Foundations of Reading Review

Olivia, Charlotte, and Mason are in a spelling competition. They come across words that are spelled the same but sound different and have different meanings, like bass/bass; live/live; tears/tears. What are these types of words called?

• Homograph

• Homonym

• Homophone

• Homolingo

James heard Lily say 'hole' and Jackson say 'whole'. He also heard Lily say 'dough' and Jackson say 'doe'. He noticed that these words sound the same but are spelled differently and have different meanings. What are such words called?

• Homograph

• Homonym

• Homophone

• Homolingo

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?

• Homograph

• Homonym

• Homophone

• Homolingo

Benjamin is learning about the combination of sounds in our language that have meaning, such as prefixes, suffixes, and roots. What is this concept called?

• phonics

• phonological awareness

• morpheme

• phonemic awareness

• Evelyn has a cat named Nora. When she talks about more than one, she says 'Nora's'. When Aiden teaches, he says 'teaches'. What is this change in words to indicate number, mood, tense, or possession called?

• Derivational

• Inflectional

• Root

• Base

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?

• Derivational

• Inflectional

• Root

• Base

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

• alphabetic priniciple

• phonics

• phonological awareness

• phonemic awareness

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?

• alphabetic priniciple

• phonics

• phonological awareness

• phonemic awareness

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?

• alphabetic priniciple

• phonics

• phonological awareness

• phonemic awareness

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?

• alphabetic priniciple

• phonics

• phonological awareness

• phonemic awareness