Spring 2024

When a student has awareness of phonemes in words, syllables, onset-rimes segments, and spelling he or she is demonstrating

• Phonological awareness

• Phonics mastery

• Phonemic awareness

• Structural awareness

Which of the following students would benefit most from phonics instruction?

• A pre-school student who knows the alphabet but cannot recognize phonemes in words

• A kindergarten student who can recognize picture and associate them with words

• A first-grade student who has memorized 100 sight words but cannot decode medium-frequency words in text

• A third-grade student who has automaticity but struggles with low-frequency, academic words in text

Which level of language is most associated with the following types of difficulty: leaving off word endings or confusing them, lack of knowledge of prefix or suffix meaning?

• semantics

• orthography

• morphology

• discourse

Which phonological task is most associated with learning phonics?

• syllable awareness

• phonemic awareness

• word awareness

• rhyming awareness

Which two types of syllables are most commonly found in words?

• closed and open

• closed and vowel-consonant-e

• open and vowel team

• vowel and vowel-r

Which of the following is NOT suggested as an appropriate order in the scope and sequence for developing fluency skills?

• connected text, word parts, words

• letter naming, letter-sound correspondences, word parts

• phrases, sentences, connected text

• letter-sound correspondences, words, connected text

Students who enter kindergarten with limited academic language skills but strong social skills will develop academic language skills on their own as long as they become engaged during peer discussions.

• true

• false

A lack of background knowledge is the main reason why most students have difficulty comprehending while reading text or listening to read aloud.

• true

• false

Teaching young students how to categorize items, pictures, or words is a first step towards teaching them how to identify main ideas in text.

• true

• false

Which of the following is NOT correct?

• Retell and recount are similar; students explain back what they have heard or read in their own words.

• Retell and summary are similar in that students use their own words to explain back what they remember.

• Summary is different from retell because students primarily focus on the main ideas for a summary.

• Retell and summary are the same; the only difference is grade level ability.