Midterm

EEX 3113 – Midterm

SHORT ANSWERS (10 Points)

Select any TEN (10) concepts and define or describe each one in 1 paragraph or less.

Each response is worth 1 point: a total of 10 points for this section.

1. Dyslexia

2. Speech sound disorders

3. Developmental language disorders

4. Explicit Instruction

5. Schwa sound

6. The Science of Reading

7. Morphology

8. Phoneme-Grapheme Mapping

9. Structured Literacy

10 Joint Book Reading

11. Sight words

12. Elkonin boxes

13. Orthography

14. Phoneme

15. Grapheme

ESSAYS (5 points)

Question #1 is worth 3 points; Question # 2 and 3 are worth 1 point each.

Briefly answer each question but be thorough. It doesn’t have to be a whole page or even multiple paragraphs, just ensure the entire question has been answered.

1. (A) Describe the difference between speech sound disorders and developmental language disorders.

(B) Using the vowel pattern strategies learned in this course, identify the type of vowel pattern found in the following words:

Sample response: cat; closed pattern

1) fish

2) me

3) blue

4) foil

5) like

6) horn

7) cable

8) loud

9) suit

(C) Using the syllabication strategies learned in this course, divide these real and pseudo-words into syllables.

Sample response: professor; pro-fes-sor

1. entertain

2. comprehend

3. porcupine

4. carbohydrate

5. poodle

6. accumulate

7. vunhip

8. mocate

9. bemonshep

10. demarkable

11. intrepid

12. accuborate

2. Briefly compare Phonological Awareness and Phonemic Awareness. Include at least three (3) specific skills for each one.

3. Describe the Simple View of Reading and Scarborough’s Reading Rope and explain how reading is language based.