Foundations of Reading Practice Test - Multiple-Choice Questions

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As students begin to read, the ability to blend phonemes orally contributes to their reading development primarily because it prepares students to:

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combine letter-sounds to decode words.

Front

Which word requires the highest level of skill for orally segmenting phonemes? Options: stamp, catch, fudge, chase.

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stamp

Front

Which task requires the most advanced level of skill along the phonological awareness continuum?

Back

orally segmenting the phonemes in the word chimp and then substituting /ŏ/ for /ĭ/ to make a new word, chomp

Front

After mastering the Say It and Move It activity with plain blocks, what strategy should a teacher use next to build children's phonemic awareness?

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Exchanging the plain blocks for alphabet letter blocks and then helping the children do the Say It and Move It activity with relevant letter blocks, using pairs of words that have two and three phonemes (e.g., go, goat)

Front

In which line in the table is a word accurately matched to the number of phonemes the word contains?

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Line 2

Front

How does the activity of listening to and repeating words like 'mop' as /m/ and [ǒp], and 'take' as /t/ and [āk] promote children's phonological awareness?

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Promoting their awareness of each phoneme in a spoken word.

Front

How does a prekindergarten teacher reading a storybook to the class, while pointing to the line of print, primarily contribute to children's emergent reading development?

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Developing their awareness of left-to-right directionality.

Front

Having kindergarten children practice tracing the letters of the alphabet in sand is most appropriate for children who need additional support in:

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developing letter-formation skills.

Front

What is the likely outcome of kindergarteners writing their own captions beneath their drawings?

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The children's grasp of the alphabetic principle will be reinforced as they apply phonetic spelling.

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A kindergarten teacher is reading a big book to a group of children. The teacher periodically points to the beginning consonant of selected words and accentuates its initial phoneme as the teacher reads the word aloud. What is the teacher's practice most likely to reinforce?

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awareness of letter-sound correspondences.