year The presence of fluid in the middle ear which can result in hearing loss or speech- language difficulties is called what? - Correct AnswersAcute Otis Media The Norman Conquest (Battle of Hastings) caused the French influence on the English language in what time period? - Correct Answers Socratic Method of asking questions to lead students to discover new information is called what? - Correct AnswersDiscovery This results in students being able to understand and connect the new info- what is it called? - Correct AnswersDiscovery Is "gymnasium" Latin, Greek, French, or Anglo-Saxon? - Correct AnswersGreek In the word PERMIT, what affect does changing the accent have? - Correct AnswersChanges the meaning How does a teacher in a rural area charge? - Correct AnswersSliding scale- based on the ability of the person to pay In 1900, a Scottish ophthalmologist reported 2 cases of "word blindness." Who was this doctor? - Correct AnswersJames Hinshelwood
Which of Chall's stages is this? Pre-reading "pseudo reading"- oral language development. Child "pretends" to read, retells story when looking at pages of book previously read to him/her, names of alphabet; recognizes some signs; prints own name; plays with books; pencils and paper - Correct AnswersDr. Chall's stage 0 Beginning in the 1400's, what was the movement of vowels to the back and top of the mouth called? - Correct AnswersThe Great Vowel Shift (Time of Chaucer) According to the National Reading Panel Report (2000), which of the following represents the strongest indication of a reading disability? - Correct AnswersA deficit in phonology What is the origin of these words: hydro, hydrogen, hydrant? - Correct AnswersGreek What is the origin of these words: scent, scene= "sc" = (s)? - Correct AnswersLatin What is the origin of these words: telephone, telegraph= tele? - Correct AnswersGreek What is the origin of short words with "th"? - Correct AnswersAnglo-Saxon What is the origin of these words ending in -ic: charasmatic, music, chronic? - Correct AnswersGreek What is the origin of these words with 'ch' = (ch): chair, chin? - Correct AnswersAnglo-Saxon What is the origin of these chameloen prefixes im, ir, in: illegal, impossible? - Correct AnswersLatin What is the origin of these words with k in longer words: kilometer, kinesthetic? - Correct AnswersGreek
What is the origin of these words with ti, si, and ci =(sh): station, facial? - Correct AnswersLatin What is the origin of wild, old, kind words? - Correct AnswersAnglo-Saxon What is the origin of words with silent h: hour, herb? - Correct AnswersLatin What is the origin of photo: photography, photosynthesis? - Correct AnswersGreek What is the origin of soft c before e or i: certain, city? - Correct AnswersLatin What is the origin of silent initial p: pneumonia, psychology? - Correct AnswersGreek What is the origin of basic color words? - Correct AnswersAnglo-Saxon What is the origin of tu= (choo): eventual, fortunate? - Correct AnswersLatin What is the origin of the terms for outer body parts? - Correct AnswersAnglo- Saxon What is the origin of connective o: democrat, photograph? - Correct AnswersGreek What is the origin of bio= biology, biosphere? - Correct AnswersGreek What is the origin of "wh", "ng", "wr"? - Correct AnswersAnglo-Saxon What is the origin of words with "ssion": mission, expression, usually with a short vowel? - Correct AnswersLatin What is the origin of ending -ology: biology, geology? - Correct AnswersGreek What is the origin of "Floss" words? - Correct AnswersAnglo-Saxon What is the origin of "ture" = (cher): adventure, nature? - Correct AnswersLatin
What is the origin of short words with silent letters: knot, doubt? - Correct AnswersAnglo-Saxon Which is not one of the three periods that influenced the English language? - Correct AnswersIrish Who developed in 1985 the Phonological Awareness Development Hierarchy: words in sentences, syllables in words. - Correct AnswersIsabell Lieberman What is the origin of usually one-syllable words, common in everyday speech and primary grades? - Correct AnswersAnglo-Saxon What is the origin of words that often involve Science, medical, school (social studies) textbooks, or arts? - Correct AnswersGreek Who is the person that stated in the Journal of Learning Disabilities, "individuals with dyslexia are distinguished by their phonologically based decoding disability..." - Correct AnswersLouisa Motes What is the origin of common words in technical, sophisticated words in literature and upper grades? - Correct AnswersLatin What is the origin of most vowel teams: oa, oi, etc? - Correct AnswersAnglo-Saxon What is the origin of usually multiple syllables? - Correct AnswersLatin What is the origin of y = (long i sound): cyclone, gym, type - Correct AnswersGreek Who is the person credited in 1920 had children trace letters, naming sound while writing= VAK? - Correct AnswersGrace Fernald When do you drop the final e? - Correct AnswersWhen a baseword ends in a silent e after one or more consonants, drop the e before adding a vowel suffix. Which program was published by Educators Publishing service that is a comprehensive program including specific directions for instruction, practice materials, and criterion reference posttests? - Correct AnswersMTA
Who is the person that coined the term "strephosymbolia" in 1925 to replace "word blindness"? - Correct AnswersSamuel Orton What is IEP? - Correct AnswersIndividualized Education Plan Who is the diagnostician in 1933 that trained Beth Slingerland, a teacher that wrote the Slingerland Method? - Correct AnswersAnna Gillingham What did the amendment in 1997 to section 504 of the IDEA do? - Correct AnswersProvided for educational placement for juvenile delinquents What is analytic teaching? - Correct AnswersWhole to part What is an example of analytic teaching? - Correct AnswersWord association like rhyme- mat, cat, fat= student can read bat What is criterion referenced test? - Correct AnswersMeasures a student's performance based on mastery of a specific set of skills What is an example of criterion referenced test? - Correct AnswersAll of the answers are correct What is the origin and meaning of astro? - Correct AnswersGreek- Star What is the origin and meaning of bio? - Correct AnswersGreek- life What is the origin and meaning of cogn? - Correct AnswersLatin- know What is the origin and meaning of duc, duce, duct? - Correct AnswersLatin- lead What is the origin and meaning of geo? - Correct AnswersGreek- earth What is the origin and meaning of man, manu? - Correct AnswersLatin- hand What is the origin and meaning of rupt? - Correct AnswersLatin- break
