Final Exam Review: Foundations of Literacy

The conscious awareness of the individual speech sounds in spoken syllables and the ability to consciously manipulate those sounds.

• Phonics

• Phonemic Awareness

• Orthographic Mapping

• Phonological Awareness

The smallest unit of speech sounds used to build words.

• Digraph

• Phoneme

• Grapheme

• Morpheme

Connecting speech sounds to the alphabetic symbols that represent those speech sounds; also used as a descriptor for code-based instruction.

• Phonological Awareness

• Orthographic Mapping

• Phonemic Awareness

• Phonics

A letter or letter combination that spells a phoneme; can be one, two, three, or four letters in English.

• Grapheme

• Morpheme

• Phoneme

• Blend

The mental process used to store words for immediate and effortless retrieval. It requires phonemic awareness, letter-sound knowledge, and a mechanism for sight word learning.

• Phonological Awareness

• Orthographic Mapping

• Phonics

• Phonemic Awareness

Conscious awareness of ALL levels of the speech sound system.

• Fluency

• Phonemic Awareness

• Phonics

• Phonolgical Awareness

Which of the following is the correct Simple View of Reading model?

• Fluency + Language Comprehension = Reading Comprehension

• Vocabulary x Phonological Awareness = Reading Comprehension

• Word Recognition x Language Comprehension = Reading Comprehension

• Phonological Awareness x Language Comprehension = Reading Comprehension

How many phonemes in the word MIX?

• 1

• 4

• 3

• 2

How many phonemes in the word WONDER?

• 5

• 6

• 2

• 3

About how many phonemes are in the English language?

• It's a mystery!

• 50

• 26

• 44