Foundations of Reading Review

Front

What are words that are spelled the same but sound different and have different meanings, like bass/bass; live/live; tears/tears, called?

Back

Homograph

Front

What are words called that sound the same but are spelled differently and have different meanings, such as 'hole' and 'whole'?

Back

Homophone

Front

Evelyn, Aria, and Priya are discussing words that sound the same and are spelled the same but have different meanings, like 'rose' and 'ring'. What are these words called?

Back

Homonym

Front

What is the concept called that refers to the combination of sounds in our language that have meaning, such as prefixes, suffixes, and roots?

Back

morpheme

Front

What is the change in words to indicate number, mood, tense, or possession called?

Back

Inflectional

Front

Avery, Mia, and Grace are studying linguistics. They come across words where the meaning or grammatical structure changes (hard to hardly, pure to impure, help to helper). What type of morphological change is this?

Back

Derivational

Front

Samuel is learning about the concept that letters and letter patterns represent the sounds of spoken language. What is this concept called?

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alphabetic principle

Front

Rohan, Daniel, and Grace are learning about an instructional approach that matches the sound of our language to the symbols (graphemes/letters). What is this approach called?

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phonics

Front

Mason is a teacher who wants to help his students develop the understanding that language can be broken into components. What skill is he trying to teach them?

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phonological awareness

Front

James, Zoe, and Noah are learning about a subset of phonological awareness that allows for the understanding that words can be broken down into phonemes and from there manipulated. What is this called?

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phonemic awareness