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Students read sight and high-frequency words aloud based on the word/grade level for the student. This assessment is scored by accuracy on level and speed of #words per minute.

Students tell the teacher the phonetic sound for each letter on the form. Letters are presented in uppercase and lowercase. Only consonants are used, and either sound is accepted for C and G. LEtter sounds are a very early skill related to later reading achievement; they can be used to identify candidates for early intervention. Score is # correct in 1 minute.

The teacher says a three-letter CVC nonsense word. The student must choose the correct matching word from three possible choices, based on the sounds in the word the teacher said. Score is # correct in 1 minute.

The use of letter tiles and dictation are examples of which of the following?

Which words would be best for teaching multiple meanings with the spelling pattern? (Select 2)

What is the doublet pattern?

Scarborough’s Reading Rope identifies three major strands, or subskills, that contribute to printed word recognition: (mark all that apply)

Letter tiles used to make words that contain the correspondences that have been taught. The teacher says the word, models the segmentation of its sounds and counts how many grapheme tiles will be needed to spell it.

The term “sirvinacuy” refers to 

In their essay “Epidemics in the Sabana de Bogotá, 1536-1810,” Juan and Judith Villamarín found that epidemics were caused most frequently by