Jeopardy Theoretical Perspectives Early LiteracyElements of Literacy Teaching Reading Potpourri Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Final Jeopardy

$100 Question from H1 Phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, comprehension, fluency

$100 Answer from H1 What are the components that the National Reading Panel believes are necessary for a comprehensive reading program?

$200 Question from H1 Skills-based vs. meaning-based instruction

$200 Answer from H1 What is the “Great Debate in Reading” that is also known as the “ReadingWars”?

$300 Question from H1 The teacher points to the written word matador and asks how many syllables will be in that word.

$300 Answer from H1 What is phonics/phonological awareness?

$400 Question from H1 The ability to hear, identify, and manipulate individual sounds, phonemes, in spoken words does not require light.

$400 Answer from H1 Why can phonemic awareness be done in the dark?

$500 Question from H1 Oral language skills, English language proficiency, literacy skills in first language, cognitive capacity, and word recognition skills

$500 Answer from H1 Which factors must be considered when developing the ELL’s literacy skills?

$100 Question from H2 The teacher says /f/ /l/ /E/ and asks the students to blend the sounds.

$100 Answer from H2 What is phonemic awareness?

$200 Question from H2 Written symbols represent spoken sounds.

$200 Answer from H2 What is the alphabetic principle?

$300 Question from H2 an, ack, in

$300 Answer from H2 What are rimes?

$400 Question from H2 Family traditions

$400 Answer from H2 Which sociocultural factor is not extremely important in literacy learning?

$500 Question from H2 Knowing how to hold a book the right way, differentiating between print and pictures, turning pages left to right, reading lines of text from left to right, and telling words from letters

$500 Answer from H2 What concepts are most important to develop children’s emerging literacy?

$100 Question from H3 Before reading the students browse the book to predict the main content of the story and to ask questions about what they will learn.

$100 Answer from H3 What is comprehension?

$200 Question from H3 The ability to identify words rapidly.

$200 Answer from H3 What is automaticity?

$300 Question from H3 Tri-

$300 Answer from H3 What is a morpheme?

$400 Question from H3 Obtaining a sight word vocabulary is important because it enables readers to read without segmenting words into sounds and letters and permits the reader to read without effort.

$400 Answer from H3 What is the role of sight word recognition in effective reading?

$500 Question from H3 One is an understanding about spoken language while the other is knowing the relation between specific, printed letters and specific, spoken sounds.

$500 Answer from H3 Your Text Here

$100 Question from H4 Learn best through drill, skill, and repetition

$100 Answer from H4 What is reading taught from a behaviorist perspective?

$200 Question from H4 Learning to read can be seen as a series of skills that are accomplished, like walking up steps.

$200 Answer from H4 What is the bottom-up theory of teaching reading?

$300 Question from H4 Readers access cueing systems, informational sources that allow them to make sense of print.

$300 Answer from H4 How do psycholinguists believe that readers make sense of print?

$400 Question from H4 Meaning-making is influenced by the readers’ prior knowledge and the social and cultural background of the reader.

$400 Answer from H4 What is the transactional theory of teaching reading?

$500 Question from H4 Having trouble making connections with the text.

$500 Answer from H4 What is an example of a lack of background knowledge making a topic difficult to understand what is being read?

$100 Question from H5 The first are the smallest units of meaning, it cannot be “split” any further into smaller parts, while the second has no intrinsic meaning.

$100 Answer from H5 What is the difference between a morpheme and a syllable?

$200 Question from H5 If the reader labors to decode words, then they do not have attention or mental resources left over to dedicate to comprehension which means they are not really reading, only word calling.

$200 Answer from H5 What is the role of fluency in comprehension?

$300 Question from H5 Provides instruction in a carefully selected and useful set of letter- sound relationships and then organizes the introduction of these relationships into a logical instructional sequence.

$300 Answer from H5 What is meant by “systematic and explicit” instruction?

$400 Question from H5 Has been conceived as mostly a cognitive process.

$400 Answer from H5 What is literacy?

$500 Question from H5 Developing phonemic awareness helps the beginning reader build a more meaningful connection between oral and written language as they begin to read and write.

$500 Answer from H5 What is the role of phonemic awareness in emergent literacy?

Final Jeopardy A child’s early years lay the foundation for all that is to come. In recent years, researchers have learned that the human brain develops the vast majority of its neurons, and is at its most receptive to learning, between birth and three years of age. The intake of new information is critical to the formation of active neural pathways.

Final Jeopardy Answer Why is early reading success so important?