Oral Language and Reading Skills Quiz

What is oral language?

• The ability to hear sounds

• The ability to write words

• The ability to speak and understand spoken language

• The ability to analyze stories

Listening to a friend tell a story and retelling it is an activity that builds oral language skills.

• True

• False

Describe one classroom activity you could use to help students develop their oral language skills.

Phonemic awareness is the ability to understand the meaning of words.

• True

• False

Which activity helps build phonemic awareness?

• Identifying rhyming words in a poem

• Reading silently

• Drawing pictures

• Counting words in a sentence

Match each term with its definition.
1. Phoneme

2. Syllable

3. Onset

4. Rime

• A. The initial consonant sound of a syllable

• B. The smallest unit of sound in a word

• C. The vowel and remaining sounds in a syllable

• D. A unit of sound in a word, containing one vowel sound

Define decoding in the context of reading.

Why is decoding an important skill for early readers?

• It helps them guess words in a sentence

• It allows them to read new words independently

• It encourages them to draw more pictures

• It helps them to listen better

Covering the “e” at the end of a word to change the vowel sound is a decoding strategy for helping students with silent “e” words.

• True

• False

What is reading comprehension?

• Understanding and interpreting what is read

• Reading aloud quickly

• Spelling words correctly

• Memorizing definitions